Mass Media and Society
This widely used study has become the leading international textbook on the media. Written by distinguished academics from around the world, the book provides an invaluable guided tour through three key areas of debate: DT theories of media and society DT the study of media organizations DT debates about culture, ideology and democracy. This fourth edition has been fully updated and contains 13 new chapters on key topics, ranging from post-feminism to war journalism as entertainment. Above...
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The third edition of this classic textbook provides an invaluable guided tour through key areas: theories of media and society; studies of media organization; and studies of media, culture, and ideology.
1Critical debates in Internet studies : reflections on an emerging field92Feminism without men : feminist media studies in a post-feminist age293Representation, reality and popular culture : semiotics and the construction of meaning464Culture, communications and political economy605Globalization and national media systems : mapping interactions in policies, markets and formats846Rethinking the study of political communication1047Mediations of democracy1228The production of media entertainment1539Four approaches to the sociology of news17210The culture of journalism19811Comparing media systems21512Media policy in the Middle East : a reappraisal23413Media and democracy without party competition25114Selling neo-imperial conflicts : television and US public diplomacy27115The information society debate revisited28716Comparative ethnography of new media30317National prisms of a global 'media event'32018Women and race in feminist media research : intersections, ideology and invisibility33619Viewing and reviewing the audience : fashions in communication research35620Political communication in a changing world375
\ From the Publisher\ "The theme of globalization is of paramount importance, with various contributors describing its positive & negative impacts in terms of media access & influence."—Sociological Abstracts "An original contribution to media studies. Beautifully organized, well written and incisive."—James Carey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\ "The best collection of current thinking in the field."—Elihu Katz, Israel Institute of Applied Social Research\ "A valuable and stimulating collection for students of the mass media—a very worthy successor to the editors' earlier influential Mass Communication and Society."—David Morley, Goldsmiths" College, University of London "An original contribution to media studies. Beautifully organized, well written and incisive. Professor James Carey, Columbia University, USA\ \
