Media, culture and society : an introduction /

Main Author: Hodkinson, Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : Sage, 2011
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 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