Descripciones mejoradas de Syndetics:

This practical, highly accessible volume is designed to introduce students and general readers to the field of media studies, inviting readers to be active participants in the process of understanding the importance of media today. Questioning the Media is an introductory text with a difference - no previous book has provided so wide a sweep of coverage on critical approaches to communication and the media from top international and interdisciplinary authors. They present diverse critical perspectives on media communication including political economy, cultural studies, Frankfurt School critical theory, feminism, audience ethnography and cultural dependency.

Topics discussed include: freedom of information in a censorship age; managerial control mechanisms within media institutions; Soviet media before and after glasnost; commercial surveillance of audiences; information technology in the developed and under-developed worlds; media representations of gender and race; sports coverage; and film as art, as industry and as language.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Part I Introductory Perspectives: Culture, History, Technology
• Culture and Communication
• Forms of Media as Ways of Knowing
• Mediating Communication
• What Happens?
• How Are Media Born and Developed?
• Part II Media, Power and Control
• Media in the US Political Economy
• Mass Media and the US Presidency
• The Tug-of-War over the First Amendment
• Control Mechanisms of National News Making
• Britain, Canada, Mexico and the United States
• Western European Media
• The Mixed Model under Threat
• Media in Multicultural Nations
• Some Comparisons
• Media, Dictatorship and the Reemergence of 'Civil Society'
• Part III Audiences and Users
• The Nature of the Audience
• Tracking the Audience
• Personal Information and Privacy
• Alternative Media and the Boston Tea Party
• Part IV Information Technologies
• Computers and Communication
• New Communication Technologies and Deregulation
• Information Imbalance across the Globe
• Part V Mass Media and Popular Culture
• Gender, Representation and the Media
• Advertising and Consumer Culture
• Racism and the American Way of Media
• Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Identity
• Popular Music
• Between Celebration and Despair
• Cinema and Communication
• AIDS News and News Cultures
• Global News Media Cover the World
• Myths in and about Television
• Entertainers and Economics
• Sport and the Spectacle

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

John Downing is Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the Univeristy of Texas, Austin. He is a co-editor of Questioning the Media (1990) and has contributed to the journals Media, Culture & Society and Discourse & Society

Dr Ali Mohammadi is Reader in the Department of English and Media Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is co-author with Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, of Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication and Cultureand The Iranian Revolution (1994). He is also co-editor of Questioning the Media(1994)

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Oliver Boyd-Barrett University of Leicester

Cees Hamelink University of Amsterdam

Ralph Negrine University of Leicester

John Tomlinson Nottingham Trent University