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9780312179861

Media in Society A Brief Introduction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312179861

  • ISBN10:

    0312179863

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2013-07-12
  • Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

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Summary

Explore the stories media tell along with the ones we tell about the media when we describe how it affects us as Media in Society teaches you how to view the media through a critical eye.

Author Biography

Richard Campbell, director of the journalism program at Miami University, is the author of "60 Minutes" and the News: A Mythology for Middle America (1991) and coauthor of Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy (1994). He has written for numerous publications, including Columbia Journalism Review, Journal of Communication, and Media Studies Journal, and he is on the editorial boards of Critical Studies in Mass Communication and Television Quarterly. He holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Joli Jensen is the Hazel Rogers Professor of Communication at the University of Tulsa, where she teaches courses on media, culture and society. She is the author of Is Art Good for Us? Beliefs about High Culture in American Life (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); Redeeming Modernity: Contradictions in Media Criticism; (Sage, 1990) and The Nashville Sound: Authenticity, Commercialization and Country Music (Vanderbilt, 1998) as well as book chapters and research essays on media criticism, communication technologies, communication theories, the social history of the typewriter, and fans and fandom. Dr. Jensen received her PhD in 1985 from Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois. She has also taught at the University of Virginia, and the University of Texas-Austin. You can find out more about her at http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~joli-jensen/

Douglas Gomery is the author of 21 books, and more than 600 articles on the history and economics of the mass media. His book Who Owns the Media? earned the Robert Picard Award as the best economics book by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in 2001. His book Shared Pleasures earned the prize for TV-film book presented by the Lincoln Center Library in 1991. Dr. Gomery continues to research books and articles on the history and economics of the mass media as Resident Scholar at the Library of American Broadcasting at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

Bettina Fabos, an award-winning video maker and former print reporter, is an associate professor of visual communication and interactive media studies at the University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of Wrong Turn on the Information Superhighway: Education and the Commercialized Internet (2004). Her areas of expertise include critical media literacy, Internet commercialization, the role of the Internet in education, and media representations of popular culture. Her work has been published in Library Trends, Review of Educational Research, and Harvard Educational Review. Fabos has also taught at Miami University and has a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.

Julie Frechette is Professor of Communication at Worcester State University, Worcester, MA, where she founded and co-directed the Center for Teaching and Learning. Her book, Developing Media Literacy in Cyberspace: Pedagogy and Critical Learning for the Twenty-First-Century Classroom (Praeger Press, 2002), was among the first to explore the multiple literacies approach for the digital age. She is the author of numerous articles on media literacy and feminism, and has written chapter inclusions for the books Literacy Practices in Late Modernity: Mastering Technological and Cultural Conversion (Hampton Press, 2012), Digital Generations: Children, Young People, and New Media (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006), and Media Literacy: Transforming Curriculum and Teaching (Blackwell Publishing, 2005). She served as an inaugural member of the Editorial Board for The Journal of Media Literacy Education, and was selected by the National Telemedia Council for the special journal series, "Emerging Scholars in Media Literacy."

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Understanding Media in Society

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA FORMS: Using Technology, Democracy

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA CONTENT: The Critical Process

TYPES OF MEDIA CRITICISM

CURRENT ISSUES IN MEDIA CRITICISM

TOWARDS MEDIA LITERACY

Chapter 2: Media Metaphors

MEDIA AS CURRENT EXPERIENCE

MEDIA INFLUENCE METAPHORS

MEDIA AS NARRATORS

Chapter 3: Visual Literacy and the Truth Behind an Image

COMPOSITION: THE VISUAL'S AESTHETIC POWER

SEMIOTICS AND SYMBOLIC MEANING

REALISM: TRUTH AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Chapter 4: Narrative Formulas and the Cycle of Storytelling

HEGEMONY, COMMON SENSE, AND STORYTELLING

DEFINING NARRATIVE FORMS

THE LIMITS OF NARRATIVE

Chapter 5: Political Stories and Media

MEDIA NARRATIVES AND DEMOCRACY

MASS MEDIA'S POLITICAL INFLUENCE

ADVERTISING AND THE CAPITALISM OF POLITICS

CITIZENSHIP AND CHANGE

Chapter 6: News, Culture, and Democracy

A SHORT HISTORY OF JOURNALISM

QUESTIONING OBJECTIVE-STYLE STORYTELLING

REINVENTING JOURNALISM: REPORTING AND THE LIMITS OF STORYTELLING

CONCLUSION: THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM

Chapter 7: Media Economics

MEDIA CORPORATIONS AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

MEDIA CORPORATIONS AND PERFORMANCE NORMS

MEDIA CORPORATIONS AND PROFIT

MEDIA CORPORATIONS AND COMPETITION

MEDIA ECONOMICS, PERFORMANCE, AND DEMOCRACY

Chapter 8: Entertainment and Popular Culture

DRAWING CULTURAL LINES

CULTURAL TASTE RECONSIDERED

EXPLORING POPULAR CULTURE PLURALISM

Chapter 9: Representation in the Media

IDEOLOGY, HEGEMONY, AND MASTER NARRATIVES

NARRATIVE ANALYSIS: WHAT DO OUR STORIES OF IDENTITY SAY?

INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS: WHO GETS TO TELL THE STORIES OF IDENTITY?

HISTORIC ANALYSIS: HOW ARE STORIES OF IDENTITY SHAPED BY CULTURE?

BECOMING THE MEDIA: PARTICIPATORY CULTURE AND NEW IDENTITIES

Chapter 10: Technology, Convergence, and Democracy

FROM THE INDUSTRIAL AGE TO THE INFORMATION ERA

NEW MEDIA: INNOVATION, IMPACT, INFLUENCE

TECHNOLOGY AND DEMOCRACY

Chapter 11: Media Globalization

ELEMENTS OF GLOBALIZATION

IDEOLOGY AND INFORMATION

EVALUATING GLOBALIZATION

THE FUTURE OF GLOBALIZATION

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