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News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment

By Daya Kishan Thussu

Book information

Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Year
2007
ISBN
0761968784, 9780761968788, 9780761968795
LCC
PN4784.T4 T485 2007
Open Library ID
OL10907853M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1786785 bytes)
Pages
213\225
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Richly detailed and empirically grounded, this first book-length study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon. Going beyond - both geographically and theoretically - the ‘dumbing down’ discourse, largely confined to the Anglo-American media, the book argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which ‘soft news’ masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.

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