Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. With this updated edition, David Hesmondhalgh joins James Curran and a team of leading international scholars to speak to current issues relating to media and gender, media and democracy, sociology of news, the global internet, the political impact of the media, popular culture, the effects of digitisation on media industries, media and emotion, and other vital topics. The media are in a state of ferment, and are undergoing far-reaching change. The sixth edition tries to make sense of the media's transformation, and its wider implications. Purely descriptive accounts date fast, so the emphasis has been on identifying the central issues and problems arising from media change, and on evaluating its wider consequences. What is judged to be the staple elements of the field has evolved over time, as well as becoming more international in orientation. Yet the overriding aim of the book - to be useful to students - has remained constant. This text is an essential resource for all media, communication and film studies students who want to broaden their knowledge and understanding of how the media operates and affects society across the globe.
Author(s): James Curran, David Hesmondhalgh
Edition: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 384
Tags: Media, Society
Introduction
James Curran and David Hesmondhalgh viii
Part I
MEDIA AND SOCIETY: GENErAl PErSPECTIvES
Chapter 1
THE GlObAl INTErNET
Jack linchuan Qiu 3
Chapter 2
POPulAr CulTurE
Marwan M. Kraidy 21
Chapter 3
MEDIA, GENDEr AND FEMINISM
Susan J. Douglas 37
Chapter 4
NEO lIbErAlISM AND THE MEDIA
Mike berry 57
Chapter 5
COMMuNICATION POwEr: MASS COMMuNICATION,
MASS SElF-COMMuNICATION AND POwEr rElATIONSHIPS
IN THE NETwOrK SOCIETY
Manuel Castells 83
Part II
MEDIA SYSTEMS, PrODuCTION AND PlATFOrMS
Chapter 6
HAvE DIGITAl COMMuNICATION TECHNOlOGIES
DEMOCrATIzED THE MEDIA INDuSTrIES?
David Hesmondhalgh 101
Chapter 7
THE MEDIATIONS OF DATA
Alison Powell 121
Chapter 8
APPrOACHES TO THE SOCIOlOGY OF NEwS
Michael Schudson 139
Chapter 9
wESTErN MEDIA SYSTEMS IN COMPArATIvE PErSPECTIvE
Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini 167
Chapter 10
GlObAl SCrEEN INDuSTrIES
Michael Curtin 187
Chapter 11
DIGITAl PlATFOrMS, GlObAlIzATION AND CulTurE
Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan 207
Part III
PrOblEMS AND CHAllENGES
Chapter 12
JOurNAlISM, ONlINE AND OFFlINE
C. w. Anderson 227
Chapter 13
MEDIA, rACE AND THE INFrASTruCTurES OF EMPIrE
Paula Chakravartty 245
Chapter 14
THE POlITICS OF rEAlITY Tv
Susan Murray 263
Chapter 15
DEMOCrATIC FuNCTIONS OF ENTErTAINMENT
James Curran 281
Chapter 16
THE POlITICAl IMPACT OF MEDIA
Stephen Cushion 303
Chapter 17
MEDIA, EMOTIONS AND AFFECT
Kaarina Nikunen 323
list of Contributors 341
Index 343
