Academic publication
A Gazette in Metre: William Elderton and the Birth of Mass Media
Nassima AMIROUCHE
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2026-10-07
- Pays de publication
- Algérie
- Edition
- 1re édition SARAHMED, 2026
- Language
- Anglais
- ISBN
- 978-9969-17-042-9
- Pages
- 142
- Format
- 16 × 24 cm
- Legal deposit date
- 2026-10-28
- Classification THEMA
- JBCT4 — Études des médias : journalisme
- Subject Area
- Lettres et Langues Étrangères
Keywords
William Elderton · broadside ballads · early modern journalism · mass media · Elizabethan print culture
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Abstract
This book reconsiders William Elderton as a formative figure in news culture. Focusing on the sixteenth-century broadside ballad, it examines how cheap print, song, woodcut imagery, circulation networks, regulation, and performance combined to create an early mass medium. It analyses Elderton's strategies for establishing credibility through names, dates, locations, visual evidence, providential interpretation, and claims of immediacy, then tests these methods across a varied corpus of political, prodigy, civic, elegiac, moral, and comic ballads. The study situates Elderton within the emergence of a commercial news culture that anticipated later journalistic practices while remaining rooted in Elizabethan print and oral traditions.
Authors and contributors
Nassima AMIROUCHE
Suggested citation
Nassima AMIROUCHE. A Gazette in Metre: William Elderton and the Birth of Mass Media. SARAHMED Éditions, 2026. ISBN : 978-9969-17-042-9
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© 2026 Nassima AMIROUCHE. Tous droits réservés.