Mass Media and Society

by James Curran; Michael Gurevitch

• ISBN13: 9780340732014
• ISBN10: 0340732016
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-05
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers

Summary

This classic textbook, written by distinguished academics from around the world, has now reached its third edition. It provides an invaluable guided tour through key areas: theories of media and society; studies of media organization; and studies of media, culture, and ideology. Critical overviews are combined with original case studies. To keep pace with the rapidly change field, the majority of essays in this third edition are new. These include overviews of media and society from the perspectives of class, gender, and ethnicity that plug media studies into new developments in the social sciences. This new edition also includes essays focusing on changes in the media: the emergence of the Internet, the fragmentation of political communications, and the rise of globalization.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	v
Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction to the Third Edition	1	(6)
Section I: Mass Media and Society: General Perspectives
Reconstructing the Ruined Tower: Contemporary Communications and Questions of Class	7	(20)
Graham Murdock
Recent Developments in Feminist Communication Theory: Difference, Public Sphere, Body and Technology	27	(17)
Andrea L. Press
Race, Ethnicity and the Segmentation of Media Markets	44	(26)
Oscar H. Gandy, Jr
Culture, Communications and Political Economy	70	(23)
Peter Golding
Graham Murdock
The Global and the Local in International Communications	93	(27)
Annabelle Sreberny
Rethinking Media and Democracy	120	(35)
James Curran
Rethinking the Study of Political Communication	155	(20)
Jay G. Blumler
Michael Gurevitch
Section II: Media Production
The Sociology of News Production Revisited (Again)	175	(26)
Michael Schudson
Entertainment	201	(17)
Simon Frith
Commercialism and Professionalism in the American News Media	218	(20)
Daniel C. Hallin
In Defence of Objectivity Revisited	238	(17)
Judith Lichtenberg
The Return to Cultural Production. Case Study: Fashion Journalism	255	(13)
Angela McRobbie
From Dead Trees to Lie Wires: The Internet's Challenge to the Traditional Newspaper	268	(27)
Colin Sparks
Section III: Mediation of Meaning
National Prisms of a Global `Media Event'	295	(15)
Chin-Chuan Lee
Joseph Man Chan
Zhongdang Pan
Clement Y. K. So
Media, Citizenship and Civic Culture	310	(19)
Peter Dahlgren
Globalization and Culture Identities	329	(17)
Keith Negus
Patria Roman-Velazquez
No Gain, No Game? Media and Sport	346	(16)
David Rowe
Representation and Popular Culture: Semiotics and the Construction of Meaning	362	(14)
Christine Geraghty
`Influence': The Contested Core of Media Research	376	(22)
John Corner
Index	398