Media Studies - Texts, Production, Context

Informationen zum Autor Paul Long is Reader in Media Theory in the Birmingham School of Media! Birmingham City University.Tim Wall is Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies in the Birmingham School of Media! Birmingham City University. Klappentext This volume covers a range of topics! from the history of media! right through to coverage of new media. It looks in detail at similarities and differences between media texts! industries and cultural context and examines media audiences as cosumers! listeners! readerships and members of communities. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors Guided tour Acknowledgements Introduction: Getting started: 'doing' media studies Part One: Media texts and meanings Chapter 1: How do media make meaning? Chapter 2: Organising meaning in media texts: genre and narrative Chapter 3: Media representations Chapter 4: Reality media Part Two : Producing media Chapter 5: The business of media Chapter 6: Media regulation and policy Chapter 7: Media production in a global age Part Three: Media audiences Chapter 8: Producing audiences: what do media do to people? Chapter 9: Investigating audiences: what do people do with media? Part Four: Media and social contexts Chapter 10: Media power Chapter 11: Conceptualising mass society Chapter 12: Modernism! postmodernism and after Chapter 13: The consumer society and advertising Part Five: Historiography Chapter 14: Media histories Conclusion: Doing your media studies Glossary References Index

Product details

• Authors: Paul Long, Paul (Birmingham City University Long, Paul (Monash University Long, Paul Wall Long, Tim Wall
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.07.2012
• EAN: 9781408269510
• ISBN: 978-1-4082-6951-0
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: Longman
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science