This widely used study has become the 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: DT theories of media and society DT the study of media organizations DT debates about culture, ideology and democracy. This 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.
Author(s): James Curran; Michael Gurevitch
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1991
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Contents
Introduction
Section I - Mass Media and Society: General Perspectives
Chapter 1 - Culture, Communications, andPolitical Economy
Critical Political Economy of Communications - Straw Menand Stereotypes
What is Critical Political Economy?
Political Economy in Practice: Three Core Tasks
The Production of Meaning as the exercise of Power
Political Economy and Textual Analysis
Consumption - Sovereignty or Struggle?
Conclusion
Chapter 2 - Feminist Perspectives onthe Media
Chapter 3 - Postmodernism and Television
Chapter 4 - Mass Media in the Public Interest
Chapter 5 - Mass Media and Democracy:A Reappraisal
Introduction
Habermas and the Public Sphere
Public Watchdog
Private Media as Public Watchdog: A Reassessment
Public Media as Watchdogs: A Reassessment
Consumer Representation
Information Role
Professional Responsibility Model
Defects of Traditional Perspective
Media and the Public Sphere
Towards a Working Model
Retrospectiv
Section II - Media Production
Chapter 7 - The Sociology of News Production Revisited
Section III - Mediation of Cultural Meanings
