Communication and Society
About the Book Series
This series encompasses the broad field of media and cultural studies. Its main concerns are the media and the public sphere: on whether the media empower or fail to empower popular forces in society; media organizations and public policy; political communication; and the role of media entertainment, ranging from potboilers and the human interest story to rock music and TV sport.
Tabloid Television: Popular Journalism and the 'Other News'
1st Edition
By John Langer
December 22, 1997
Fires, floods, accidents, celebrity lifestyles, heroic acts of humble people, cute acts by family pets and the weather. Television's non-news about non-events takes up an increasingly large part of contemporary broadcast journalism, but is regularly dismissed by television pundits as having no ...
A Journalism Reader
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Bromley, Tom O'Malley
October 15, 1997
A Journalism Reader is a comprehensive collection of essential writings on journalism history and practice from the eighteenth century to the present day. It brings together the work of journalists, philosophers, historians, newspaper owners, cultural theorists and specialists in public policy and ...
The Global Jukebox: The International Music Industry
1st Edition
By Robert Burnett
January 30, 1996
Popular music is with us constantly. It is part of our everyday enviroment and in global terms it is now perhaps the most universal means of communication.The Global Jukebox is the first comprehensive study of the international music industry at a time of great change, as the entertainment industry...
The Crisis of Public Communication
1st Edition
By Jay Blumler, Michael Gurevitch
December 21, 1995
The role of the mass media in the world of politcs has become increasingly influential and controversial. This book traces the origins and development of this phenomena, basing discussion on critiques of BBC election coverage since 1966....
In Garageland: Rock, Youth and Modernity
1st Edition
By Johan Fornäs, Ulf Lindberg, Ove Sernhede
May 30, 1995
Seeking to understand youth culture through its visual and musical expression, In Garageland presents a pioneering ethnographic study of rock bands and their fans. Topics include class as well as sexual conflicts; mainstream and deviant subcultures, and the complex social, psychological and ethical...
Talk on Television: Audience Participation and Public Debate
1st Edition
By Sonia Livingstone, Peter Lunt
December 28, 1993
Not only is everyday conversation increasingly dependent on television, but more and more people are appearing on television to discuss social and personal issues. Is any public good served by these programmes or are they simply trashy entertainment which fills the schedules cheaply? Talk on ...
We Keep America on Top of the World: Television Journalism and the Public Sphere
1st Edition
By Daniel Hallin
December 06, 1993
We Keep America on Top of the World is a lucid exploration of contemporary American journalism, with particular emphasis on its influential and controversial conponent - television news. Daniel Hallin's discussion encompasses the central and most controversial issues in the study of journalism: the...
Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Graeme Turner
November 15, 1993
Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.Participating in the `de-centring' of cultural studies - considering what perspectives other than the European and the ...
Television Producers
1st Edition
By Jeremy Tunstall
November 15, 1993
Covering all the major areas of television production, this in-depth work highlights the widely varying influences, difficulties and opportunities at work in the industry. Each kind of producer across the seven areas here examined faces the same practical issues of budget, talent and equipment ...
Communication and Citizenship: Journalism and the Public Sphere
1st Edition
By Peter Dahlgren, Colin Sparks
November 12, 1993
Looks at how the media can inform the general public about the world at a time when public service broadcasting is under attack and the popular press plays to the market with an output of sensationalism....
Getting the Message: News, Truth, and Power
1st Edition
Edited
By John Eldridge
July 14, 1993
The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an ideal introduction to recent work by the Group. Contributors discuss themes such as the relationship between the media and public opinion, the emergence of TV...
Fields in Vision: Television Sport and Cultural Transformation
1st Edition
By Garry Whannel
November 17, 1992
Fields in Vision offers a comprehensive and analytical study of the international phenomenon of television sports coverage. Garry Whannel considers the historical development of sport on television, the growth of sponsorship and the way that television and sponsorship have re-shaped sport in the ...