Mediated Society; A Crtical Sociology of Media examines how various forms of media influence individuals and society from a sociological perspective. From this unique standpoint the authors provide a fresh, sophisticated, in-depth analysis surrounding the role of media as it shapes social issues. The text discusses media and communication in urban, national, and global settings, as well as the power and structure of dominant mass media. A wide range of historical and current examples, along with international references for comparison, provide relevant illustrations for students. The text ends with two case studies that apply the material introduced throughout the book for a practical, real-life model to culminate students' reading.

John D. Jackson is an emeritus professor of sociology at Concordia University and a senior research fellow with Concordia's Centre for Broadcasting Studies. Greg M. Nielsen is professor of sociology and director of the Centre for Broadcasting Studies at Concordia University. Yon Hsu is a research fellow with Concordia's Centre for Broadcasting Studies.

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Sociology, Media, and Citizenship
Sources for a Critical Sociology of Mediated Society	p. 3
Introduction	p. 4
Critical Sociology: Exposing the Gap between Real and Imaginary Audiences	p. 4
Media Centred Approaches	p. 13
Decentred Approaches	p. 19
Summary	p. 27
Enhanced Learning Activities	p. 28
Annotated Further Reading	p. 28
Useful Media	p. 29
The Public Sphere	p. 30
Introduction	p. 31
Public Spaces	p. 32
Media and Public Spaces	p. 35
The State and the Commercial Imperative	p. 45
Summary	p. 52
Enhanced Learning Activities	p. 53
Annotated Further Reading	p. 53
Notes	p. 54
Citizenship and Audiences	p. 55
Introduction	p. 56
Mediated Society as a Social System	p. 56
Audiences: Real or Imagined?	p. 59
Audiences through the Lens of Social Research	p. 63
The Media System and Responsibility	p. 71
Summary	p. 74
Enhanced Learning Activities	p. 75
Annotated Further Reading	p. 75
Useful Media	p. 76
Note	p. 77
Consumption and Advertising	p. 78
Introduction	p. 79
Consumption: The Paradoxical Phenomenon	p. 79
The Marxist Perspective on Production and Consumption	p. 80
Georg Simmel on Fashion and Urban Life	p. 83
Leisure Class, Gender, and Conspicuous Consumption	p. 85
Classical Sociology of Consumption: The Limitation	p. 86
Cultural Capital and Social Class	p. 87
Feminist Critiques: Gender, Political Economy, and Consumption	p. 88
Advertising as Mass Communication	p. 90
De Certeau on Agency, Interpretation, and Advertising	p. 95
Summary	p. 97
Enhanced Learning Activities	p. 98
Annotated Further Reading	p. 98
Useful Media	p. 99
New Media, New World?	p. 100
Introduction	p. 101
New Media: A Contemporary Phenomenon	p. 102
New Media: A Historical Phenomenon	p. 106
The Sociological Imagination of New Media	p. 110
TV: A Continued Debate	p. 114
New Media and Political Violence	p. 115
Summary	p. 118
Enhanced Learning Activities	p. 119
Annotated Further Reading	p. 119
Useful Media	p. 120
Media Events and the Sociological Imagination
	p. 123
Introduction	p. 124
What Is Globalization?	p. 124
Global Media Domination and Resistance	p. 126
Framing the News	p. 131
Global Media Events as Spectacles	p. 135
Mediating Citizenship Through Global Media Events	p. 137
Missing Global Media Events	p. 138
Missing News from the Global South	p. 139
Summary	p. 142
Enhanced Learning Activities	p. 143
Annotated Further Reading	p. 143
Useful Media	p. 144
National Media Events	p. 145
Introduction	p. 146
Multinational Canada and Public Broadcasting	p. 147
Double-Faced Janus: National Media, Social Order, and Disorder	p. 149
English Canada: A Mediated Absent Nation	p. 153
Multicultural Framing: Common Memories and National Histories	p. 157
Summary	p. 162
Enhanced Learning Activities	p. 162
Annotated Further Reading	p. 163
Useful Media	p. 163
Urban Media Events: Toronto and Montreal Case Studies	p. 165
Introduction	p. 166
Seriocomedy, Newspapers, and the Well-Ordered City	p. 167
National Public Broadcasting of the Cultures of Urban Laughter	p. 168
Toronto and the Absent Nation	p. 171
Amalgamation Debates: Normal Disorder of the City?	p. 175
Montreal and the Absent Region	p. 179
Crossover Voices	p. 183
Summary	p. 187
Enhanced Learning Activities	p. 188
Annotated Further Reading	p. 189
Useful Media	p. 189
Notes	p. 190
Social Problems Through Journalism and Media
Reporting on Social Problems	p. 193
Introduction	p. 194
What Makes a Problem Social?	p. 194
Reporting on Social Problems	p. 197
Social Problems Imagined through Entertainment	p. 208
Summary	p. 212
Enhanced Learning Activities	p. 212
Annotated Further Reading	p. 213
Useful Media	p. 213
Notes	p. 214
Journalism and Seriocomedy: Framing Poverty in Montreal Media	p. 215
Introduction	p. 216
Les Bougons: Seriocomedy and Poverty	p. 218
Studying Newspapers: Frame Analysis and Keyword Search	p. 220
Direct Talk in the Press: 'The Poorest of the Poor'	p. 222
'OurTV Poor' Are at Peace	p. 225
Journalistic Polemics on Politicians, Developers, and the State	p. 226
Seriocomedy as Anarchy: Against the Common Good	p. 228
Indirect Talk: Journalistic Accounts of Poor Reporting on Poor	p. 229
Summary	p. 231
Enhanced Learning Activities	p. 233
Annotated Further Reading	p. 233
Useful Media	p. 234
Note	p. 234
Framing Immigration as a Social Problem in The New York Times	p. 235
Introduction	p. 236
On US Immigration and New York City	p. 238
What Is Conditional Hospitality?	p. 240
Just, Unjust, and Extreme	p. 242
Multicultural Practices and Changing Faces	p. 246
Governance: Official Discourse and Political Shocks	p. 248
Social Movements: The Astonishment of Social Solidarity	p. 250
How Can Public Journalism Reduce the Gap?	p. 251
Summary	p. 253
Enhanced Learning Activities	p. 254
Annotated Further Reading	p. 255
Useful Media	p. 255
Note	p. 255
Glossary	p. 257
References	p. 263
Index	p. 273
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