Questioning the Media
A Critical Introduction
2nd Edition
Published on 21. June 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
386 pages
978-0-8039-3643-0 (ISBN)
Description
This practical, highly accessible volume is designed to introduce students and general readers to the field of media studies, inviting readers to be active participants in the process of understanding the importance of media today. Questioning the Media is an introductory text with a difference - no previous book has provided so wide a sweep of coverage on critical approaches to communication and the media from top international and interdisciplinary authors. They present diverse critical perspectives on media communication including political economy, cultural studies, Frankfurt School critical theory, feminism, audience ethnography and cultural dependency.
Topics discussed include: freedom of information in a censorship age; managerial control mechanisms within media institutions; Soviet media before and after glasnost; commercial surveillance of audiences; information technology in the developed and under-developed worlds; media representations of gender and race; sports coverage; and film as art, as industry and as language.
Topics discussed include: freedom of information in a censorship age; managerial control mechanisms within media institutions; Soviet media before and after glasnost; commercial surveillance of audiences; information technology in the developed and under-developed worlds; media representations of gender and race; sports coverage; and film as art, as industry and as language.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Weight
623 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-3643-0 (9780803936430)
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Previous edition
John D. H. Downing | Ali Mohammadi | Annabelle Sreberny
Questioning the Media
A Critical Introduction
Book
05/1995
1st Edition
SAGE Publications Inc
€120.53
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Persons
John Downing is Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the Univeristy of Texas, Austin. He is a co-editor of Questioning the Media (1990) and has contributed to the journals Media, Culture & Society and Discourse & Society Dr Ali Mohammadi is Reader in the Department of English and Media Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is co-author with Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, of Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication and Culture and The Iranian Revolution (1994). He is also co-editor of Questioning the Media (1994)
CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Oliver Boyd-Barrett University of Leicester
Cees Hamelink University of Amsterdam
Ralph Negrine University of Leicester
John Tomlinson Nottingham Trent University
CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Oliver Boyd-Barrett University of Leicester
Cees Hamelink University of Amsterdam
Ralph Negrine University of Leicester
John Tomlinson Nottingham Trent University
Content
PART ONE: INTRODUCTORY PERSPECTIVES: CULTURE, HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY
Culture and Communication - Alan O'Connor
Forms of Media as Ways of Knowing - Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi
How Are Media Born? - Brian Winston
PART TWO: MEDIA, POWER AND CONTROL
Media in the US Political Economy - Edward Herman
Mass Media and the US Presidency - Cedric J Robinson
The Tug-of-War over the First Amendment - Donna A Demac and John Downing
Control Mechanisms Inside the Media - Mark Schulman
Western Europe - Denis McQuail
"Mixed Model" Under Threat?
Soviet Media Before and After Glasnost - John Downing
PART THREE: AUDIENCES AND USERS
The Nature of the Audience - Ien Ang
Tracking the Audience - Oscar H Gandy Jr
Alternative Media and the Boston Tea Party - John Downing
PART FOUR: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Computers and Communication - Karen Paulsell
New Communication Technologies - Donna A Demac
A Plug 'n' Play World?
Information Imbalance - Cees Hamelink
Core and Periphery
PART FIVE: MASS CULTURE AND POPULAR CULTURE
Feminist Perspectives on Popular Culture - Lana Rakow
Advertising and Consumer Culture - Douglas Kellner
Racism and the American Way of Media - Ash Corea
Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Identity - Ali Mohammadi
Television News - Richard Gruneau and Robert A Hackett
US Media Coverage of the World - Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi
Popular Music and Mass Culture - Iain Chambers
Cinema and Communication - Ron Mottram
Myths In and About Television - Sari Thomas
Sport and the Spectacle - Michael Real
Culture and Communication - Alan O'Connor
Forms of Media as Ways of Knowing - Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi
How Are Media Born? - Brian Winston
PART TWO: MEDIA, POWER AND CONTROL
Media in the US Political Economy - Edward Herman
Mass Media and the US Presidency - Cedric J Robinson
The Tug-of-War over the First Amendment - Donna A Demac and John Downing
Control Mechanisms Inside the Media - Mark Schulman
Western Europe - Denis McQuail
"Mixed Model" Under Threat?
Soviet Media Before and After Glasnost - John Downing
PART THREE: AUDIENCES AND USERS
The Nature of the Audience - Ien Ang
Tracking the Audience - Oscar H Gandy Jr
Alternative Media and the Boston Tea Party - John Downing
PART FOUR: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Computers and Communication - Karen Paulsell
New Communication Technologies - Donna A Demac
A Plug 'n' Play World?
Information Imbalance - Cees Hamelink
Core and Periphery
PART FIVE: MASS CULTURE AND POPULAR CULTURE
Feminist Perspectives on Popular Culture - Lana Rakow
Advertising and Consumer Culture - Douglas Kellner
Racism and the American Way of Media - Ash Corea
Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Identity - Ali Mohammadi
Television News - Richard Gruneau and Robert A Hackett
US Media Coverage of the World - Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi
Popular Music and Mass Culture - Iain Chambers
Cinema and Communication - Ron Mottram
Myths In and About Television - Sari Thomas
Sport and the Spectacle - Michael Real