Culture Society And The Media

Author : Tony Bennett,James Curran,Michael Gurevitch,Janet Wollacott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134972128

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Culture, Society and the Media by Tony Bennett,James Curran,Michael Gurevitch,Janet Wollacott Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Hodkinson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781473998346

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Media, Culture and Society by Paul Hodkinson Pdf

′In his beautifully balanced, clear and broad-ranging account of a fast-changing field, Paul Hodkinson has successfully brought together myriad perspectives with which to critically analyse today′s media culture and media society.′– Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Media & Communication, LSE Paul Hodkinson′s bestseller is back, once again exploring the concepts and complexities of the media in an accessible, balanced and engaging style. Additions to the Second Edition include: A new chapter on advertising and sponsorship Extensive revision and updating throughout all chapters New material on technologies, censorship, online news, fan cultures and representations of poverty Greater emphasis on and examples of digital, interactive and mobile media throughout Fully reworked chapter on media, community and difference Up-to-date examples covering everything from social media, contemporary advertising, news events and mobile technologies, to representations of class, ethnicity and gender. Combining a critical survey of the field with a finely judged assessment of cutting-edge developments, this Second Edition cements its reputation as the must-have text for any undergraduate student studying media, culture and society.

Author : James W. Carey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 041590725X

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Communication as Culture by James W. Carey Pdf

Carey's seminal work joins central issues in the field and redefines them. It will force the reader to think in new and fruitful ways about such dichotomies as transmissions vs. ritual, administrative vs. critical, positivist vs. marxist, and cultural vs. power-orientated approaches to communications study. An historically inspired treatment of major figures and theories, required reading for the sophisticated scholar' - George Gerbner, University of Pennsylvania ...offers a mural of thought with a rich background, highlighted by such thoughts as communication being the 'maintenance of society in time'. - Cast/Communication Booknotes These essays encompass much more than a critique of an academic discipline. Carey's lively thought, lucid style, and profound scholarship propel the reader through a wide and varied intellectual landscape, particularly as these issues have affected Modern American thought. As entertaining as it is enlightening, Communication as Culture is certain to become a classic in its field.

Author : Paul Hodkinson
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781446244036

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Media, Culture and Society by Paul Hodkinson Pdf

'In his beautifully balanced, clear and broad-ranging account of a fast-changing field, Paul Hodkinson has successfully brought together myriad perspectives with which to critically analyse today's media culture and media society' - Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Media & communication, LSE Clearly organized, systematic and combining a critical survey of the field with a finely judged assessment of cutting edge developments, this book provides a 'must have' contribution to media and communication studies. The text is organized into three distinctive parts, which fall neatly into research and teaching requirements: Elements of the Media (which covers media technologies, the organization of the media industry, media content and media users); Media, Power and Control (which addresses questions of the media and manipulation, the construction of news, public service broadcasting, censorship, commercialization); and Media, Identity and Culture (which covers issues of the media and ethnicity, gender, subcultures, audiences and fans). The book is notable for: • Logical and coherent organization • Clarity of expression • Use of relevant examples • Fair minded criticism • Zestful powers of analysis It has all of the qualities to be adopted as core introductory text in the large and buoyant field of media and communication studies.

Author : Stig Hjarvard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415692366

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The Mediatization of Culture and Society by Stig Hjarvard Pdf

Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful for the analysis of how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other social institutions and cultural phenomena like politics, play and religion. This book presents a major contribution to the theoretical understanding of the mediatization of culture and society. This is supplemented by in-depth studies of: The mediatization of politics: From party press to opinion industry; The mediatization of religion: From the faith of the church to the enchantment of the media; The mediatization of play: From bricks to bytes; The mediatization of habitus: The social character of a new individualism. Mediatization represents a new social condition in which the media have emerged as an important institution in society at the same time as they have become integrated into the very fabric of social and cultural life. Making use of a broad conception of the media as technologies, institutions and aesthetic forms, Stig Hjarvard considers how characteristics of both old and new media come to influence human interaction, social institutions and cultural imaginations.

Author : John Ryan,William M. Wentworth
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015053397686

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Media and Society by John Ryan,William M. Wentworth Pdf

In this large-scale, postindustrial society, the mass media has become deeply embedded into the lifestyles of everyday citizens. People are lured by television ratings, celebrity-sponsored products, and high-profile crimes and scandals, all finding their way into living rooms across America by satellites, cable wires, and modems. This book examines the real, imagined, and potential effects of the mass media on individuals and society. The book explores the processes through which the mass media is enabled and constrained by such factors as technology, law, industry structure, and occupational careers, accounting for the vast changes that have developed in recent years. This book is divided into two parts. Part I defines mass communication and locates its role in social life. Part II considers the factors which influence media content, providing insight into how the industry operates. Sociologists, Communication and Mass Media specialists, film, music, and pop culture critics, and enthusiasts of these fields.

Author : Yeoh Seng Guan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135169282

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Media, Culture and Society in Malaysia by Yeoh Seng Guan Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive, full-length analysis of the uses of media and communication technologies by different social actors in Malaysia. Unlike other studies of the media in Malaysia which concentrate on "political economy" or "freedom of the media" approaches, this book focuses on the ways in which different media forms have constituted cultural practices and power relations amongst particular audiences and publics. It also examines the ways in which technologies of varying scales and range have been appropriated for various subaltern purposes and counter-hegemonic agendas. Drawing upon recent case studies on the deployment of different media – including mainstream and independent films, television programming, black metal music, community rituals, political advertising, the internet, and artistic visual installations – it provides valuable insights into the complex, vibrant ways in which these different media forms have negotiated with the dominant cultural representations of Malaysian society. The book makes an important contribution to the emergent disciplines of media studies and cultural studies in Malaysia.

Author : Michael Gurevitch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Mass media
ISBN : OCLC:463937088

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Culture Society and the Media by Michael Gurevitch Pdf

Author : Richard Collins,James Curran,Nicholas Garnham,Paddy Scannell,Philip Schlesinger,Colin Sparks
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803997493

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Media, Culture & Society by Richard Collins,James Curran,Nicholas Garnham,Paddy Scannell,Philip Schlesinger,Colin Sparks Pdf

Media, Culture & Society has pioneered a unique approach to media analysis. Since 1979, it has published some of the finest theoretical and historical work in communication and cultural studies from Britain and Europe. The articles in this reader are grouped in three parts, representing a selection of the best work. Each part is preceded by an introductory essay which helps students understand the issues presented, and places the theoretical contributions in context.

Author : Mehdi Semati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-09-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135981556

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Media, Culture and Society in Iran by Mehdi Semati Pdf

By exploring topics such as the Internet, print press, advertising, satellite television, video, rock music, literature, cinema, gender, religious intellectuals, and secularism, this unique and wide-ranging volume explains Iran as a complex society that has successfully managed to negotiate and embody the tensions of tradition and modernity, democracy and theocracy, isolation and globalization, and other such cultural-political dynamics that escape the explanatory and analytical powers of all-too-familiar binary relations. Featuring contributions from among the best-known and emerging scholars on Iranian media, culture, society, and politics, this volume uncovers how the existing perspectives on post-revolutionary Iranian society have failed to appreciate the complexity, the paradoxes and the contradictions that characterize life in contemporary Iran, resulting in a general failure to explain and to anticipate its contemporary social and political transformations.

Author : Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson,Damien Spry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135281274

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Youth, Society and Mobile Media in Asia by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson,Damien Spry Pdf

This book examines the influence of mobile media technology on the lives of young people in East and North Asia, South East Asia and Australia. It discusses the impact information communication technologies have today on social identity, well-being, participation and exclusion. It explores current media practices and their innovative, transformative and disruptive uses at the local, the regional, the national, and the global level. In particular, it analyses mobile media not as a discrete object, but rather as part of a dynamic communication and information environment in which human-object relations are constantly reconfigured. It covers key theoretical and conceptual themes in youth mobile media research focusing on social, cultural and political aspects, including coverage of key themes such as regulation and technology, practices, pedagogies, aesthetics, social change, and representations of mobile youth. The book includes new accounts of recent research into the uses of mobile media by young people, and how these are situated in a broader socio-political context. Case studies include mobile panics in Australia (the notorious Kings of Wirrabee sexual assault case) and Japan (the scandals of high school girls as teenage prostitutes) in which mobile media use has had significant impact. This book offers an up-to-date examination of the influence of information communication technologies on young people’s lives in the region.

Author : Göran Bolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136302961

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Cultural Technologies by Göran Bolin Pdf

The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings together internationally recognised scholars from the social sciences and humanities, covering diverse themes such as intellectual property, server farms and search engines, cultural technologies and epistemology, virtual embassies, surveillance, peer-to-peer file-sharing, sound media and nostalgia and much more. It contains both historical and contemporary analyses of technological phenomena as well as epistemological discussions on the uses of technology.

Author : James Curran,David Hesmondhalgh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501340741

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Media and Society by James Curran,David Hesmondhalgh Pdf

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 : Lawrence A. Wenner
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1989-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0803932448

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Media, Sports, and Society by Lawrence A. Wenner Pdf

Media, Sports and Society provides a foundation for research on the communication of sports. The volume is framed by a seminal article outlining the parameters of the communication of sports and pointing to major issues that need to be addressed in the relationship between sports and media. Contributors examine the theoretical, cultural and historical issues, the production of media sports programming, its content and its audience. Individual chapters include a discussion of the spectacle of media sports, a comparison of Super Bowl Football and World Cup Soccer, a consideration of the spectators' enjoyment of sports violence, the rhetoric of winning and the American dream, and a fascinating examination of gender harmony and sports in

Author : Richard Collins
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015066744338

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Media, Culture & Society by Richard Collins Pdf

Media, Culture & Society has pioneered a unique approach to media analysis. Since 1979, it has published some of the finest theoretical and historical work in communication and cultural studies from Britain and Europe. The articles in this reader are grouped in three parts, representing a selection of the best work. Each part is preceded by an introductory essay which helps students understand the issues presented, and places the theoretical contributions in context.