UID:
kobvindex_INT0000589
Format:
[vii], 317 pages ;
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23.5 cm.
Edition:
Reprint.
ISBN:
9780415027892 (pbk.)
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0415027896 (pbk.)
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE:
"This book discusses two related themes concerning the role and processes of mass communication in society. The first deals with questions regarding the power of the media: how should it be defined? how is it wielded and by whom? are previous approaches and answers to such questions adequate? The second theme revolves around the divisions between the liberal pluralist and Marxist approaches to the analysis of the nature of the media. These divisions have, in recent years, been fundamental to the debate concerning the understanding of the role of mass communication, and the examination of them in this book will challenge the reader to look more closely at a number of assumptions that have long been taken for granted."
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: first published 1982 by Methuen ; reprinted in 1982 (3 times), 1986, 1988. -- Title page verso.
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MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE:
PART I CLASS, IDEOLOGY AND THE MEDIA:
Introduction --
The study of the media: theoretical approaches by James Curran, Michael Gurevitch, Janet Woollacott --
Theories of the media, theories of society by Tony Bennett --
The rediscovery of ‘ideology’: return of the repressed in media studies by Stuart Hall --
Messages and meanings by Janet Woollacott --
PART II MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS:
Introduction --
Large corporations and the control of the communications industries by Graham Murdock --
Negotiation of control in media organizations and occupations by Margaret Gallagher --
Cultural dependency and the mass media by J.O. Boyd-Barrett --
PART III THE POWER OF THE MEDIA:
Introduction --
Communications, power and social order by James Curran --
The political effects of mass communication by Jay G. Blumler, Michael Gurevitch --
How the media report race by Peter Braham --
Media, ‘reality’, signification by Tony Bennett.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Edited volumes
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