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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991.Description: 350 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0340559470 :
  • 034051759X (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23 20
LOC classification:
  • HM258.M26
Contents:
Contents: Mass media and society: general perspectives: Culture, communications and political economy -- Feminist perspectives on the media -- Postmodernism and television -- Mass media in the public interest: towards a framework of norms for media performance -- Mass media and democracy: a reappraisal -- The global and the local in international communications -- Media production: The sociology of news production revisited -- A mass communication perspective on entertainment industries -- The globalization of electronic journalism -- The new television marketplace: imperatives, implications, issues -- In defense of objectivity -- Mediation of cultural meanings: On understanding and misunderstanding media effects -- Meaning, genre and context: the problematics of 'public knowledge' in the new audience studies -- Audience reception: the role of the viewer in retelling romantic drama -- Gender and/in media consumption -- The politics of communication and the communication of politics --
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Books WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA KUMASI LIBRARY General Stacks WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, GHANA KUMASI LIBRARY HM258.M26 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available K/2888/0022/22

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Mass media and society: general perspectives: Culture, communications and political economy -- Feminist perspectives on the media -- Postmodernism and television -- Mass media in the public interest: towards a framework of norms for media performance -- Mass media and democracy: a reappraisal -- The global and the local in international communications -- Media production: The sociology of news production revisited -- A mass communication perspective on entertainment industries -- The globalization of electronic journalism -- The new television marketplace: imperatives, implications, issues -- In defense of objectivity -- Mediation of cultural meanings: On understanding and misunderstanding media effects -- Meaning, genre and context: the problematics of 'public knowledge' in the new audience studies -- Audience reception: the role of the viewer in retelling romantic drama -- Gender and/in media consumption -- The politics of communication and the communication of politics --

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