Download or read book The Mass Media and Power in Modern Britain written by John Eric Thomas Eldridge and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mass Media and Power in Britain is a thorough, lievely introduction to the role, importance, and power of the mass media in contemporary British society. What is the mass media, and how does it help shape life in modern Britain? After introducing the student to discussions around these questions, the authors examine the historical development of the mass media, issues of ownership, and the roots of its power in the public and political sphere. Contemporary questions surrounding todays media are also addressed. What is the role of the audience? How do people take pleasure from media culture? What are the issues surrounding the news, advertising, public services broadcasting, the shaping of public understanding, censorship, violence, and `moral panics'? The authors also look towards the future, considering prospects for a global media and the possible effects of the information superhighway. An invaluable introduction and point of reference for students ofsociology, media studies, politics and human geography, The Mass Media and Power in Modern Britain will be essential reading for anyone interested in our mass media _
Download or read book Media and Power written by James Curran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society. *How much power do the media have? *Who really controls the media? *What is the relationship between media and power in society? In this major new book, James Curran reviews the different answers which have been given, before advancing original interpretations in a series of ground-breaking essays. This book also provides a guided tour of the major debates in media studies. What part did the media play in the making of modern society? How did 'new media' change society in the past? Will radical media research recover from its mid-life crisis? Is public service television the dying product of the nation in an age of globalization? Media and Power provides both a clear introduction to media research and an innovative analysis of media power.
Download or read book The Mass Media written by Peter Golding and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1974 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics and the Mass Media in Britain written by Ralph Negrine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully-updated new edition of Politics and the Mass Media provides a comprehensive introduction to the role of mass communications in politics at all levels, from election campaigns, news reports and lobbying groups to the media activities of pressure groups. The relationship between politics, politicians and the media is a matter of increasingly contentious debate, as politicians' awareness of the importance of the media becomes more sophisticated amidst rapidly-advancing media technology and control. Providing a review of the nature and content of political communications and of recent theoretical developments, Negrine addresses the issues surrounding today's mass media, including cable and satellite television, investigation of the press, the relationship between the state and broadcasing institutions and the ever-present question of whether or not Britain needs a media policy. This new edition includes: * Case studies from television and the press * Fully revised text with updated sections on the press, broadcasting and media legislation * Brand new chapters on Europe and globalisation
Download or read book Power Without Responsibility written by James Curran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-10 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power Without Responsibility is a classic introduction to the history, sociology, theory and politics of the media in Britain. It is an essential guide, both for students and teachers of media and communication studies, and for all those involved in the production and consumption of the media. The new edition has been substantially revised to bring it right up-to-date with developments in the media industry, new media technologies and changes in the political and academic debates surrounding media policy. In this new edition, the authors consider: * whether we are on the threshold of a new communications revolution * the role of global media empires * the rise of video, cable and satellite * the global information society and contradictions in media policy * the BBC and broadcasting at the end of the 1990s * the evolving relationship of the press and the Conservative party. Assessing the press and broadcasting at a time of radical change, the authors suggest a manifesto for media reform.
Download or read book Power Without Responsibility written by James Curran and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth edition of this title is a guide for all those involved with the production and consumption of the media. It includes up-to-date analysis of new media and legislation, New Labour conservatism and coverage of Scottish and Welsh devolution.
Download or read book Politics and the Mass Media in Britain written by Ralph M. Negrine and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Powers of the Press written by Aled Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of the popular press presents all modern societies with difficulties. It is, however, a problem with a history: the hold of the press over public opinion was debated with urgency throughout the 19th century. This book looks at the ways in which individuals, pressure groups, political organisations and the state sought to understand the mass communications media of the 19th century, and use them to influence public opinion and effect moral and social reform. Aled Jones addresses the problem by using three approaches: first he considers the 19th century theories of the influence of communications media on patterns of social thought and behaviour; then he examines attitudes towards the press in both high and popular culture; finally he explores the social and intellectual world of the reader, the consumer both of the press as a commodity and of the hidden moral strategies that were built into it. The tensions between Victorian moral imperatives and the operation of the free commercial market raised issues of great public concern, such as whether the mass media should be under private or public control. These tensions have dominated the way in which Britain and other western societies have thought about the newer broadcasting media, but their origins are older and more complex than studies of contemporary media acknowledge.
Download or read book Media and Democracy written by James Curran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media and Democracy addresses key topics and themes in relation to democratic theory, media and technology, comparative media studies, media and history, and the evolution of media research. For example: How does TV entertainment contribute to the democratic life of society? Why are Americans less informed about politics and international affairs than Europeans? How should new communications technology and globalisation change our understanding of the democratic role of the media? What does the rise of international ezines reveal about the limits of the internet? What is the future of journalism? Does advertising influence the media? Is American media independence from government a myth? How have the media influenced the development of modern society? Professor Curran’s response to these questions provides both a clear introduction to media research, written for university undergraduates studying in different countries, and an innovative analysis written by one of the field’s leading scholars.
Download or read book The British Press and Broadcasting Since 1945 written by Colin Seymour-Ure and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1996-06-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Colin Seymour-Ure's history of the press and broadcasting in post-war Britain offers a concise and fully up-to-date overview of the development of the media and its central role in British society. The book covers the period from a time when the phrase "mass media" was barely used, to the era of international media conglomerates and global communications. Supported by detailed tables, the analysis traces changes in what was available and what people used - the size and ownership of the national and provincial press; the growth of television and the impact of ITV; the decline and revival of radio; the continuities and differences in what people read, looked at, listened to and liked. This updated edition also covers recent developments such as the proliferation of satellite use, upheavel at the BBC, and the reform of ITV in the 1990 Broadcasting Act. Such developments place more weight than ever on the relations between media and politics. Seymour-Ure's analysis focuses on the key question of accountability - the accountability of politicians through media to the public, and the accountability of media themselves.
Download or read book Power Without Responsibility written by James Curran and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this well established text, first published in 1981, breaks new ground in two ways. Its provides a critical account of all the major proposals for reforming the media in the post-Peacock era, from the new right's programme for "electronic publishing" to the new left's plan for the international regulation of satellite TV. It also offers the only available, up-to-date analysis of recent media developments from the launch of the first quality daily in over a century to the rise and fall of Eddy Shah. The book is divised into four parts : press history, broadcasting history, theories of the media, and politics of the media. It is a standard book for media studies students, and is widely used on politics, sociology and social history courses. It has also acquired a reputation outside academic circles for being an exceptionally well written and authoritative guide to the issues raised by the contemporary press and broadcasting. -4ème de couv.
Download or read book The Political Impact of Mass Media written by Colin Seymour-Ure and published by London : Constable ; Beverly Hills, Calif : Sage Publications. This book was released on 1974 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of the Media written by John Whale and published by Manchester : Manchester University Press ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Politics and the Media in Britain written by Raymond Kuhn and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2007-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new text provides an up-to-date account of the complex interrelationship between politics and the media in Britain, from ownership and globalization to pressure groups and the role of the media in elections.
Download or read book Politics and the Media in Britain written by Raymond Kuhn and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important new text provides an up-to-date account of the complex interrelationship between politics and the media in Britain, from ownership and globalization to pressure groups and the role of the media in elections.
Download or read book Advanced Studies in Media written by Joe Nicholas and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Studies in Media has been designed to offer a comprehensive and stimulating textbook for all students on advanced level media studies and communications studies courses.
Download or read book Get Me a Murder a Day written by Kevin Williams and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 1998 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a basic introduction to the development of mass communication in Britain. It examines the emergence of media industries and audiences in the context of issues of regulation and control. The focus is on the histories of the print, broadcasting and film media. The main landmarks in the development of these media are outlined as well as the key factors that have shaped the changing nature of their industrial organisation and structure and the character of their audiences. The book also examines how the growth of new forms of mass communication has always been accompanied by fears of their impact on popular opinions and behaviour. The concerns of powerful elites, news and information managers and moral entrepreneurs are treated as an integral part of the history of mass communication. Changing forms of censorship and control are examined throughout different historical periods. It begins with the birth of printing in the fifteenth century and traces emergence of the modern newspaper from the struggles of the nineteenth century radical press to the Wapping Revolution of the 1980s. The development of visual media is explored from the advent of the silent movies to the contemporary world of cable, satellite and the internet.
