Hodkinson, Paul.
Media, Culture and Society : an introduction / by Paul Hodkinson. - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2011. - x, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Media technologies -- Media industry -- Media content -- Media users -- Media as manipulation? Marxism and ideology -- The construction of news -- Public service or personal entertainment? Controlling media orientation -- Decline of the national public: commercialization, fragmentation and globalization -- Media, ethnicity and diaspora -- Media, gender and sexuality -- Media communities: subcultures, fans and identity groups -- Saturation, fluidity and loss of meaning
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 (including questions of the media and manipulation, the construction of news, public service broadcasting, censorship, commercialization); Media, Identity and Culture (which covers issues of the media and ethnicity, gender, subcultures, audiences and fans)."--pub. desc.
9781412920520 (hbk.) 1412920523 (hbk.) 1412920531 (pbk.) 9781412920537 (pbk.) 9781412920520
2009941862
015589514
Mass media.
Mass media--Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Médias.
Médias--Aspect social.
Culture populaire.
P 94 / .H63 2011
302.23
Media, Culture and Society : an introduction / by Paul Hodkinson. - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2011. - x, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Media technologies -- Media industry -- Media content -- Media users -- Media as manipulation? Marxism and ideology -- The construction of news -- Public service or personal entertainment? Controlling media orientation -- Decline of the national public: commercialization, fragmentation and globalization -- Media, ethnicity and diaspora -- Media, gender and sexuality -- Media communities: subcultures, fans and identity groups -- Saturation, fluidity and loss of meaning
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 (including questions of the media and manipulation, the construction of news, public service broadcasting, censorship, commercialization); Media, Identity and Culture (which covers issues of the media and ethnicity, gender, subcultures, audiences and fans)."--pub. desc.
9781412920520 (hbk.) 1412920523 (hbk.) 1412920531 (pbk.) 9781412920537 (pbk.) 9781412920520
2009941862
015589514
Mass media.
Mass media--Social aspects.
Popular culture.
Médias.
Médias--Aspect social.
Culture populaire.
P 94 / .H63 2011
302.23