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Understanding media culture / Jostein Gripsrud

By: Gripsrud, Jostein.
Publisher: London : Arnold, c2002Description: 330 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0340720352.Subject(s): Mass media and culture | Mass media -- Influence | Mass media -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 302.23
Contents:
Acknowledgements. -- Pt. 1. The audience and the media: 1. Identity: the media and our understanding of ourselves. - 2. Influence: the media's power - and our own. - 3. Distinctions: social difference, lifestyle and taste. -- Pt. 2. Perspectives on media texts: 4. Semiotics: signs, codes and cultures. - 5. Hermeneutics: interpretation and understanding. - 6. Rhetoric: language, situation, purpose. - 7. Narratology: the forms and functions of stories. -- Pt. 3. Production: contexts and conditions: 8. Public sphere and democracy: ideals and realities - 9. Broadcasting: technology, society and policy - 10. Production: creativity, contexts and power. - Bibliography. - Index.
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Originally published as : Mediekultur, mediesamfunn. Oslo : Scandanavian University Press, 1999

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements. -- Pt. 1. The audience and the media: 1. Identity: the media and our understanding of ourselves. - 2. Influence: the media's power - and our own. - 3. Distinctions: social difference, lifestyle and taste. -- Pt. 2. Perspectives on media texts: 4. Semiotics: signs, codes and cultures. - 5. Hermeneutics: interpretation and understanding. - 6. Rhetoric: language, situation, purpose. - 7. Narratology: the forms and functions of stories. -- Pt. 3. Production: contexts and conditions: 8. Public sphere and democracy: ideals and realities - 9. Broadcasting: technology, society and policy - 10. Production: creativity, contexts and power. - Bibliography. - Index.

Translated from Norwegian.