Mass Media and Society

Name: Mass Media and Society
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ISBN: 9780340884997

ISBN-10: 0340884991

ISBN-13: 9780340884997

Edition: 4th 2005 (Revised)

Authors: James Curran, Michael Gurevitch

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Over the past 15 years, Mass Media and Society has established itself as a 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: Acirc;theories of media and society Acirc;the study of media organisations Acirc;debates about culture, ideology and democracy. The fourth edition has been fully updated and contains 13 new chapters on key topics, ranging from post-feminism to war journalism as entertainment. Above all, it offers a number of alternative views on the changing role of the media in the era of globalisation, new communication technology, the 'war on terror',…

Book details

List price: $44.00
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 8/26/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Contributors


Introduction to the Fourth Edition


Acknowledgements



Media and Society: General Perspectives



Critical Debates in Internet Studies: Reflections on an Emerging Field




Feminism Without Men: Feminist Media Studies in a Post-Feminist Age




Representation, Reality and Popular Culture: Semiotics and the Construction of Meaning




Culture, Communications and Political Economy




Globalization and National Media Systems: Mapping Interactions in Policies, Markets and Formats




Rethinking the Study of Political Communication




Mediations of Democracy




Media Systems, Organizations and Cultures



The Production of Media Entertainment




Four Approaches to the Sociology of News




The Culture of Journalism




Comparing Media Systems




Media Policy in the Middle East: A Reappraisal




Media and Democracy Without Party Competition




Selling Neo-Imperial Conflicts: Television and US Public Diplomacy




Media Representations, Mediations and Influence



The Information Society Debate Revisited




Comparative Ethnography of New Media




National Prisms of a Global 'Media Event'




Women and Race in Feminist Media Research: Intersections, Ideology and Invisibility




Viewing and Reviewing the Audience: Fashions in Communication Research




Political Communication in a Changing World



Index