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Framing Public Life: Perspectives on Media and Our Understanding of the Social World

By Stephen D. Reese , Oscar H. Gandy Jr. , August E. Grant

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2001
ISBN
0805836535, 9780805836530
LCC
PN4784.O24 F69 2001
Open Library ID
OL3943106M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2694359 bytes)
Series
Routledge Communication Series
Pages
413\413
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

This distinctive volume offers a thorough examination of the ways in which meaning comes to be shaped. Editors Stephen Reese, Oscar Gandy, and August Grant employ an interdisciplinary approach to the study of conceptualizing and examining media. They illustrate how texts and those who provide them powerfully shape, or ''frame,'' our social worlds and thus affect our public life. Embracing qualitative and quantitative, visual and verbal, and psychological and sociological perspectives, this book helps media consumers develop a multi-faceted understanding of media power, especially in the realm of news and public affairs.

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