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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... politics Edited by Greg Philo The Global Jukebox The international music industry Robert Burnett Inside Prime Time ... Political Communication Second edition Brian McNair Media Effects and Beyond Culture, socialization and lifestyles ...
... politics Edited by Greg Philo The Global Jukebox The international music industry Robert Burnett Inside Prime Time ... Political Communication Second edition Brian McNair Media Effects and Beyond Culture, socialization and lifestyles ...
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... political parties and—in the final culmination of this teleological history—the introduction of mass democracy. The right to vote was cautiously extended through five enlargements of the franchise: in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1918 and 1928 ...
... political parties and—in the final culmination of this teleological history—the introduction of mass democracy. The right to vote was cautiously extended through five enlargements of the franchise: in 1832, 1867, 1884, 1918 and 1928 ...
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... political (as distinct from moral) censorship was effectively abandoned. Broadcasting, according to liberal historians,6 also escaped from the shadow of the state to become independent. The BBC's initial subordination was symbolized by ...
... political (as distinct from moral) censorship was effectively abandoned. Broadcasting, according to liberal historians,6 also escaped from the shadow of the state to become independent. The BBC's initial subordination was symbolized by ...
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James Curran. their circulation and political coverage, so they extended the boundaries of the political nation, both horizontally to include peripheral areas distant from London and vertically to include people lower down the social ...
James Curran. their circulation and political coverage, so they extended the boundaries of the political nation, both horizontally to include peripheral areas distant from London and vertically to include people lower down the social ...
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... politicians' accountability to the public (Cockerell 1984). The launch of television political satire in the 1960s, and its subsequent development in a more irreverent (though not neccessarily more radical) form, also promoted a more ...
... politicians' accountability to the public (Cockerell 1984). The launch of television political satire in the 1960s, and its subsequent development in a more irreverent (though not neccessarily more radical) form, also promoted a more ...
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