Media, culture and society : an introduction / Paul Hodkinson
Imprint
Los Angeles : Sage, 2011
Descript
x, 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Introduction -- Media technologies -- Media industry -- Media content -- Media users -- Media as manipulation? Marxism and ideology -- The construction of news -- Public service or personal entertainment? Controlling media orientation -- Decline of the national public: commercialization, fragmentation and globalization -- Media, ethnicity and diaspora -- Media, gender and sexuality -- Media communities: subcultures, fans and identity groups -- Saturation, fluidity and loss of meaning