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  • Project Muse  (3)
  • Mass media and culture  (3)
  • General works  (3)
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    Online Resource
    Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse
    ISBN: 9780253016409 , 0253016401
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrations.
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Edition: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    Series Statement: African expressive cultures
    Series Statement: African expressive cultures
    DDC: 306.096
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    Keywords: Pop-Kultur ; Film ; Musik ; Comic ; Rezeption ; Globalisierung ; Mass media Social aspects ; Mass media and culture ; Popular culture ; Nigeria ; Tansania ; Africa Social life and customs ; Africa Civilization
    Abstract: Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own purposes as photo novels, comic books, songs, posters, and even scam letters. These African appropriations reveal the broad scope of cultural mediation that is characteristic of our hyperlinked age. Krings argues that there is no longer an "original" or "faithful copy," but only endless transformations that thrive in the fertile ground of African popular culture.
    Note: Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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  • 2
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    Online Resource
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
    ISBN: 9781452944562 , 1452944563
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Electronic mediations volume 46
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Mass media and culture ; Mass media Social aspects ; Mass media
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9780814762875
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Mass media and culture ; Mass media Economic aspects ; Mass media Social aspects ; Mass media Public opinion ; Mass media Influence ; Mass media Moral and ethical aspects ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General ; USA
    Abstract: "In an ideal world, journalists act selflessly and in the public interest regardless of the financial consequences. However, in reality, news outlets no longer provide the most important and consequential stories to audiences; instead, news producers adjust news content in response to ratings, audience demographics, and opinion polls. While such criticisms of the news media are widely shared, few can agree on the causes of poor news quality. The People's News argues that the incentives in the American free market drive news outlets to report news that meets audience demands, rather than democratic ideals.In short, audiences' opinions drive the content that so often passes off as "the news." The People's News looks at news not as a type of media but instead as a commodity bought and sold on the market, comparing unique measures of news content to survey data from a wide variety of sources. Joseph Uscinski's rigorous analysis shows news firms report certain issues over others - not because audiences need to know them, but rather, because of market demands. Uscinski also demonstrates that the influence of market demands also affects the business of news, prohibiting journalists from exercising independent judgment and determining the structure of entire news markets as well as firm branding. Ultimately, the results of this book indicate profit-motives often trump journalistic and democratic values.The findings also suggest that the media actively responds to audiences, thus giving the public control over their own information environment. Uniting the study of media effects and media content, The People's News presents a powerful challenge to our ideas of how free market media outlets meet our standards for impartiality and public service. Joseph Uscinski is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Miami"--...
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