ISBN:
9780582298002
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (401 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Message Received
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉Message Received〈/I〉 brings together the most recent research findings of the Glasgow Media Group. It focuses on major public issues such as the impact of fictional violence on children and media coverage of ethnic minorities, the developing world and disasters. It examines media representations of mental illness and public understanding of risks about this and about other areas such as health and food safety. The Group has also studied controversies in the media such as the BSE crisis and other major events such as the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. 〈BR〉〈BR〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction: A critical media studies Greg Philo; Media effects and audience reception; Chapter 1 A sociology of media power: key issues in audience reception research; Chapter 2 The effective media; Violence, mental illness and suicide; Chapter 3 Children and film/video/TV violence; Chapter 4 Media and mental illness; Chapter 5 Producing serious soaps; Chapter 6 Audience responses to suicide in a television drama; Risk, health and food scares in the media
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7 Why go to casualty? Health fears and fictional televisionChapter 8 Risk, society and the media: now you see it, now you don't; Chapter 9 'Just another food scare?' Public understanding and the BSE crisis; Race, migration and media; Chapter 10 Race, advertising and the public face of television; Chapter 11 Race, migration and media; Chapter 12 Refugees, migrants and the fall of the Berlin Wall; International development, disasters and crisis reporting; Chapter 13 The media and the Rwanda crisis: effects on audiences and public policy
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 14 The media and Africa: images of disaster and rebellionCritical media studies and critical journalism; Chapter 15 Teaching journalism in Britain; Chapter 16 Conclusions on media audiences and message reception; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
