| Description |
400 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction - Sandra J Ball-Rokeach and Muriel G Cantor -- The Media and the Social Fabric -- Part One: Sociological Inquiry Into The Media And Mass Communication: Historical And Theoretical Origins -- Mass Communication Rediscovered - Charles R Wright -- Its Past and Future in American Sociology -- Reflections on the Lost Vision of Communication Theory - Thelma McCormack -- The Menu of Media Research - Michael Schudson -- Part Two: Media And Social Process -- The Information Society - James R Beniger -- Technological and Economic Origins -- The Flow of Communications into the Home - W Russell Neuman and Ithiel de Sola Pool -- Linking Culture and Other Societal Systems - Karl Erik Rosengren -- The Mass Media in Earthquake Warning - Ralph H Turner and Denise H Paz -- Media System Dependency Theory - Peter L Hirschburg, Donald A Dillman, and Sandra J Ball-Rokeach -- Response to the Eruption of Mount St Helens -- Part Three: Media Organizations And Their Audiences -- Social Constraints and the Production of an Alternative Medium - Herman Gray -- The Case of Community Radio -- The Organizational Environment of the Motion Picture - James J Parker -- Censorship of Criminal Characters, 1930-1950 -- Hollywood Filmmaking and Audience Image - Robert Kapsis -- The Commodification of Sport - John L Stewart -- The Political Struggle for Prime Time - Kathryn Montgomery -- Culture by the Millions - Victoria Billings -- Audience as Innovator -- Audience Composition and Television Content - Muriel G Cantor and Joel M Cantor -- The Mass Audience Revisited -- Beyond Mass Culture and Class Culture - John P Robinson and Edward L Fink -- Subcultural Differences in the Structure of Music Preferences -- Part Four: Media And Political Conflict And Change -- The 'Form' of Substance - Jeffrey C Alexander -- The Senate Watergate Hearings as Ritual -- Awareness of Public Opinion and School Desegregation Protest - D Garth Taylor -- Some Observations on the Long-Range Effects of Television - Gladys Engel and Kurt Lang -- Changing and Stabilizing Political Behavior and Beliefs - Sandra J Ball-Rokeach, Milton Rokeach, and Joel W Grube -- Part Four: Media Content -- The Reporting of Social Science Research in the Media - Elanor Singer and Phyllis Endreny -- Ideologies of Femininity - Andrea L Press -- Film and Popular Consciousness in the Postwar Era -- Format and Formula in Prime-Time TV - Ann Swidler, Melissa Rapp, and Yasemin Soysal -- ̀Punk' and Middle-Class Values - Philip Lamy and Jack Levin -- a Content Analysis -- Conclusion - Sandra J Ball-Rokeach and Muriel J Cantor -- Going Beyond Contemporary Media Theory and Research |
| Analysis |
Communication |
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Key item |
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Mass media |
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Mass media - Sociological perspectives |
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Overseas item |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 354-377 |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Communication -- Social aspects -- United States -- Congresses.
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Communication -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Mass media -- United States -- Congresses.
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Mass media -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-
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Ball-Rokeach, Sandra.
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Cantor, Muriel G.
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| LC no. |
85027871 |
| ISBN |
0803925816 |
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0803925824 (paperback) |
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