Key concepts in media and communications

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Title:

Key concepts in media and communications

Author:

Jones, Paul, 1954-

ISBN:

9781412928212

9781412928229

Personal Author:

Jones, Paul, 1954-

Publication Information:

London : SAGE, 2011.

Physical Description:

xiii, 256 p. : ill, ; 25 cm.

Series:

SAGE key concepts.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Articulation -- Audience -- Broadcasting -- Capitalism -- Communication(s) -- Convergence -- Criticism/critique -- Cultural form -- Culture -- Culture industry -- Cyberculture -- Deconstruction -- Digital -- Discourse -- Embodiment -- Encoding/decoding -- Freedom of communication -- Genre -- Globalization -- Hegemony -- Ideology -- Identity -- Image -- Influence -- Information society -- Interactivity -- Mass -- Media effects -- Media/medium -- Mobile privatization -- Modern -- Moral panic -- Network (society) -- News values -- Popular/populist -- Postmodernism -- Public sphere -- Regulation -- Ritual -- Sign -- Simulacra -- Tabloidization -- Technoculture -- Technological determinis -- Time-space compression.

Abstract:

This book covers the key concepts central to understanding recent developments in media and communications studies. Its index also provides further points of entry. Wide-ranging in scope and accessible in style it sets out a useful, clear map of the important theories, methods and debates. The entries critically explore the limits of a key concept as much as the traditions that define it.

Subject Term:

Communication.

Mass media.

Media -- Australia -- History.

Added Author:

Holmes, David, 1962-

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"A sprightly, critical and intelligent guided tour around the mansion of media and communications/cultural research... enormously useful for students and researchers." - James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London "A highly comprehensive guide to core concepts in media theory and criticism." - Andrew Goodwin, University of San Francisco "A great resource for new under-grads and something I urge my students to buy and use as a hand first ′port of call′ throughout their studies." - Paul Smith, De Montfort University This book covers the key concepts central to understanding recent developments in media and communications studies. Wide-ranging in scope and accessible in style it sets out a useful, clear map of the important theories, methods and debates. The entries critically explore the limits of a key concept as much as the traditions that define it. They include clear definitions, are introduced within the wider context of the field and each one:

is fully cross-referenced is appropriately illustrated with examples, tables and diagrams provides a guide to further reading.

This book is an essential resource for students of media and communications across sociology, cultural studies, creative industries and of course, media and communications courses.