Week 1 - The Fourth Estate
- Created by: Eleanor Prescott
- Created on: 15-01-15 15:15
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- The Fourth Estate
- Key terms and definitions
- The fourth estate (the media), used to mean newspaper press
- First estate (Lords Spiritual - church), second estate (Lords Temporal - aristocracy), third estate (House of Commons)
- Press as watchdog: nipping on the heels of the powerful
- The radical press: When printing presses first became available to masses - printed own illegal news
- Radical press sadly mostly disappeared now
- The Fifth Estate - new term for online media
- Bit of a catch-all for citizen journalism as well
- The fourth estate (the media), used to mean newspaper press
- Key theorists
- John Stuart Mill (1800s) On Liberty
- John Milton Areopagitica (1608)
- Jurgen Habermas (1929)- the public sphere, coffee houses
- Golden age of the coffee house: 1680-1730
- Key terms and definitions
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