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1 online resource (xiii, 441 pages) |
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Living in a mediated world -- The debate over media effects -- Cultivation and mainstreaming -- The psychology of cultivation -- The mean and scary world -- Sex and sexuality -- Death and suicide -- The world according to MTV -- Portrayal of groups -- Images of America -- The unreal war -- Virtual reality: virtual or real? -- Communicating unreality |
| Summary |
"Communicating Unreality reviews the images and meanings of our mass-mediated world. With careful attention to the integration of news and entertainment, fact and fiction, and event and story, author Gabriel Weimann examines our symbolic environment, in which reality and fiction are almost inseparable. Through discussion of mass-mediated images of people, cultures, war, love, sex, death, community and identity, we learn that there often exists a large gap between reality and reconstruction of "realities" as communicated by the mass media."--Jacket |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-425) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Mass media -- Influence.
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Mass media -- United States.
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Mass media -- Psychological aspects
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Reality.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Mass media
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Mass media -- Influence
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Mass media -- Psychological aspects
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Mass media -- Social aspects
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Reality
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Rhetorik
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Beeinflussung
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Massenmedien
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Wirkung
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Kommunikation
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Gesellschaft
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Massamedia.
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Invloed.
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Werkelijkheid.
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781452263540 |
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145226354X |
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