This work provides theoretical analysis and historical detail to
reconceptualize the significance of modern journalism from the point of
view of its greatest creation - popular readerships. It traces the links
between journalism, politics and popular culture, showing how liberty,
fraternity and equality are unthinkable without suburbia, sexualization
and kissing. The book also provides a critique of academic and
professional discourses on popular journalism, and provides new bridges
between contemporary journalism and contemporary theory. The work is
illustrated from the popular media new and old.

John Hartley is at Queensland University of Technology, Australia