Media Organisations in Society

Here is a widescreen approach to the study of media organisations in society. It combines a survey of current research with original case studies, providing an in-depth understanding of media industries and the processes of cultural production. It studies the media as an industry, through critical studies of the Internet, the global standardisation of the mega musical, the deregulation of television, and alternative media. It views the media as battlefield, by looking at Amnesty''s inspired international campaign against the killing of street children in Brazil, a successful opposition to privatisation, and the rise of Marxism Today. It investigates the media as a cultural product by assessing the processes which determine which books are reviewed and by whom, the elite male tastes which privilege the development of certain forms of popular music, and the way in which public responses to the media are affected by a ''culture of belief''.>

About the author

James Curran is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. He is the author or editor of 21 books about the media. These include Media and Power (2002), Media and Democracy (2011) and Misunderstanding the Internet (with Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman) (2016, 2nd ed.), all translated into multiple foreign languages, and Power Without Responsibility (with Jean Seaton), 8th edition due out in 2017. Also widely translated, this book was described by the Times Higher as having ‘cracked the canon’, and by the Irish Times as a ‘classic of media history and analysis.’

Product details

• Authors: James Curran, Curran James
• Assisted by: James Curran (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.1999
• EAN: 9780340720158
• ISBN: 978-0-340-72015-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Hodder Arnold Publication
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Media, Information & Communication Industries