Communication Theory and Research

by Denis McQuail

• ISBN13: 9781412918336
• ISBN10: 1412918332
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-12
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

This exciting collection of papers represents some of the finest communications research published during the last decade. To mark the 20th anniversary of the European Journal of Communication, a leading international journal, the editors have selected 21 papers, all of which make significant and valuable interventions in the field of media and communications. The volume is prefaced with an introduction by the editors and will be a central research text for scholars in this field.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Preface	ix
Introduction and Overview	1	(12)
Denis McQuail
SECTION ONE: INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION	13	(40)
Research into international television flows: a methodological contribution	13	(10)
Preben Sepstrup
The mythology about globalization	23	(13)
Marjorie Ferguson
The inflow of American television fiction on European broadcasting channels revisited	36	(17)
Els de Bens
Hedwig de Smaele
SECTION TWO: AUDIENCE	53	(36)
Five traditions in search of the audience	53	(18)
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
Karl Erik Rosengren
Resisting American hegemony	71	(18)
Daniel Biltereyst
SECTION THREE: POLICY AND POLITICS	89	(66)
Accountability of media to society: principles and means	89	(14)
Denis McQuail
Who's afraid of infotainment?	103	(15)
Kees Brants
Political communication systems all change: a response to Kees Brants	118	(7)
Jay G. Blumler
`Four mothers': the womb in the public sphere	125	(14)
Dafna Lemish
Inbal Barzel
A critical review and assessment of Herman and Chomsky's `Propaganda Model'	139	(16)
Jeffery Klaehn
SECTION FOUR: JOURNALISM	155	(80)
The sacred side of professional journalism	155	(10)
Thorbjorn Broddason
Telling stories: sociology, journalism and the informed citizen	165	(13)
Peter Golding
Beyond journalism: a profession between information society and civil society	178	(13)
Jo Bardoel
Journalistic codes of ethics in Europe	191	(14)
Tiina Laitila
`Infosuasion' in European newspapers: a case study on the war in Kosovo	205	(15)
Rossella Savarese
News production in contemporary Russia	220	(15)
Olessia Koltsova
SECTION FIVE: MEDIA CULTURE	235	(62)
European soap operas: the diversification of a genre	235	(20)
Tamar Liebes
Sonia Livingstone
Gendering the internet: claims, controversies and cultures	255	(14)
Liesbet van Zoonen
Lifestyle segmentation	269	(14)
Patrick Vyncke
Consumer culture, Islam and the politics of lifestyle: fashion for veiling in contemporary Turkey	283	(14)
Baris Kilicbay
Mutlu Binark
Index	297