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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... structure of the press transformed its place in society. All three chapters attempt in different ways to understand the part played by the media in the making of modern society. Part II focuses on media sociology, and related areas of ...
... structure of the press transformed its place in society. All three chapters attempt in different ways to understand the part played by the media in the making of modern society. Part II focuses on media sociology, and related areas of ...
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... structure of power in nineteenth-century Britain was only slowly modified by the extension of the franchise and economic change.10 In this stable context, the press contributed to the judicious maturing of the democratic system by ...
... structure of power in nineteenth-century Britain was only slowly modified by the extension of the franchise and economic change.10 In this stable context, the press contributed to the judicious maturing of the democratic system by ...
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... structure of the family, who survive unscathed at the narrative's close' (Thumim 1992:210; cf. Harper 1996). Yet this seeming continuity concealed subtle shifts, one of which was in understandings of masculinity. In the popular, middle ...
... structure of the family, who survive unscathed at the narrative's close' (Thumim 1992:210; cf. Harper 1996). Yet this seeming continuity concealed subtle shifts, one of which was in understandings of masculinity. In the popular, middle ...
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