Media power : a sociological introduction /
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) This text offers a clear and succinct overview of a central debate in the study of the media, drawing together a wide range of theoretical and research-based material from both sides of the Atlantic. Written with a light touch and taking a level-headed...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : media power : from simple answers to complex questions
- No escape
- Violence in the media : into a dead end
- Back to the communication process
- Using the approach : applying the argument to media violence
- Conclusion
- 2. The media as definers of social reality
- Introduction
- Information delivery
- Researching media selectivity
- Media power as selectivity
- Getting beyond the issue of media selectivity : the idea of framing
- Conclusion
- 3. Whose frames
- Introduction
- The answers from media sociology
- Assessing the arguments
- Conclusion
- 4. The production of media messages : who sets the media agenda
- Introduction
- The sources of media stories
- The politics of media personnel : a liberal power elite
- Ownership and control
- The power of the audience : giving the public what it wants
- Organisational features
- Conclusion
- 5. Changing media agendas, widening public access
- Introduction
- Talk television
- Reality television : the (more) real thing
- The new media : caught in the web or freed by it
- The realities of electronic communication
- The typical user : citizen or netizen
- Issues of accuracy and interactivity
- Conclusion
- 6. Innocent entertainment : the sociological study of television fiction
- Introduction
- How to study television fiction : (1) the search for recurrent patterns
- How to study television fiction : (2) in search of universal structures
- How to study television fiction : (3) genre analysis
- How to study television fiction : (4) values and the culture industry
- Conclusion
- 7. Media audiences : couch potatoes or armchair intellectuals
- Introduction
- Previous swings and roundabouts
- The 'new audience' studies : getting off the roundabout
- The consumption of television
- Modifying the domestic : television as a thief of time and community
- Summary and conclusion
- 8. Conclusion : the future for media sociology
- The way forward : the views of Sonia Livingston
- Going digital : more channels, more choice
- A blessing in disguise, or radical desperation
- Lying down with the beast?