Mass media and society
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Mass media and society
Arnold , Distributed exclusively in the USA by St Martin's Press, 1996
2nd ed
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work provides a survey of mass communication and popular culture. In this edition articles have been updated and a number of new articles have been commissioned including Simon Firth on the entertainment industry, Christine Geraghty on popular culture and resisitance, Janet Wasko on the sociology of Disney, and Daniel Hallin on the American media system and the marketplace. The book seeks to reflect the changing emphases in the study of mass communication and society.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Mass media and society - general perspectives: culture, communications, and political economy
- feminist perspectives on the media
- postmodernism and television
- mass media and the public interest - towards a framework of norms for media performance
- mass media and democracy revisited
- media changes and social change
- linkages and junctures. Part 2 Media production: the sociology of news production revisited
- entertainment
- the global and the local in international communications
- the globalization of electronic journalism
- in defence of objectivity (revisited)
- commercialism and professionalism in the american news media. Part 3 Mediation of meaning: representation and popular culture
- reappraising reception
- aims, concepts and methods
- on the continuing problem of media effects
- gender and/in media consumption
- "understanding the Disney universe".
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