Media Knowledge - Readings in Popular Culture, Pedagogy, and Critical Citizenship

This book calls for a way of reading and responding to the media culture that is more than passive reception. It argues for the fostering of critical citizenship as the key to engaging, debating, and ultimately reconstructing the concepts and beliefs society brings to bear upon popular culture. The authors analyze contemporary media culture, including television news and dramatic programming, advertising, Hollywood film, and discuss the relationships between technology, culture, and society.

About the author

James Schwoch is Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University, and author of The American Radio Industry and its Latin American Activities. Mimi White is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Radio/TV/Film at Northwestern University and the author of Tele-Advising: Therapeutic Discourse in American Television. Susan Reilly is Associate Professor of Mass Communication at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and co-author of Writing for the Computer Screen.

Product details

• Authors: Susan Reilly, James Schwoch, Miriam White
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.03.1992
• EAN: 9780791408261
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0826-1
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 281 g
• Series: Suny Series, the Psychology of; Suny Series, Teacher Empowerme; Suny Series, the Psychology of
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries