ISBN:
9781408285251
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (703 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Reading Media Theory : Thinkers, Approaches and Contexts
DDC:
302.2301
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
What does the Frankfurt School have to say about the creative industries? Does the spread of Google prove we now live in an information society? How is Madonna an example of postmodernism? How new is new media? Does the power of Facebook mean we're all media makers now?This groundbreaking volume - part reader, part textbook - helps you to engage thoroughly with some of the major voices that have come to define the landscape of theory in media studies, from the public sphere to postmodernism, from mass communication theory to media effects, from production to reception and beyond. But much more
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Timeline; How to use this book; Publisher's acknowledgements; About the authors; 1 Introduction; Part I Reading theory; 2 What is theory?; 3 What is reading?; Part II Key thinkers and schools of thought; 4 Liberal press theory Reading: Mill, J.S. (1997 [1859]) 'Of the liberty of thought and discussion', in Bromley, M. and O'Malley, T. (eds) A Journalism Reader, London: Routledge, pp. 22-6.; 5 F.R. Leavis Reading: Leavis, F.R. (1930) Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture,Cambridge: Minority Press.
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6 The Frankfurt school Reading: Horkheimer, M. and Adorno, T.W. (2002 [1944]) Dialectic of Enlightenment:Philosophical fragments, translated by Jephcott, E., Stanford, California:Stanford University Press. Excerpt from Chapter 4, 'The culture industry:enlightenment as mass deception', pp. 94-8.7 Harold D. Lasswell Reading: Lasswell, H.D. (1948) 'The structure and function of communicationin society', in Bryson, L. (ed.) The Communication of Ideas, New York:Harper and Brothers
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8 The Columbia school Reading: Lazarsfeld, P.F. and Merton, R.K. (1948) 'Mass communication,popular taste and organized social action', in Bryson, L. (ed.) TheCommunication of Ideas, New York: Harper and Brothers, pp. 95-118.9 C. Wright Mills: Mass society theory Reading: Mills, C.W. (1956) 'The mass society', in Mills, C.W. (ed.)The Power Elite, London: Oxford University Press, pp. 298-324.; 10 The Toronto school Reading: Innis, H.A. (1951) 'The bias of communication', in Innis, H.A.,The Bias of Communication, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 33-60.
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11 The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Reading: Hall, S. (1980c) 'Encoding/Decoding', in Culture, Media, Language:Working papers in cultural studies, 1972-9, Hall, S., Hobson, D., Lowe, A.and Willis, P. (eds), London: Hutchinson, pp. 128-38.Part III Approaches to media theory; 12 Political economy Reading: Herman, E.S. (1995a) 'Media in the US political economy', inDowning, J., Mohammadi, A. and Sreberny-Mohammadi, A. (eds) Questioningthe Media: A critical introduction, 2nd edition, London: Sage, pp. 77-93.
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13 Public sphere Reading: Habermas, J. (1974 [1964]) 'The public sphere: an encyclopediaarticle', New German Critique 3 (1): 49-55.14 Media effects Reading: Gauntlett, D. (2005) 'Ten things wrong with the media "effects" model',Theory.org.uk: the Media Theory Site, www.theory.org.uk/tenthings.html.; 15 Structuralism Reading: Todorov, T. (1990 [1978]) Genres in Discourse, translated byPorter, C., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 27-38.; 16 Feminist media theory Reading: van Zoonen, L. (1994) Feminist Media Studies, London: Sage,pp. 11-18, 21-8.
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17 Cultural theory Reading: Williams, R. (1961) The Long Revolution, Orchard Park:Broadview Press, pp. 57-70.
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