Mass Media and Society.

Chapters:
PART I. MASS MEDIA AND SOCIETY: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES :
1. Golding / Murdock: Culture, communication and political
economy ;
2. Zoonen: Feminst perspectives on the media ;
3. Fiske: Postmodernism and Television ;
4. McQuail: Mass media in the public interest: Towards a
framework of norms for media performance ;
5. Curran: Mass Media and democracy Revisited ;
6. Blumler / Gurevitch: Media Change and Social Change:
Linkages and Junctures ;
PART II. MEDIA PRODUCTION :
7. Schudson: The Sociology of News Production Revisited ;
8. Frith: Entertainment ;
9. Sreberny: The Global and the Local in International
Communications ;
10. Gurevitch: The Globalization of Electronic Journalism ;
11. Lichtenberg: In Defence of Objectivity Revisited ;
12. Hallin: Commercialism and Professionalism in the American
News Media ;
PART III. MEDIATION OF MEANING :
13. Geraghty: Representation and Popular Culture ;
14. Corner: Reappraising Reception: Aims, Concepts and Methods ;
15. Livingstone: On the continuing Problem of Media Effects ;
16. Ang / Hermes: Gender and/in Media Consumption ;
17. Wasko: Understanding the Disney Universe ;
Index.