Afterword: 2014 and after: The Changing Anatomy of Civil Society and the Media in Scotland. Issue 1 (February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McCrone, David
• Is Part Of: Scottish affairs. Volume 27:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 110
• Page End: 114
• Publication Date: 2018-02
• Subjects: Scottish national press -- Home Rule -- social media; Scotland -- Politics and government -- Periodicals; 320.941105
• DOI: 10.3366/scot.2018.0229
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0966-0356

Abstract

Abstract : The Scottish press and media have been credited with keeping alive and amplifying Scottish national identity, and with it, the Scottish Home Rule project. And yet, the Scottish press has undergone a massive decline in sales and readership in the last fifty years. This brief commentary addresses the apparent anomaly that the press, the ostensible carriers of the Scottish political project, are no longer vital to its development in the 21 st century.