The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age

ISBN-13: 9780415213141 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 250 str.

Nick Couldry

Opis

Focusing on the meetings between ordinary people and the media, this study explores what happens when people who normally consume the media witness media processes in action, or even become the object of media attention themselves. Such encounters, the author argues, tell us a great deal about our attitudes towards the media world. They also offer a way of thinking about the media's impact on contemporary social life, the basis of their social authority, and the possibility of challenging it. Couldry draws on perspectives from anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology and geography as well as media studies to develop a wide-ranging theory of how the media's special status - as storytellers and presenters of facts - is maintained. He goes on to explore the implications of this theory in two detailed case studies.

Spis treści

PART1 A new theory of media power 1 Locating media power 2 Charting media territory 3 Media power: some hidden dimensions PART 2 Media pilgrims: on the set of Coronation Street 4 On the actual Street 5 The reality of the fiction 6 Playing with boundaries PART 3 Media witnesses: two decades of protest 7 Brightlingsea: the de-naturalisation of the media frame 8 Acting within the media frame PART 4 The future of the media frame? 9 Conclusion and perspectives beyond

O autorze

Nick Couldry is a Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College, University of London