Media and PowerMedia and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society. *How much power do the media have? *Who really controls the media? *What is the relationship between media and power in society? In this major new book, James Curran reviews the different answers which have been given, before advancing original interpretations in a series of ground-breaking essays. This book also provides a guided tour of the major debates in media studies. What part did the media play in the making of modern society? How did 'new media' change society in the past? Will radical media research recover from its mid-life crisis? Is public service television the dying product of the nation in an age of globalization? Media and Power provides both a clear introduction to media research and an innovative analysis of media power. |
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... perspective provides a critical distance which can make apparent and clarify things that seem blurred when only viewed in a contemporary context.2 This chapter will present media history as a series of competing narratives. Its writing ...
... perspective provides a critical distance which can make apparent and clarify things that seem blurred when only viewed in a contemporary context.2 This chapter will present media history as a series of competing narratives. Its writing ...
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... perspective produces a remarkably different account. ADVANCE OF WOMEN: THE FEMINIST NARRATIVE It was a truth universally acknowledged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that women were inferior to men. Women were thought to be ...
... perspective produces a remarkably different account. ADVANCE OF WOMEN: THE FEMINIST NARRATIVE It was a truth universally acknowledged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that women were inferior to men. Women were thought to be ...
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