This is Barthes' seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of 'Mythologies', a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and…
This is Barthes' seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and c…
New preface for this classic of media studies. One of the founders of SDS describes the response of the various news organizations and arrives at the way the New Left came to be characterized.
This study examines the way news organizations, as the category implies, 'organize' the news world, both for practitioners - reporters, editors and managers - and for the consumers - readers, viewers and perhaps even more important, decision-makers. (Source unknown as of Septemb…
"Goble's original readings reinterpret the aesthetics of modernism in the early twentieth century, when new modes of communication made the experience of technology an occasion for profound experimentation and reflection. - He follows the assimilation of such "old" media technol…
This book examines the increasingly topical subject of the political process and assesses: The nature of the relationship between mass media and the political process ; the impact of media-ization on existing political frameworks ; and the implications of media-ized politics.
In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies. Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannhe…
The author develops an account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern societies, arguing that social and political theorists have failed to deal adequately with the nature of mass communication and its role in the modern world.
