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.
Critical Communication Studies: Essays on Communication, History and Theory in America
1st Edition
By Hanno Hardt
April 10, 1992
The development of communication studies has been a lively process of adoption and integration of theoretical constructs from Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies. Critical Communication Studies describes the intellectual and professional forces that have shaped research interests and ...
Media Moguls
1st Edition
By Michael Palmer, Jeremy Tunstall
December 23, 1991
The emergence of a few powerful individuals in control of large sections of mass communication industries has coincided with world-wide media de-regulation. In the first book to take a close look at media moguls as a species, Jeremy Tunstall and Michael Palmer show how a handful of own-and-operate ...
Potboilers: Methods, Concepts and Case Studies in Popular Fiction
1st Edition
By Jerry Palmer
December 20, 1991
Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative - in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, media and cultural studies. The book introduces and summarizes two decades of debate about mass-produced fictions and ...
Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media
1st Edition
By Brian McNair
August 06, 1991
The reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have brought tumultuous change to political, social and economic life in the Soviet Union. But how have these changes affected Soviet press and television reporting? Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media examines the changing role of Soviet journalism from its ...
Seeing and Believing: The Influence of Television
1st Edition
By Greg Philo
November 16, 1990
Television has a powerful impact on our beliefs and is open to use as a political and propaganda tool. Greg Philo has taken a new approach to examining these issues by inviting groups of television viewers to write their own news programmes, based on news pictures from the 1984-5 British miners' ...