Modern Mass Media

Modern Mass Media
Author: John Calhoun Merrill
Publisher: Pearson College Division
Total Pages: 445
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780673990259

This text offers an all-inclusive assessment of the rapidly changing world of mass communications. Including coverage of global communication and ethics; a meaningful study of evolving media economics in the individual media chapters; and a stronger focus on media history.

Who Deliberates?

Who Deliberates?
Author: Benjamin I. Page
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 182
Release: 1996-06-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780226644738

Public deliberation is essential to democracy, but the public can be fooled as well as enlightened. In three case studies of media coverage in the 1990s, Benjamin Page explores the role of the press in structuring political discussion. Page shows how the New York Times presented a restricted set of opinions on whether to go to war with Iraq, shutting out discussion of compromises favored by many Americans. He then examines the media's negative reaction to the Bush administration's claim that riots in Los Angeles were caused by welfare programs. Finally, he shows how talk shows overcame the elite media's indifference to widespread concern about Zoe Baird's hiring of illegal aliens. Page's provocative conclusion identifies the conditions under which media outlets become political actors and actively shape and limit the ideas and information available to the public. Arguing persuasively that a diversity of viewpoints is essential to true public deliberation, this book will interest students of American politics, communications, and media studies.

Privacy and Publicity

Privacy and Publicity
Author: Beatriz Colomina
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 1996-02-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0262531399

Through a series of close readings of two major figures of the modern movement, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, Beatriz Colomina argues that architecture only becomes modern in its engagement with the mass media, and that in so doing it radically displaces the traditional sense of space and subjectivity. Privacy and Publicity boldly questions certain ideological assumptions underlying the received view of modern architecture and reconsiders the methodology of architectural criticism itself. Where conventional criticism portrays modern architecture as a high artistic practice in opposition to mass culture, Colomina sees the emerging systems of communication that have come to define twentieth-century culture—the mass media—as the true site within which modern architecture was produced. She considers architectural discourse as the intersection of a number of systems of representation such as drawings, models, photographs, books, films, and advertisements. This does not mean abandoning the architectural object, the building, but rather looking at it in a different way. The building is understood here in the same way as all the media that frame it, as a mechanism of representation in its own right. With modernity, the site of architectural production literally moved from the street into photographs, films, publications, and exhibitions—a displacement that presupposes a new sense of space, one defined by images rather than walls. This age of publicity corresponds to a transformation in the status of the private, Colomina argues; modernity is actually the publicity of the private. Modern architecture renegotiates the traditional relationship between public and private in a way that profoundly alters the experience of space. In a fascinating intellectual journey, Colomina tracks this shift through the modern incarnations of the archive, the city, fashion, war, sexuality, advertising, the window, and the museum, finally concentrating on the domestic interior that constructs the modern subject it appears merely to house.

Mass Media in Modern Society

Mass Media in Modern Society
Author: Norman Jacobs
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000678024

In this lively and yet scholarly book, creative artists, people who direct channels of communications, and social scientists present their numerous positions and deeply felt disagreements.

American Folklore and the Mass Media

American Folklore and the Mass Media
Author: Linda Dégh
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1994-02-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780253116604

"This book shows how folklore -- magic, miracles, and tales of enchanted princesses and genial giants -- is still alive and well in the modern mass media.... contains a wealth of facts and observations with which to conjure." -- Journal of Communication "Dégh brings her decades of expertise in folk narrative to bear in this well-researched, provocative study of the interrelationship between traditional processes of folk narrative performances and modern mass media.... Highly recommended... " -- Choice "Spanning folk cultural developments as old as feudalism and as new as today's TV ad, American Folklore and the Mass Media demonstrates how vital folklore remains, how often it absorbs -- rather than being absorbed by -- the most dramatic technological innovations and social realignments." -- Carl Lindahl "... all six essays are meaty and informative contributions to vital folkloric issues..." -- Contemporary Legend

Media Nation

Media Nation
Author: Bruce J. Schulman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812248880

Media Nation brings together some of the most exciting voices in media and political history to present fresh perspectives on the role of mass media in the evolution of modern American politics. Together, these contributors offer a field-shaping work that aims to bring the media back to the center of scholarship modern American history.

Diversity in U.S. Mass Media

Diversity in U.S. Mass Media
Author: Catherine A. Luther
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2011-09-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1444344528

Diversity in U.S. Mass Media provides comprehensive coverage of the evolution and issues surrounding portrayals of social groups within the mass media of the United States. Focuses on past and current mass media representations of social groups Provides an overview of key theories that have guided research in mass media representations and stereotyping Discusses the impact new media has on representation and how technology is giving a new voice to various social groups Includes a chapter on how mass media industries are addressing diversity, complete with specially-commissioned interviews with media professionals Offers helpful supplementary features such as a glossary, questions for reflection, suggestions for projects related to diversity in mass media, and online resources for both instructors and students Accompanying website provides a glossary, links to related sites, recommendations of films to watch in the classroom, ideas for research projects, and an instructor's manual with sample syllabi

Refiguring Mass Communication

Refiguring Mass Communication
Author: Peter Simonson
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0252077059

This book is a unique inquiry into the history and the ongoing moral significance of mass communication as an idea and social form.