Understanding Media - Communication, Power and Social Change

Drawing on decades of research to examine these and other questions, Understanding Media interrogates claims about the Internet, explores how representations in TV and film may influence perceptions of self, and traces overarching trends while attending to crucial local context, from the United States to China, Norway to Malaysia, and Brazil to Britain. Understanding Media is an accessible and essential guide to the world''s most influential force - the contemporary media.<>

About the author

James Curran is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the co-author of award-winning Power Without Responsibility, now going into its ninth edition. His other books include Media and Democracy (translated into Arabic, Hungarian and Korean) and Media and Power (translated into Spanish, Greek, Korean, Japanese and Chinese). He gained the C. Edwin Baker Award for his work on media, markets and democracy from the International Communication Association. He secured a £1.25 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust to research the internet. He has been a Visiting Professor at California, Pennsylvania, Stanford, Oslo and Stockholm Universities.
Joanna Redden is an Associate Professor at Western University. She is author of The Mediation of Poverty, co-author of Data Justice and co-editor of Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data.

Product details

• Authors: James Curran, Joanna Redden
• Publisher: PELICAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.04.2024
• EAN: 9780241685402
• ISBN: 978-0-241-68540-2
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 222 mm x 41 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Communication Studies, Social and cultural history, Media, Information & Communication Industries