The place of media power : pilgrims and witnesses of the media age / Nick Couldry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Couldry, Nick, author.

Couldry N Staff, Corporate Author.

Series:

Comedia.

Comedia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Influence.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 238 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

![CDATA[This fascinating study focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between ordinary people and the media. Couldry explores what happens when people who normally consume the media witness media processes in action, or even become the object of media attention themselves.]].

Contents:

part Part 1 A NEW THEORY OF MEDIA POWER

chapter 1 LOCATING MEDIA POWER

chapter 2 CHARTING MEDIA TERRITORY

chapter 3 MEDIA POWER: SOME HIDDEN DIMENSIONS

part Part 2 MEDIA PILGRIMS: ON THE SET OF CORONATION STREET

chapter GENERAL INTRODUCTION

chapter 4 ON THE ACTUAL STREET

chapter 5 THE REALITY OF THE FICTION

chapter 6 PLAYING WITH BOUNDARIES

part Part 3 MEDIA WITNESSES: TWO DECADES OF PROTEST

chapter 7 BRIGHTLINGSEA: THE DE-NATURALISATION OF THE MEDIA FRAME

chapter 8 ACTING WITHIN THE MEDIA FRAME

part Part 4 THE FUTURE OF THE MEDIA FRAME?

chapter 9 CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES BEYOND.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-230) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-61407-1

1-134-61408-X

1-280-33668-4

9786610336685

0-203-00762-X

0-203-15869-5

9780203007624

OCLC:

56993198