Media Power

Author : James Curran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134900374

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Media and Power by James Curran Pdf

Media and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society. *How much power do the media have? *Who really controls the media? *What is the relationship between media and power in society? In this major new book, James Curran reviews the different answers which have been given, before advancing original interpretations in a series of ground-breaking essays. This book also provides a guided tour of the major debates in media studies. What part did the media play in the making of modern society? How did 'new media' change society in the past? Will radical media research recover from its mid-life crisis? Is public service television the dying product of the nation in an age of globalization? Media and Power provides both a clear introduction to media research and an innovative analysis of media power.

Author : Hugh O'Donnell,Neil Blain
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1841503142

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Media, Monarchy and Power by Hugh O'Donnell,Neil Blain Pdf

Author : Nick Couldry,James Curran
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0742523853

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Contesting Media Power by Nick Couldry,James Curran Pdf

Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web discussion forums, feminist film, political journalism and social networks, indigenous communication, and church-sponsored media. This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in current global struggles, such as the anti-globalization movement.

Author : Ilija Tomanić Trivundža,Hannu Nieminen,Nico Carpentier,Josef Trappel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351591201

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Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change by Ilija Tomanić Trivundža,Hannu Nieminen,Nico Carpentier,Josef Trappel Pdf

This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media, power and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. This diversity is simultaneously structured and balanced by a deeply shared set of concerns, that are mobilised to defend core societal values including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and humanity. Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change raises questions about how the omnipresent media can contribute to the materialisation of these core values, and how it sometimes works against them. Rethinking social change, mediatisation and regulations are thus significant issues – explicitly addressed in this book. In addition the authors show how the role of the critical media and communication scholar merits and requires (self-)reflection; critical voices matter, but they also face structural limitations. This book was originally published as two special issues of Javnost – The Public.

Author : Des Freedman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781849666107

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The Contradictions of Media Power by Des Freedman Pdf

Media power is a crucial, although often taken for granted, concept. We assume, for example, that the media are 'powerful'; if they were not, why would there be so many controversies over the regulation, control and impact of communicative institutions and processes? Further, we assume that this 'power' is somehow problematic; audiences are often treated as highly susceptible to media influence and too much 'power' in the hands of one organization or individual is seen as risky and potentially dangerous. These concerns have been at the heart of recent controversies involving the relationships between media moguls and political elites, the consequences of phone hacking in the UK, and the emerging influence of social media as vital gatekeepers. Yet it is still not clear what we mean by media power or how effective it is. This book evaluates contrasting definitions of media power and looks at the key sites in which power is negotiated, concentrated and resisted - politically, technologically and economically. Combining an evaluation of both previous literature and new research, the book seeks to establish an understanding of media power which does justice to the complexities and contradictions of the contemporary social world. It will be important reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and activists alike.

Author : Yahya R. Kamalipour
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442204171

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Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age by Yahya R. Kamalipour Pdf

Focusing on the Iranian presidential elections of 2009 and ensuing demonstrations in major cities across Iran and world, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age provides a balanced discussion of the role and impact of modern communication technologies, particularly the novel utilization of 'small digital media' vis-^-vis the elections and global media coverage. Written in a non-technical, easy to read, and accessible manner, the volume will appeal to scholars, students, policy makers and print professionals alike. To provide a global overview of media coverage and diverse perspectives on the controversial 2009 presidential election, this book consists of 24 original essays, covering issues from global media coverage to new media-social networking, from the ideological-political dimensions to the cultural facets of the elections. Organized in a cohesive manner, the writing styles and presentation remain varied and richly informative.

Author : Robert Stein
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780595358250

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Media Power by Robert Stein Pdf

WHY WE'RE STUFFED WITH INFORMATION BUT STARVED FOR UNDERSTANDING Three decades ago, Media Power predicted the coming of our 24/7 news culture and how it would make us suffer from "deprivation by surfeit". Selected by the Book of the Month Club And the Fortune Book Club Robert Stein, an award-winning editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors. "His inquiry leads ultimately to moral concerns and he asks the right questions in abundance." -The New York Times Book Review "Keen insights a humanitarian critic." -Public Opinion Quarterly "You'll like it. It's salty." -Arnold Gingrich, Founding Editor, Esquire "If freedom of the press ever disappears in America it will not be with a bang but a whimper. Well said." -Columbia Journalism Review

Author : Doris Appel Graber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016891858

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Media Power in Politics by Doris Appel Graber Pdf

Author : Nick Couldry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134614080

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The Place of Media Power by Nick Couldry Pdf

This fascinating study focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between ordinary people and the media. Couldry explores what happens when people who normally consume the media witness media processes in action, or even become the object of media attention themselves.

Author : Charles Chi-wai Cheung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317266587

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Media Power in Hong Kong by Charles Chi-wai Cheung Pdf

Studies of Hong Kong media primarily examine whether China will crush Hong Kong’s media freedom. This book however traces the root problem of Hong Kong media back to the colonial era, demonstrating that before the resumption of Chinese sovereignty there already existed a uniquely Hong Kong brand of hyper-marketized and oligopolistic media system. The system, encouraged by the British colonial government, was subsequently aggravated by the Chinese government. This peculiar system is highly susceptible to state intervention and structurally disadvantaged dissent and marginal groups before and after 1997. The book stresses that this hyper-marketized media system has been constantly challenged. Through a historical study of media stigmatization of youth, this book proposes that over the years various counter forces have penetrated the structurally lopsided Hong Kong media: independent, public, popular and news media all make occasional subversive alliances to disrupt the mainstream, and news media, with a strong liberal professionalism, provide the most subversive space for challenging cultural hegemony. The book offers an alternative and fascinating account of the dynamics between hegemonic closure and day-to-day resistance in Hong Kong media in both the colonial and post-colonial eras, arguing that the Hong Kong case generates important insights for understanding ideological struggles in capitalist media.

Author : Brett Christophers
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739133101

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Envisioning Media Power by Brett Christophers Pdf

Envisioning Media Power develops an original geographical perspective on the nature and exercise of power in the international television economy. It uses theories of political economy as the basis for a comparative empirical examination of the UK and New Zealand television markets, while closely considering these markets' respective relationships with the US market and its globally-influential media corporations. In fleshing out this geographical perspective, the book critically addresses the power to produce, reproduce, and extract profit from territorialized media markets. To understand such powers, the book examines processes of creation and dissemination of industry knowledge, structures of industry governance, and the locational characteristics of television's operational economy. Through its rigorous and creative combination of conceptual insights with empirical substance, Envisioning Media Power both illuminates the fabric of television's international space economy, and ultimately offers a unique theoretic argument - suggesting that power, knowledge and geography are inseparable not only from one another, but from the process of accumulation of media capital.

Author : Ross Tapsell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786600370

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Media Power in Indonesia by Ross Tapsell Pdf

h2 style="page-break-after:avoid"Examines the Indonesian media industry in the digital era, examining contemporary ‘battlefields’ between media owners and ordinary citizens.

Author : S. Barnett,J. Townend
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137522849

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Media Power and Plurality by S. Barnett,J. Townend Pdf

While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging. This book assesses the current state of policy-making on media plurality and explores novel policy ideas for funding, regulatory and structural interventions.

Author : Howard Tumber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135118365

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Media Power, Professionals and Policies by Howard Tumber Pdf

The work of Jeremy Tunstall, one of the founding fathers of British media studies, is the inspiration behind Media Power, Professionals and Policies. In this collection of new work, leading international contributors address the central themes of Tunstall's work; the history, structures and practices of the international media industry, the relationship between media and government, and the sociology of labour in the media industry.

Author : Rick Rockwell,Noreene Janus
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780252092282

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Media Power in Central America by Rick Rockwell,Noreene Janus Pdf

Media Power in Central America explores the political and cultural interplay between the media and those in power in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, and Nicaragua. Highlighting the subtle strangulation of opposition media voices in the region, the authors show how the years since the guerrilla wars have not yielded the free media systems that some had expected. Rick Rockwell and Noreene Janus examine the region country by country and deal with the specific conditions of government-sponsored media repression, economic censorship, corruption, and consumer trends that shape the political landscape. Challenging the notion of the media as a democratizing force, Media Power in Central America shows how governments use the media to block democratic reforms and outlines the difficulties of playing watchdog to rulers who use the media as a tool of power.