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.

Mass Media and Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Gurevitch, Michael

Curran, James

Social Sciences

Bloomsbury USA

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Crisis of Public Communication (Communication and Society)

Blumler, Jay

Routledge

The role of the mass media in the world of politcs has become increasingly influential and controversial. This book traces the origins and development of this phenomena, basing discussion on critiques of BBC election coverage since 1966.

Humor & Entertainment

Culture, Society, and the Media

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.

Some shelf wear, creasing to cover.Some tanning to page edges. Pages are clean. Binding is tight.

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The Secularization of Leisure: Culture and Communication in Israel

Katz, Elihu

Harvard University Press

Mass Communication and Society (Set Books)

Curran, J.

Woollacott, Janet

Arnold

The Formation of Campaign Agendas (Routledge Communication Series)

This unusual volume seeks to accomplish three related goals:  * to assess the extent and limits of media power in election campaigns   * to extend the concept of media agenda-setting to include the contributions of powerful news sources in the process of election agenda formation   * to evaluate the impact of national system variables (differences in political and media systems) on the balance of party and media forces in the formation of campaign agendas  In the process, it searches for ways of measuring the discretionary power of the media in electoral politics, testing this in terms of the relative ability of journalists and politicians to shape election campaign agendas.

The Formation of Campaign Agendas: A Comparative Analysis of Party and Media Roles in Recent American and British Elections (Routledge Communication Series)

Semetko, Holli A.

Blumler, Jay G.

Barkin, Steve

Weaver, David H.

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