| Description |
408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Reconstructing the ruined tower: contemporary communications and questions of class / Graham Murdock -- Recent developments in feminist communication theory: difference, public sphere, body and technology / Andrea L. Press -- Race, ethnicity and the segmentation of media markets / Oscar H. Gandy -- Culture, communications and political economy / Peter Golding and Graham Murdock -- The global and the local in international communications / Annabelle Sreberny -- Rethinking media and democracy / James Curran -- Rethinking the study of political communication / Jay G. Blumer and Michael Gurevitch -- The sociology of news production revisited (again) / Michael Schudson -- Entertainment / Simon Firth |
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Con't. -- Commercialism and professionalism in the American news media / Daniel C. Hallin -- In defence of objectivity revisited / Judith Lichtenberg -- The return to cultural production. Case study: fashion journalism / Angela McRobbie -- From dead trees to live wires: the Internet's challenge to the traditional newspaper / Colin Sparks -- National prisms of a global 'media event' / Chin-Chuan Lee [and others] -- Media, citizenship and civic culture / Peter Dahlgren -- Globalization and cultural identities / Keith Negus and Patria Roman-Velazquez -- No gain, no game? Media and sport / David Rowe -- Representation and popular culture: semiotics and the construction of meaning / Christie Geraghty -- 'Influence': the contested core of media research / John Corner |
| Summary |
In this well established text, a team of international scholars give their thoughts on mass media and culture. The book also seeks to reflect changing emphasis in the study of mass communication and popular culture |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1996 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mass media and culture.
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Mass media -- Political aspects.
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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| Author |
Gurevitch, Michael.
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Curran, James.
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| LC no. |
2001265702 |
| ISBN |
0340732016 paperback |
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0340732008 : |
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