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Key concepts in media and communications / Paul Jones and David Holmes.
Annenberg Library - Reference P90 .J55 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jones, Paul, 1954-
- Series:
- SAGE key concepts
- SAGE key concepts series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communication.
- Mass media.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Media and communication
- Media and communications
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : SAGE, 2011.
- Summary:
- The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding. Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension.
- Key Concepts in Media and Communications
- This book covers the key concepts central to understanding recent developments in media and communications studies. Its index also provides further points of entry. Wide-ranging in scope and accessible in style it sets out a useful, clear map of the important theories, methods and debates.
- The entries critically explore the limits of a key concept as much as the traditions that define it. They include clear definitions, are introduced within the wider context of the field and each one:
- is fully cross-referenced
- is appropriately illustrated by the use of examples, tables and diagrams
- provides a guide to further reading.
- This book is an essential resource for students in media and communications and for those studying sociology, cultural sociology, cultural studies and sociology of media. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Articulation
- Audience
- Broadcasting
- Capitalism
- Communication(s)
- Convergence
- Criticism/critique
- Cultural form
- Culture
- Culture industry
- Cyberculture
- Deconstruction
- Digital
- Discourse
- Embodiment
- Encoding/decoding
- Freedom of communication
- Genre
- Globalization
- Hegemony
- Ideology
- Identity
- Image
- Influence
- Information society
- Interactivity
- Mass
- Media effects
- Media/medium
- Mobile privatization
- Modern
- Moral panic
- Network (society)
- News values
- Popular/populist
- Postmodernism
- Public sphere
- Regulation
- Ritual
- Sign
- Simulacra
- Tabloidization
- Technoculture
- Technological determinism
- Time-space compression.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-252) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781412928212
- 1412928214
- 9781412928229
- 1412928222
- OCLC:
- 768769800
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