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Media and society / edited by James Curran.

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Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: United Kingdom, New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2010Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xiii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780340984451
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23 CU.M 2010 23
LOC classification:
  • HM258.C97
Contents:
Communication power: mass communication, mass self-communication, and power relationships in the network society / Manuel Castells -- Film and society / Toby Miller -- Entertaining democracy / James Curran -- Media and feminism / Sue Thornham -- Media and politics / Aeron Davis -- Western media systems in comparative perspective / Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini -- Interactive, engaging but unequal: critical conclusions from Internet studies / Sonia Livingstone -- Media industry studies, media production studies / David Hesmondhalgh -- Four approaches to the sociology of news revisited / Michael Schudson -- The contribution of critical political economy / Jonathan Hardy -- Beyond the global/local: examining contemporary media globalization trends across national contexts / Kalyani Chadha and Anandam Kavoori -- Contemporary Hollywood radicalism / Ben Dickenson -- Chinese media, contentious society / Yuezhi Zhao -- The state of media-effects research / Shanto Iyengar -- Media regimes and democracy / Bruce A. Williams and Michael X. Delli Carpini -- Arab film and Islamic fundamentalism / Lina Khatib -- The politics of reality TV: an overview of recent research / Susan Murray -- Race and identity in digital media / Lisa Nakamura -- The rise of Internet news media and the emergence of discursive publics in South Korea / June Woong Rhee -- The future of the news industry / Robert G. Picard.
Summary: An introduction to media studies, covering such topics as: the changing interaction between film and society, the meaning and purpose of media entertainment, national influence on globalizing media systems, the politics and virtual reality shows, and more.
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"Reprinted 2013, 2014, 2016"-- title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Communication power: mass communication, mass self-communication, and power relationships in the network society / Manuel Castells -- Film and society / Toby Miller -- Entertaining democracy / James Curran -- Media and feminism / Sue Thornham -- Media and politics / Aeron Davis -- Western media systems in comparative perspective / Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini -- Interactive, engaging but unequal: critical conclusions from Internet studies / Sonia Livingstone -- Media industry studies, media production studies / David Hesmondhalgh -- Four approaches to the sociology of news revisited / Michael Schudson -- The contribution of critical political economy / Jonathan Hardy -- Beyond the global/local: examining contemporary media globalization trends across national contexts / Kalyani Chadha and Anandam Kavoori -- Contemporary Hollywood radicalism / Ben Dickenson -- Chinese media, contentious society / Yuezhi Zhao -- The state of media-effects research / Shanto Iyengar -- Media regimes and democracy / Bruce A. Williams and Michael X. Delli Carpini -- Arab film and Islamic fundamentalism / Lina Khatib -- The politics of reality TV: an overview of recent research / Susan Murray -- Race and identity in digital media / Lisa Nakamura -- The rise of Internet news media and the emergence of discursive publics in South Korea / June Woong Rhee -- The future of the news industry / Robert G. Picard.

An introduction to media studies, covering such topics as: the changing interaction between film and society, the meaning and purpose of media entertainment, national influence on globalizing media systems, the politics and virtual reality shows, and more.

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