Understanding Media Cultures : Social Theory and Mass Communication

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ISBN: 9780761973621 | 0761973621
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Copyright: 4/2/2002

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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.

Introduction

(8)

Marxism and Mass Communication Research

(38)

Debates within Political Economy and Ideology: Raymond Williams, Glasgow University Media Group and Stuart Hall

Marxism, Political Economy and Ideology

(2)

Raymond Williams: Communications and the Long Revolution

(4)

Cultural Materialism and Hegemony

(3)

Raymond Williams and Material Culture: Television and the Press

(2)

Raymond Williams and Communication Theory

(6)

The Glasgow University Media Group and Television Bias

(1)

Two Case Studies: Bad News and Good News

(2)

The Eye of the Beholder and Objectivity in Media Studies

(4)

Ideology and the Glasgow University Media Group

(2)

Stuart Hall, Mass Communications and Hegemony

(1)

Policing the Crisis: the Press, Moral Panics and the Rise of the New Right

(1)

Ideology: the Return of the Repressed?

(5)

Encoding and Decoding Media Discourse

(1)

The Over-inflation of Discourse and Other Related Critiques

(4)

Summary

(1)

Habermas, Mass Culture and the Public Sphere

(28)

Public Cultures

(1)

The Bourgeois Public Sphere

(3)

Habermas, Mass Culture and the Early Frankfurt School

(5)

Problems with Mass Culture: Habermas and the Frankfurt School

(6)

The Public Sphere and Public Broadcasting

(6)

Habermas, the Public Sphere and Citizenship

(6)

Summary

(1)

Critical Perspectives within Audience Research

(43)

Problems in Interpretation, Agency, Structure and Ideology

The Emergence of Critical Audience Studies

(3)

David Morley and the Television Audience: Encoding/Decoding Revisited

(1)

Semiotics, Sociology and the Television Audience

(4)

Class, Power and Ideology in Domestic Leisure

(6)

John Fiske and the Pleasure of Popular Culture

(3)

Life's More Fun with the Popular Press

(2)

Pointless Populism or Resistant Pleasures?

(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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