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Informationen zum Autor Natalie Fenton is a Professor of Media and Communications and Co-Head of the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is also Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy. She has published widely on issues relating to civil society, radical politics, digital media, news and journalism and is particularly interested in issues of political transformation, radical media reform and re-imagining democracy. She was Vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the campaign group Hacked Off for 7 years and is currently Chair of the UK Media Reform Coalition. Her books include New Media: Old News: Journalism and Democracy in the Digital Age (Sage, 2010); Misunderstanding the Internet co-authored with James Curran and Des Freedman (Routledge, 2016); Digital, Political, Radical (2016, Polity); Media, Democracy and Social Change: Re-imagining Political Communications co-authored with Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany and Aeron Davis (Sage, 2020) and The Media Manifesto co-authored with Lina Des Freedman and Justin Schlosberg and Lina Dencik (Polity, 2020). Alan Bryman is Professor of Organizationaland Social Research, School of Management, University of Leicester, UK. Klappentext This book offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the mass communication process. The authors examine media production, the nature of media texts, the role of news sources, the general social and political context of mass communication and the ways in which media outputs are assimilated by audiences. Zusammenfassung This book offers an accessible and authoritative guide to the mass communication process. The authors examine media production! the nature of media texts! the role of news sources! the general social and political context of mass communication and the ways in which media outputs are assimilated by audiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Media Sociology and the Sociology of Mediated Studies Images of Social Science The Communication Environment of the Social Sciences Social Scientist as Source Constructing Social Science in the Newsroom Understanding Social Science News Bringing it all Together The Natural History of a News Item Conclusion ...
