Message Received
1st Edition
Published on 5. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-582-29800-2 (ISBN)
Description
Message Received brings together the most recent research findings of the Glasgow Media Group. It focuses on major public issues such as the impact of fictional violence on children and media coverage of ethnic minorities, the developing world and disasters. It examines media representations of mental illness and public understanding of risks about this and about other areas such as health and food safety. The Group has also studied controversies in the media such as the BSE crisis and other major events such as the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.
Reviews / Votes
'The Glasgow Media Group have skills to rival any market research organisation, combined with a name independent researchers would die for.' Sunday TimesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-29800-2 (9780582298002)
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Person
Greg Philo is Research Director of the Glasgow University Media Unit, University of Glasgow.
Content
Acknowledgements Introduction: A Critical Media Studies (Greg Philo) Media Effects and Audience Reception 1. A Sociology of Media Power, Key Issues in Audience Reception Research (Jenny Kitzinger) 2. The Effective Media (David Miller and Greg Philo) Violence, Mental Illness and Suicide 3. Children and Film/Video/TV Violence (Greg Philo) 4. Media and Mental Illness (Greg Philo) 5. Producing Serious Soaps (Lesley Henderson) 6. Audience Responses to Suicide in a Television Drama (Greg Philo and Lesley Henderson) Risk, Health and Food Scares in the Media 7. Why go to Casualty? Health Fears and Fictional Television (Greg Philo and Lesley Henderson) 8. Risk, Society and the Media: Now You See it, Now You Don't (John Eldridge) 9. Just Another Food Scare? Public Understanding and the BSE Crisis (Jacquie Reilly) Race, Migration and Media 10. Race and the Public Face of Television (Lisa Beattie, Furzana Khan and Greg Philo) 11. Race, Migration and Media (Greg Philo and Liza Beattie) 12. Refugees, Migrants and the Fall of the Berlin Wall (Greg McLaughlin) International Development, Disasters and Crisis Reporting 13. The Media and the Rwanda Crisis (Greg Philo, Lindsey Hilsum, Liza Beattie and Rick Holliman) 14. The Media and Africa: Images of Disaster and Rebellion (Liza Beattie, David Miller, Emma Miller and Greg Philo) Critical Media Studies and Critical Journalism 15. Teaching Journalism in Britain (Kevin Williams) 16. Conclusions on Media Audiences and Message Reception Appendices Bibliography Index