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9780340884997

Mass Media and Society

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  • ISBN13:

    9780340884997

  • ISBN10:

    0340884991

  • Edition: 4th
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-08-26
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
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Summary

This widely used study has become the 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: DT theories of media and society DT the study of media organizations DT debates about culture, ideology and democracy. This 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 globalization, new communication technology, the war on terror, the advance of women and increasing economic inequality. James Curran is a Professor of Communications at Goldsmith's College, University of London, UK. Michael Gurevitch is a former Professor, College of Journalism, University of Maryland, USA. This widely used study has become the 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: DT theories of media and society DT the study of media organizations DT debates about culture, ideology and democracy. This 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 globalization, new communication technology, the war on terror, the advance of women and increasing economic inequality. "The theme of globalization is of paramount importance, with various contributors describing its positive & negative impacts in terms of media access & influence."Sociological Abstracts "An original contribution to media studies. Beautifully organized, well written and incisive."James Carey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The best collection of current thinking in the field."Elihu Katz, Israel Institute of Applied Social Research "A valuable and stimulating collection for students of the mass mediaa very worthy successor to the editors' earlier influential Mass Communication and Society."David Morley, Goldsmiths" College, University of London "An original contribution to media studies. Beautifully organized, well written and incisive. Professor James Carey, Columbia University, USA

Author Biography

James Curran is a Professor of Communications at Goldsmith's College, University of London, UK.
 
Michael Gurevitch is a former Professor, College of Journalism, University of Maryland, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Introduction to the Fourth Edition 1(4)
Acknowledgements 5(4)
Section I: Media and Society: General Perspectives
Critical Debates in Internet Studies: Reflections on an Emerging Field
9(20)
Sonia Livingstone
Feminism Without Men: Feminist Media Studies in a Post-Feminist Age
29(17)
Karen Boyle
Representation, Reality and Popular Culture: Semiotics and the Construction of Meaning
46(14)
Christine Geraghty
Culture, Communications and Political Economy
60(24)
Graham Murdock
Peter Golding
Globalization and National Media Systems: Mapping Interactions in Policies, Markets and Formats
84(20)
Kalyani Chadha
Anandam Kavoori
Rethinking the Study of Political Communication
104(18)
Jay G. Blumler
Michael Gurevitch
Mediations of Democracy
122(31)
James Curran
Section II: Media Systems, Organizations and Cultures
The Production of Media Entertainment
153(19)
David Hesmondhalgh
Four Approaches to the Sociology of News
172(26)
Michael Schudson
The Culture of Journalism
198(17)
Barbie Zelizer
Comparing Media Systems
215(19)
Daniel C. Hallin
Paolo Mancini
Media Policy in the Middle East: A Reappraisal
234(17)
Naomi Sakr
Media and Democracy Without Party Competition
251(20)
Robert M. Entman
Selling Neo-Imperial Conflicts: Television and US Public Diplomacy
271(16)
Daya Kishan Thussu
Section III: Media Representations, Mediations and Influence
The Information Society Debate Revisited
287(16)
Nicholas Garnham
Comparative Ethnography of New Media
303(17)
Daniel Miller
Don Slater
National Prisms of a Global `Media Event'
320(16)
Chin-Chuan Lee
Joseph Man Chan
Zhongdang Pan
Clement Y. K. So
Women and Race in Feminist Media Research: Intersections, Ideology and Invisibility
336(20)
Linda Aldoory
Shawn J. Parry-Giles
Viewing and Reviewing the Audience: Fashions in Communication Research
356(19)
Tamar Liebes
Political Communication in a Changing World
375(19)
Peter Dahlgren
Michael Gurevitch
Index 394

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