Media, culture and society : an introduction

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Title:

Author:

Hodkinson, Paul.

ISBN:

9781412920520

9781412920537

Personal Author:

Hodkinson, Paul.

Publication Information:

London : SAGE, 2011.

Physical Description:

[xii], 320 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

Mass media.

Mass media -- Social aspects.

Popular culture.

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Summary

′In his beautifully balanced, clear and broad-ranging account of a fast-changing field, Paul Hodkinson has successfully brought together myriad perspectives with which to critically analyse today′s media culture and media society′ - Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Media & communication, LSE

Clearly organized, systematic and combining a critical survey of the field with a finely judged assessment of cutting edge developments, this book provides a ′must have′ contribution to media and communication studies.

The text is organized into three distinctive parts, which fall neatly into research and teaching requirements: Elements of the Media (which covers media technologies, the organization of the media industry, media content and media users); Media, Power and Control (which addresses questions of the media and manipulation, the construction of news, public service broadcasting, censorship, commercialization); and Media, Identity and Culture (which covers issues of the media and ethnicity, gender, subcultures, audiences and fans).

The book is notable for:

* Logical and coherent organization

* Clarity of expression

* Use of relevant examples

* Fair minded criticism

* Zestful powers of analysis

It has all of the qualities to be adopted as core introductory text in the large and buoyant field of media and communication studies.