ISBN:
9780415193948
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (316 p)
Serie:
Communication and Society
Paralleltitel:
Print version De-Westernizing Media Studies
DDC:
302.23
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of media. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between mass communication and society
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1 Beyond globalization theory; Notes; References; Part 1 Transitional and mixed societies; 2 Rethinking media studies; THE CASE OF CHINA; Media commercialization3; Improvising media practices4; Uneven liberalization6; The Hong Kong connection8; RETHINKING MEDIA STUDIES; Benign market capitalism?; The bureaucratic-authoritarian state; The active audience; Concluding remarks; Notes; References; 3 Media theory after the fall of European communism; Note; References; 4 Media in South America; References
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
5 Television, gender, and democratization in the Middle East1Notes; References; 6 Power, profit, corruption, and lies; Notes; References; Part 2 Authoritarian neo-liberal societies; 7 Media, political power, and democratization in Mexico; Notes; References; 8 Modernization, globalization, and the powerful state; References; 9 State, capital, and media; Notes; References; 10 Globalized theories and national controls; CONTEMPORARY MALAYSIA: A BRIEF BACKGROUND; MALAYSIA'S CONTEMPORARY MEDIA: STATE CONTROL AND COMMERCIAL MOTIVATIONS; Television; The press; Legal controls
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
IMPORTED THEORIES, DOMESTIC CONTRADICTIONSDe-westernizing, demonizing and democratic space; Notes; References; Part 3 Authoritarian regulated societies; 11 The dual legacy of democracy and authoritarianism; Notes; References; 12 Media and power in Egypt; References; Part 4 Democratic neo-liberal societies; 13 Media and power in Japan; Bibliography; 14 Media power in the United States; THE MEDIA AND POLITICAL POWER; POWER I: MEDIA PORTRAYALS OF COERCION; Mediated crime; Understanding the culture business; POWER II: MEDIATED GOVERNMENT; How a commercial press reports on a complex government
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Origins of news agendas and sources of political informationThe rise of scandals and tabloid journalism; The irony of a free press; POWER III: MEDIATED CONSCIOUSNESS; Deeper problems of public consciousness; CONCLUSION; Notes; References; 15 Media and the decline of liberal corporatism in Britain; Notes; References; 16 De-Westernizing Australia?; References; Part 5 Democratic regulated societies; 17 Media and power transitions in a small country; Note; References; 18 Political complexity and alternative models of journalism; Notes; References; 19 South African media, 1994-7; Notes; References
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
20 Mediating modernityA HINDU EPIC GOES PRIME TIME; Viewers talk about the Ramayan; NARRATIVES OF COMMUNITY: COUNTER-PUBLIC SPHERE IN A TRANSITIONAL SOCIETY; Notes; References; 21 Performing a dream and its dissolution; References; 22 Squaring the circle?; References; Index
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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