In this comprehensive guide to important new developments in the study of media reception, Shaun Moores reviews a wide range of qualitative audience research and charts the emergence of a critical ethnographic perspective on everyday consumer practices.
The author considers the distinctive features of audience ethnography and outlines its applications in communication and cultural analysis. Four main areas of inquiry are discussed: the power of media texts to determine the meanings made by their readers; the relationship between media genres and the social patterns of taste; the day-to-day...
In this comprehensive guide to important new developments in the study of media reception, Shaun Moores reviews a wide range of qualitative audience r...
Feminists have long recognized the significance of the media as a site for the expression of - or challenges to - existing constructions of gender. In this broad-ranging analysis, Liesbet van Zoonen explores the ways in which feminist theory and research contribute to the fuller understanding of the multiple roles of the media in the construction of gender in contemporary societies.
The text initially outlines some major themes in feminist media studies and the ways in which they offer specific models for understanding the media. The author goes on to examine the key questions posed by a...
Feminists have long recognized the significance of the media as a site for the expression of - or challenges to - existing constructions of gender. In...
Explores ways in which crises highlight the problematic issues of media performance in democratic states. The book examines the relationship between communication and civil society through cases of media responses to crises, ranging from the Gulf War of 1991 to recent events in Eastern Europe.
Explores ways in which crises highlight the problematic issues of media performance in democratic states. The book examines the relationship between c...
Patrice Flichy offers a profound analysis of the social shaping and impact of the major communication technologies of the last 200 years.
From the semaphore and telegraph to contemporary information technologies, Dynamics of Modern Communication focuses on the relationship between technological and social change. Particular emphasis is put on four processes: the birth of the modern state at the end of the eighteenth century; the development of stock markets; the transformation of private life in the modern nuclear family; and the individualism of the late twentieth century.
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Patrice Flichy offers a profound analysis of the social shaping and impact of the major communication technologies of the last 200 years.
