Media, Culture and Society: An IntroductionSAGE, 15 ott 2010 - 336 pagine '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. |
Sommario
1 Introduction | 1 |
PART ONE ELEMENTS OF MEDIA | 17 |
2 Media Technologies | 19 |
3 Media Industry | 40 |
4 Media Content | 60 |
5 Media Users | 82 |
PART TWO MEDIA POWER AND CONTROL | 103 |
6 Media as Manipulation? Marxism and Ideology | 105 |
Commercialization Fragmentation and Globalization | 173 |
PART THREE MEDIA IDENTITY AND CULTURE | 195 |
10 Media Ethnicity and Diaspora | 197 |
11 Media Gender and Sexuality | 219 |
Subcultures Fans and Identity Groups | 243 |
13 Saturation Fluidity and Loss of Meaning | 265 |
Glossary | 285 |
300 | |