Media and PowerMedia and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society. |
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... central role of mass communications in the making of modern society. It provides insights into the influences that shape the media, both past and present. It also offers alternative ways of thinking about the media's relationship to ...
... central thesis of liberal media history is that this process of democratization was enormously strengthened by the development of modern mass media. This thesis is organized around two key arguments, the first of which is that the media ...
... central concern of the feminist narrative. This will receive a fuller, more direct exposition than the liberal one since it is less familiar. Indeed, it is usually ignored entirely in conventional media history. In the early eighteenth ...
... central concerns of women as winning and keeping a man, home-making, motherhood and looking good. The ideal of domestic femininity was also rendered more compelling by being articulated to other ideologies. It became part of the ...
... central heating and the fridge became commonplace. Mass consumption made modern life varied, pleasurable and comfortable.22 A central theme of this celebratory history is that the rise of the market was a democratizing force. In the ...