Western Media Systems offers a critical introduction to media systems in North America and Western Europe. The book offers a wide-ranging survey of comparative media analysis addressing the economic, social, political, regulatory and cultural aspects of Western media systems.
Jonathan Hardy takes a thematic approach, guiding the reader through critical issues and debates, introducing key concepts and specialist literature. Western Media Systems is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying comparative and global media.
Western Media Systems offers a critical introduction to media systems in North America and Western Europe. The book offers a wide-ranging survey of...
Media and Democracy addresses key topics and themes in relation to democratic theory, media and technology, comparative media studies, media and history, and the evolution of media research. For example:
How does TV entertainment contribute to the democratic life of society?
Why are Americans less informed about politics and international affairs than Europeans?
How should new communications technology and globalisation change our understanding of the democratic role of the media?
What does the rise...
Media and Democracy addresses key topics and themes in relation to democratic theory, media and technology, comparative media studies, med...
In this book, leading researchers consider how media informs democracy in six countries - the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Norway, Netherlands, and Sweden.
In this book, leading researchers consider how media informs democracy in six countries - the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Norway, Neth...
This text addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society: how much power do the media have? who really controls the media? and what is the relationship between media and power in society.
This text addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society: how much power do the media have? who really controls the me...
Containing new thinking and original surveys, Media & Cultural Theory brings together leading international scholars to address key issues and debates within media and cultural studies.
Through the use of contemporary media and film texts such as Bridget Jones Diary and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and using case studies of the USA and the UK after September 11th, James Curran and David Morley examine central topics including:
media representations of the new woman in contemporary society
the creation of self in lifestyle...
Containing new thinking and original surveys, Media & Cultural Theory brings together leading international scholars to address key issues...
Media and Democracy addresses key topics and themes in relation to democratic theory, media and technology, comparative media studies, media and history, and the evolution of media research. For example: How does TV entertainment contribute to the democratic life of society? Why are Americans less informed about politics and international affairs than Europeans? How should new communications technology and globalisation change our understanding of the democratic role of the media? What does the rise of international ezines reveal about the limits of the internet? What is the future of...
Media and Democracy addresses key topics and themes in relation to democratic theory, media and technology, comparative media studies, media and histo...
James Curran, Ivor Gaber, Julian Petley (Brunel University, UK)
Culture Wars investigates the relationship between the media and politics in Britain today. It focusses on how significant sections of the national press have represented and distorted the policies of the Labour Party, and particularly its left, from the Thatcher era up to and including Ed Miliband’s and Jeremy Corbyn’s leaderships. Revised and updated, including five brand new chapters, this second edition shows how press hostility to the left, particularly newspaper coverage of its policies on race, gender and sexuality, has morphed into a more generalised campaign against ‘political...
Culture Wars investigates the relationship between the media and politics in Britain today. It focusses on how significant sections of the national pr...
