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Mass Media and Society / edited by James Curran and Michael Gurevitch.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: London : Hodder Arnold, c2005.Edition: 4th edDescription: viii, 400 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0340884991
  • 9780340884997
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 302.23 MAS
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Contents:
Section I. Media and society: general perspectives. Critical debates in Internet studies: reflections on an emerging field / Sonia Livingstone ; Feminism without men: feminist media studies in a post-feminist age / Karen Boyle ; Representation, reality and popular culture: semiotics and the construction of meaning / Christine Geraghty ; Culture, communications and political economy / Graham Murdock, Peter Golding ; Globalization and national media systems: mapping interactions in policies, markets and formats / Kalyani Chadha, Anandam Kavoori ; Rethinking the study of political communication / Jay G. Blumler, Michael Gurevitch ; Mediations of democracy / James Curran -- Section II. Media systems, organizations and cultures. The production of media entertainment / David Hesmondhalgh ; Four approaches to the sociology of news / Michael Schudson ; The culture of journalism / Barbie Zelizer ; Comparing media systems / Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini ; Media policy in the Middle East: a reappraisal / Naomi Sakr ; Media and democracy without party competition / Robert M. Entman ; Selling neo-imperial conflicts: television and US public diplomacy / Daya Kishan Thussu -- Section III. Media representations, mediations and influence. The information society debate revisited / Nicholas Garnham ; Comparative ethnography of new media / Daniel Miller, Don Slater ; National prisms of a global 'media event' / Chin-Chuan Lee [and others] ; Women and race in feminist media research: intersections, ideology and invisibility / Linda Aldoory, Shawn J. Parry-Giles ; Viewing and reviewing the audience: fashions in communication research / Tamar Liebes ; Political communication in a changing world / Peter Dahlgren, Michael Gurevitch
Summary: In this well established text, a team of international scholars give their thoughts on mass media and culture. The book also seeks to reflect changing emphasis in the study of mass communication and popular culture
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Books Hamu Mukasa Library Closed Access l Short Loan; Level 1 302.23 MAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 157832

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Section I. Media and society: general perspectives. Critical debates in Internet studies: reflections on an emerging field / Sonia Livingstone ; Feminism without men: feminist media studies in a post-feminist age / Karen Boyle ; Representation, reality and popular culture: semiotics and the construction of meaning / Christine Geraghty ; Culture, communications and political economy / Graham Murdock, Peter Golding ; Globalization and national media systems: mapping interactions in policies, markets and formats / Kalyani Chadha, Anandam Kavoori ; Rethinking the study of political communication / Jay G. Blumler, Michael Gurevitch ; Mediations of democracy / James Curran -- Section II. Media systems, organizations and cultures. The production of media entertainment / David Hesmondhalgh ; Four approaches to the sociology of news / Michael Schudson ; The culture of journalism / Barbie Zelizer ; Comparing media systems / Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini ; Media policy in the Middle East: a reappraisal / Naomi Sakr ; Media and democracy without party competition / Robert M. Entman ; Selling neo-imperial conflicts: television and US public diplomacy / Daya Kishan Thussu -- Section III. Media representations, mediations and influence. The information society debate revisited / Nicholas Garnham ; Comparative ethnography of new media / Daniel Miller, Don Slater ; National prisms of a global 'media event' / Chin-Chuan Lee [and others] ; Women and race in feminist media research: intersections, ideology and invisibility / Linda Aldoory, Shawn J. Parry-Giles ; Viewing and reviewing the audience: fashions in communication research / Tamar Liebes ; Political communication in a changing world / Peter Dahlgren, Michael Gurevitch

In this well established text, a team of international scholars give their thoughts on mass media and culture. The book also seeks to reflect changing emphasis in the study of mass communication and popular culture

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