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Mass media and society / edited by James Curran and Michael Gurevitch.

Contributor(s): Curran, James.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : New York : E. Arnold, Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991Description: 350 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + pkb.ISBN: 0340559470 (hbk); 034051759X (pbk).Subject(s): Mass media -- Social aspects | Mass media -- Political aspectsDDC classification: 302.23
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Over the past 15 years Mass Media and Society has established itself as a 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: theories of media and society, the study of media organizations, debates about culture, ideology and democracy. The 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. Mass Media and Society continues to be an essential resource for academics and students of the media. Book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Contributors (p. vii)
  • Introduction to the Fourth Edition (p. 1)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 5)
  • Section I Media and Society: General Perspectives
  • 1 Critical Debates in Internet Studies: Reflections on an Emerging Field (p. 9)
  • 2 Feminism Without Men: Feminist Media Studies in a Post-Feminist Age (p. 29)
  • 3 Representation, Reality and Popular Culture: Semiotics and the Construction of Meaning (p. 46)
  • 4 Culture, Communications and Political Economy (p. 60)
  • 5 Globalization and National Media Systems: Mapping Interactions in Policies, Markets and Formats (p. 84)
  • 6 Rethinking the Study of Political Communication (p. 104)
  • 7 Mediations of Democracy (p. 122)
  • Section II Media Systems, Organizations and Cultures
  • 8 The Production of Media Entertainment (p. 153)
  • 9 Four Approaches to the Sociology of News (p. 172)
  • 10 The Culture of Journalism (p. 198)
  • 11 Comparing Media Systems (p. 215)
  • 12 Media Policy in the Middle East: A Reappraisal (p. 234)
  • 13 Media and Democracy Without Party Competition (p. 251)
  • 14 Selling Neo-Imperial Conflicts: Television and US Public Diplomacy (p. 271)
  • Section III Media Representations, Mediations and Influence
  • 15 The Information Society Debate Revisited (p. 287)
  • 16 Comparative Ethnography of New Media (p. 303)
  • 17 National Prisms of a Global 'Media Event' (p. 320)
  • 18 Women and Race in Feminist Media Research: Intersections, Ideology and Invisibility (p. 336)
  • 19 Viewing and Reviewing the Audience: Fashions in Communication Research (p. 356)
  • 20 Political Communication in a Changing World (p. 375)
  • Index (p. 394)

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