戦後五〇年におけるマス・メディア産業の変容(<特集>戦後五〇年 : 連続と不連続)

抄録

Regarding the historical evolution of Japanese mass media industries after defeat in World War II, the half century since the year 1945 may be divided into four periods as follows: the first is from 1945 to the end of the 1950s; the second includes all of the 1960s and the first three years of the 1970s up until the Oil Crisis; the third spans the long stagnation which continued to the middle of the 1980s, and finally the fourth, which came with the bubble economy, continues after its bursting, showing drastic changes in mass media industries in the face of the multimedia age. Each of these periods has given many different characteristics to the substructure of Japanese newspapers and brordcasting, Also, the quality of Japanese jounalism has been influenced profoundly by these industrial changes.