Media and society : critical perspectives / Graeme Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Graeme.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkshire : Open University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This popular introductory book provides a clear introduction to the key ideas within media studies. The friendly writing style and everyday examples, which made the first edition a favourite with students and lecturers alike, has been retained and updated in this new edition.

Contents:

Front cover; Half title; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Figures and illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Media texts:Features and deconstructions; 2 Media institutions: Key areas and their implications for understanding media; 3 Audiences and effects: Defining audiences and exploring their relationships with texts; 4 Media - audience - influence: Questions of effects: politics, children, violence; 5 Popular music: Questioning the popular, questioning control, questioning the global; 6 The media and new technology: Technologies changing the media and changing consumption

7 Advertising: Its relationship with media industries and with audiences8 News: Different kinds of news: constructing the world; 9 Sport and representation: Media defining sport; sport as business; sport and meaning; 10 Globalization and the media: Questions of power and of cultural exchange; Glossary; References; Selected websites; Index; Back cover

Notes:

First published 2005. Reprinted 2007.

Includes glossary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-33820-3

9786613338204

0-335-23925-0

OCLC:

680623934