Media And Society

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Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. With this updated edition, David Hesmondhalgh joins James Curran and a team of leading international scholars to speak to current issues relating to media and gender, media and democracy, sociology of news, the global internet, the political impact of the media, popular culture, the effects of digitisation on media industries, media and emotion, and other vital topics. The media are in a state of ferment, and are undergoing far-reaching change. The sixth edition tries to make sense of the media's transformation, and its wider implications. Purely descriptive accounts date fast, so the emphasis has been on identifying the central issues and problems arising from media change, and on evaluating its wider consequences. What is judged to be the staple elements of the field has evolved over time, as well as becoming more international in orientation. Yet the overriding aim of the book - to be useful to students - has remained constant. This text is an essential resource for all media, communication and film studies students who want to broaden their knowledge and understanding of how the media operates and affects society across the globe. Introduction James Curran and David Hesmondhalgh viii Part I MEDIA AND SOCIETY: GENErAl PErSPECTIvES Chapter 1 THE GlObAl INTErNET Jack linchuan Qiu 3 Chapter 2 POPulAr CulTurE Marwan M. Kraidy 21 Chapter 3 MEDIA, GENDEr AND FEMINISM Susan J. Douglas 37 Chapter 4 NEO lIbErAlISM AND THE MEDIA Mike berry 57 Chapter 5 COMMuNICATION POwEr: MASS COMMuNICATION, MASS SElF-COMMuNICATION AND POwEr rElATIONSHIPS IN THE NETwOrK SOCIETY Manuel Castells 83 Part II MEDIA SYSTEMS, PrODuCTION AND PlATFOrMS Chapter 6 HAvE DIGITAl COMMuNICATION TECHNOlOGIES DEMOCrATIzED THE MEDIA INDuSTrIES? David Hesmondhalgh 101 Chapter 7 THE MEDIATIONS OF DATA Alison Powell 121 Chapter 8 APPrOACHES TO THE SOCIOlOGY OF NEwS Michael Schudson 139 Chapter 9 wESTErN MEDIA SYSTEMS IN COMPArATIvE PErSPECTIvE Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini 167 Chapter 10 GlObAl SCrEEN INDuSTrIES Michael Curtin 187 Chapter 11 DIGITAl PlATFOrMS, GlObAlIzATION AND CulTurE Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan 207 Part III PrOblEMS AND CHAllENGES Chapter 12 JOurNAlISM, ONlINE AND OFFlINE C. w. Anderson 227 Chapter 13 MEDIA, rACE AND THE INFrASTruCTurES OF EMPIrE Paula Chakravartty 245 Chapter 14 THE POlITICS OF rEAlITY Tv Susan Murray 263 Chapter 15 DEMOCrATIC FuNCTIONS OF ENTErTAINMENT James Curran 281 Chapter 16 THE POlITICAl IMPACT OF MEDIA Stephen Cushion 303 Chapter 17 MEDIA, EMOTIONS AND AFFECT Kaarina Nikunen 323 list of Contributors 341 Index 343