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| Timeline | |
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| How to use this book | |
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| Publisher's acknowledgements | |
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| About the authors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reading theory | |
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| What is theory? | |
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| What is reading? | |
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| Key thinkers and schools of thought | |
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| Liberal press theory | |
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| Reading: Mill, J.S. (1997 [1859]) 'Of the liberty of thought and discussion', in Bromley, M. and O'Malley, T. (eds) A Journalism Reader, London: Routledge, pp. 22-6. | |
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| F.R. Leavis | |
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| Reading: Leavis, F.R. (1930) Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture, Cambridge: Minority Press. | |
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| The Frankfurt school | |
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| Reading: Horkheimer, M. and Adorno, T.W. (2002 [1944]) Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical fragments, translated by Jephcott, E., Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Excerpt from Chapter 4, 'The culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception', pp. 94-8. | |
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| Harold D. Lasswell | |
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| Reading: Lasswell, H.D. (1948) 'The structure and function of communication in society', in Bryson, L. (ed.) The Communication of Ideas, New York: Harper and Brothers | |
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| The Columbia school | |
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| Reading: Lazarsfeld, P.F. and Merton, R.K. (1948) 'Mass communication, popular taste and organized social action', in Bryson, L. (ed.) The Communication of Ideas, New York: Harper and Brothers, pp. 95-118. | |
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| C. Wright Mills: Mass society theory | |
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| Reading: Mills, C.W. (1956) 'The mass society', in Mills, C.W. (ed.) The Power Elite, London: Oxford University Press, pp. 298-324. | |
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| The Toronto school | |
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| Reading: Innis, H.A. (1951) 'The bias of communication', in Innis, H.A., The Bias of Communication, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 33-60. | |
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| The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies | |
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| Reading: Hall, S. (1980c) 'Encoding/Decoding', in Culture, Media, Language: Working papers in cultural studies, 1972-9, Hall, S., Hobson, D., Lowe, A. and Willis, P. (eds), London: Hutchinson, pp. 128-38. | |
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| Approaches to media theory | |
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| Political economy | |
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| Reading: Herman, E.S. (1995a) 'Media in the US political economy', in Downing, J., Mohammadi, A. and Sreberny-Mohammadi, A. (eds) Questioning the Media: A critical introduction, 2nd edition, London: Sage, pp. 77-93. | |
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| Public sphere | |
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| Reading: Habermas, J. (1974 [1964]) 'The public sphere: an encyclopedia article', New German Critique 3 (1): 49-55. | |
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| Media effects | |
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| Reading: Gauntlett, D. (2005) 'Ten things wrong with the media "effects" model', Theory.org.uk: the Media Theory Site, www.meory.org.voli/tentMngs.html. | |
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| Structuralism | |
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| Reading: Todorov, T. (1990 [1978]) Genres in Discourse, translated by Porter, C, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 27-38. | |
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| Feminist media theory | |
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| Reading: van Zoonen, L. (1994) Feminist Media Studies, London: Sage, pp. 11-18, 21-8. | |
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| Cultural theory | |
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| Reading: Williams, R. (1961) The Long Revolution, Orchard Parle Broadview Press, pp. 57-70. | |
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| New Media | |
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| Reading: Jenkins, H. (2006) Convergence Culture: Where old and new media collide, New York and London: New York University Press, pp. 1-10. | |
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| Postmodernism | |
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| Reading: Baudrillard, J. (1994 [1981]) 'The implosion of meaning in the media', in Simulacra and Simulation, translated by Glaser, S.F., Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 79-86. | |
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| The information society | |
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| Reading: Webster, F. (2002) Theories of the Information Society, 2nd edition, London: Routledge, pp. 8-21. | |
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| Media theory in context | |
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| Production | |
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| Reading: Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) The Cultural Industries, 2nd edition, London: Sage, pp. 3-8. | |
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| Texts | |
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| Reading: Barthes, R. (1977 [1967]) 'The death of the author', in Image Music Text, translated by Heath, S., London: Fontana, pp. 142-8. | |
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| Audiences | |
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| Reading: Ang, I. (1991) 'Audience-as-market and audience-as-public', in Desperately Seeking the Audience, London: Routledge, pp. 26-32. | |
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| Audiences as producers | |
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| Reading: Shirky, C. (2008) Here Comes Everybody: How change happens when people come together, London: Penguin, pp. 55-66. | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |