Approaches to media : a reader / edited by Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Chris Newbold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyd-Barrett, Oliver.

Newbold, Chris, 1961-

Series:

Foundations in media

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Methodology.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

xiv, 562 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : E. Arnold ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Summary:

This volume illustrates and exemplifies the variety of ways in which the mass media have been researched over the past fifty or more years. It provides extracts from seminal works and relates them to developments in the field as a whole and to later works. The volume identifies the major divisions within the field, including mass society theory, the media effects tradition, political economy, the public sphere, media occupations and professionals, cultural hegemony, feminism, and "new" audience research.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0340652306

0340652292

OCLC:

32510027