Raymond Williams believed that making connections between politics, economics, education and culture was a continuing critical task. This is a critical exploration of every aspect Williams's work, which spans his fiction and non-fiction, and his contributions to drama, film, literary criticism, sociology, cultural studies, media studies and politics.
Raymond Williams believed that making connections between politics, economics, education and culture was a continuing critical task. This is a critica...
The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an introduction to recent work by the Group.
The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an introducti...
Glasgow University Media Group John Eldridge John Eldridge
The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an ideal introduction to recent work by the Group. Contributors discuss themes such as the relationship between the media and public opinion, the emergence of TV news formats and styles, and the relations between theory and method in media research. Recent work undertaken by the Group on the media's role in reporting on AIDS, Vietnam, Northern Ireland and the Gulf War is also represented. In its fresh approach to the relationship between...
The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an i...
In recent years, the Glasgow University Media Group's assertion of the role of the media plays in shaping the audience's understanding of current affairs has provided a crucial counter argument to theorists of postmodernity such as Jean Baudrillard. These two collections bring together key articles and writings by members of the Group from the early 1970s to the 1990s, making available for students material from the Group's books, Bad News, More Bad News, Really Bad News, and War and Peace News. This first volume focuses on issues of news content, language and the role of visual images in...
In recent years, the Glasgow University Media Group's assertion of the role of the media plays in shaping the audience's understanding of current affa...
The work and methodology of the Glasgow University Media Group has become a core part of many media and journalism studies courses, and their contribution to our understanding of the relationship between mass media and society is widely acknowledged. In recent years, their assertion of the role the media plays in shaping the audience's understanding of current affairs has provided a crucial counter argument to such theorists of postmodernity as Jean Baudrillard. "The Glasgow Media Reader: Volume 1" looks at key articles and writings by members of the Group from the early 1970s to the...
The work and methodology of the Glasgow University Media Group has become a core part of many media and journalism studies courses, and their contribu...
It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976.
The authors undertook an exhaustive monitoring of all television broadcasts over 6 months, from January to June 1975, with particular focus upon industrial news broadcasts, the TUC, strikes and industrial action, business and economic affairs.
Their analysis showed how television news favours certain...
It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press rep...
