Understanding Media Cultures : Social Theory and Mass Communication,9780761973621

Understanding Media Cultures : Social Theory and Mass Communication

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780761973621
ISBN10: 0761973621
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-04-02
Publisher(s): Sage Publications Ltd
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Summary

The Second Edition of this book provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which social theory has attempted to theorize the importance of the media in contemporary society. Understanding Media Cultures is now fully revised and takes account of the recent theoretical developments associated with New Media and Information Society, as well as the audience and the public sphere.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(8)
Marxism and Mass Communication Research
9(38)
Debates within Political Economy and Ideology: Raymond Williams, Glasgow University Media Group and Stuart Hall
Marxism, Political Economy and Ideology
9(2)
Raymond Williams: Communications and the Long Revolution
11(4)
Cultural Materialism and Hegemony
15(3)
Raymond Williams and Material Culture: Television and the Press
18(2)
Raymond Williams and Communication Theory
20(6)
The Glasgow University Media Group and Television Bias
26(1)
Two Case Studies: Bad News and Good News
26(2)
The Eye of the Beholder and Objectivity in Media Studies
28(4)
Ideology and the Glasgow University Media Group
32(2)
Stuart Hall, Mass Communications and Hegemony
34(1)
Policing the Crisis: the Press, Moral Panics and the Rise of the New Right
35(1)
Ideology: the Return of the Repressed?
36(5)
Encoding and Decoding Media Discourse
41(1)
The Over-inflation of Discourse and Other Related Critiques
42(4)
Summary
46(1)
Habermas, Mass Culture and the Public Sphere
47(28)
Public Cultures
47(1)
The Bourgeois Public Sphere
48(3)
Habermas, Mass Culture and the Early Frankfurt School
51(5)
Problems with Mass Culture: Habermas and the Frankfurt School
56(6)
The Public Sphere and Public Broadcasting
62(6)
Habermas, the Public Sphere and Citizenship
68(6)
Summary
74(1)
Critical Perspectives within Audience Research
75(43)
Problems in Interpretation, Agency, Structure and Ideology
The Emergence of Critical Audience Studies
75(3)
David Morley and the Television Audience: Encoding/Decoding Revisited
78(1)
Semiotics, Sociology and the Television Audience
79(4)
Class, Power and Ideology in Domestic Leisure
83(6)
John Fiske and the Pleasure of Popular Culture
89(3)
Life's More Fun with the Popular Press
92(2)
Pointless Populism or Resistant Pleasures?
94(8)
Feminism and Soap Opera: Reading into Pleasure
102(1)
Feminism, Mass Culture and Watching Dallas
103(2)
Psychoanalysis, Identity and Utopia
105(3)
Reading Magazine Cultures
108(5)
Feminism and Critical Theory
113(3)
Summary
116(2)
Marshall McLuhan and the Cultural Medium
118(30)
Space, Time and Implosion in the Global Village
Technical Media
118(1)
Innis, McLuhan and Canadian Social Theory
119(2)
The Medium is the Message
121(7)
Space and Time: Technology and Cultural Studies
128(4)
Oral, Print and Modern Cultures: Jack Goody and Anthony Giddens
132(6)
More Critical Observations
138(8)
Summary
146(2)
Baudrillard's Blizzards
148(36)
Postmodernity, Mass Communications and Symbolic Exchange
Postmodernism as a Heterogeneous Field
148(1)
Baudrillard, Althusser and Debord
149(4)
Postmodernism, Symbolic Exchange and Marxism
153(9)
The French McLuhan: Simulations, Hyperreality and the Masses
162(5)
Baudrillard and Jameson
167(6)
Baudrillard's Irrationalism
173(9)
Summary
182(2)
New Media and the Information Society
184(32)
Schiller, Castells, Virilio and Cyberfeminism
Herb Schiller and Media Imperialism
186(6)
Informationalism, Networks and Social Movements: Manuel Castells
192(4)
The Limitations of Informational Politics
196(4)
Virilio, Speed and Communication
200(6)
Virilio and the Media of Mass Communications
206(4)
Critical Questions within Cyberfeminism
210(4)
Summary
214(2)
Conclusion
216(10)
The Three Paradigms of Mass Communication Research
216(10)
Possible Futures
223(3)
Glossary 226(6)
Notes 232(3)
References 235(15)
Index 250

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