Burton, Graeme
Media and society : critical perspectives / Graeme Burton. - Maidenhead, England : Open University Press, 2005. - xiv, 378 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Media institutions: key areas and their implications for understanding media - 2. Media texts: features and deconstructions - 3. Audiences and effects: defining audiences and exploring their relationship with texts - 4. The media and violence: questioning violence: problems with measuring effects - 5. Women's magazines: manufacturing a gendered space: questions of guilt and pleasure - 6. Popular music: questioning the popular, questioning control, questioning the global - 7. Approaches to film: the missing British film industry: audiences, gazing and meanings - 8.The media and new technology: the effects and implications of technologies for the media and their consumption - 9. Advertising: its relationship with the media audience: the consequences for society and culture - 10. Television soaps: the question of the gendered audience: the nature of soap operas: the effects of soaps on TV drama - 11. News: different kinds of news: construction the world - 12. Sport and representation: media making meanings about sport: sport making meanings about ideology, race and gender - 13. Globalization and the media: questions of power and of cultural exchange.
0335215890 (hbk.)
Mass media--Social aspects.
302.23 / BUR
Media and society : critical perspectives / Graeme Burton. - Maidenhead, England : Open University Press, 2005. - xiv, 378 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Media institutions: key areas and their implications for understanding media - 2. Media texts: features and deconstructions - 3. Audiences and effects: defining audiences and exploring their relationship with texts - 4. The media and violence: questioning violence: problems with measuring effects - 5. Women's magazines: manufacturing a gendered space: questions of guilt and pleasure - 6. Popular music: questioning the popular, questioning control, questioning the global - 7. Approaches to film: the missing British film industry: audiences, gazing and meanings - 8.The media and new technology: the effects and implications of technologies for the media and their consumption - 9. Advertising: its relationship with the media audience: the consequences for society and culture - 10. Television soaps: the question of the gendered audience: the nature of soap operas: the effects of soaps on TV drama - 11. News: different kinds of news: construction the world - 12. Sport and representation: media making meanings about sport: sport making meanings about ideology, race and gender - 13. Globalization and the media: questions of power and of cultural exchange.
0335215890 (hbk.)
Mass media--Social aspects.
302.23 / BUR