Place of Media Power
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The Place of Media Power focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between ordinary people and the media. Booknews Couldry (media and communications, Goldsmiths College, U. of London, England) examines how ordinary people interact with media institutions in order to explore the concentration of symbolic power in media, how it is legitimated and naturalized, and the impact media has on society. Drawing on perspectives from anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology, and geography as well as media studies, Couldry presents two detailed case studies, both set in England: the visitors to the Granada Studios Tour, home of a long-running soap opera, and animal-rights protestors in Brightlingsea. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
List of platesAcknowledgementsPt. 1A new theory of media power1Locating media power32Charting media territory233Media power: some hidden dimensions39Pt. 2Media pilgrims: on the set of Coronation StreetGeneral introduction654On the actual Street695The reality of the fiction886Playing with boundaries104Pt. 3Media witnesses: two decades of protestGeneral introduction1237Brightlingsea: the de-naturalisation of the media frame1268Acting within the media frame155Pt. 4The future of the media frame?9Conclusion and perspectives beyond177App.: methodological issues196Notes205Bibliography213Index231
