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Author McNair, Brian, 1959-

Title Cultural chaos : journalism, news, and power in a globalised world / Brian McNair
Published Oxon, England ; New York : Routledge, 2006

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Description xxi, 248 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Cultural chaos and the globalisation of journalism -- Materialism and the media -- From control to chaos -- The politics of chaos: democracy, media, and the decline of deference -- Cultural chaos and the end of ideology -- Cultural capitalism and the commodification of dissent -- Mapping the global public sphere, I: transnational satellite news -- II: online journalism and the blogosphere -- From blogosphere to public sphere? -- Global news culture and authoritarianism -- Democracy and hyper-democracy -- Controlling chaos -- Conclusion and postscript: cultural chaos and the critical project
Summary "Cultural Chaos explores the changing relationship between journalism and power in an increasingly globalised news culture. It examines the processes of cultural, geographic and political dissolution which are a feature of the post-Cold War era, in the context of global ideological realignment, rapid evolution in information and communication technologies, and an increasingly anarchic cultural marketplace. It investigates the impact of these trends on domestic and international journalism, and on political processes in democratic and authoritarian societies across the world. It also assesses the implications of these trends for media scholarship."
"With examples drawn from media coverage of the war on terror and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the London Underground bombings, students and teachers will find in Cultural Chaos an overview of the evolution of the sociology of journalism, a critical review of current sociological thinking within media studies, and an argument for revision and renewal of the paradigms which have dominated the field since the early twentieth century. Separate chapters are devoted to the rise of the blogosphere and satellite television news."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-239) and index
Subject Journalism -- Social aspects.
Broadcast journalism.
Government and the press.
LC no. 2005029925
ISBN 9780415339131
9780415339124
041533912X (hardback : alk. paper)
0415339138
Other Titles Cultural chaos