Media Studies: Media history, media and society

Media Studies: Media history, media and society
Author: Pieter Jacobus Fourie
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2007
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780702176920

While examining exactly who owns the media and who produces the media, this text manages to encompass the systematic, critical, and analytical media in all its forms and concludes that the media is one of the most important generators and disseminators of meaning in contemporary society. Investigating the power relationships between the media and politics, culture, economy, society, and above all, democracy, this resource is well-suited for anyone with an interest in the modern role of media in society.

Media Studies

Media Studies
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2012
Genre: Mass media
ISBN: 9780702189470

Media Studies

Media Studies
Author: Pieter Jacobus Fourie
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780702177668

Addressing both theory and method, this reference teaches the two interconnected areas of media content and audience response. Introducing the main paradigms and research techniques in these fields, the discussion deals with wide range of topics. In regards to content studies, students are introduced to semiotics, textual analysis, narrative, argument, and film theory; for audience studies, they are introduced to questionaires, field research, quanitative analysis, and psychological studies.

Media and Society in the Twentieth Century

Media and Society in the Twentieth Century
Author: Lyn Gorman
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2002-12-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780631222347

Focusing mainly on the development of newspapers, film, radio, television, and the Internet in the United States and Western Europe, Media and Society in the Twentieth Century fills a critical need for students and scholars by offering a historical introduction to the mass media in our time. Provides an up-to-date, readable, and informative survey of the history of mass media in the twentieth century. Offers a historical and comparative perspective to emphasize the importance of contemporary media and to explain why particular media systems exist. Focuses on the development of newspapers, film, radio, and television for purposes of entertainment, information, and persuasion. Explores recent media developments, including the Internet and globalization, from a historical perspective.

Media, History, Society

Media, History, Society
Author: Janet M. Cramer
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-02-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781405161190

Media/History/Society offers a cultural history of media in the United States, shifting the lens of media history from media developments and evolution to a focus on changes in culture and society, emphasizing how media shaped and were shaped by these trends, policies, and cultural shifts. Covers the topics that instructors want to teach Provides a timely and relevant culturally determined perspective on media history in American society Organized thematically rather than chronologically Links history to contemporary issues, setting journalism into a broader historical context Includes alternate table of contents, discussion questions, an instructor’s manual, and sample exams

Media and Society

Media and Society
Author: James Curran
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2019-05-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501340743

Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. With this updated edition, David Hesmondhalgh joins James Curran and a team of leading international scholars to speak to current issues relating to media and gender, media and democracy, sociology of news, the global internet, the political impact of the media, popular culture, the effects of digitisation on media industries, media and emotion, and other vital topics. The media are in a state of ferment, and are undergoing far-reaching change. The sixth edition tries to make sense of the media's transformation, and its wider implications. Purely descriptive accounts date fast, so the emphasis has been on identifying the central issues and problems arising from media change, and on evaluating its wider consequences. What is judged to be the staple elements of the field has evolved over time, as well as becoming more international in orientation. Yet the overriding aim of the book - to be useful to students - has remained constant. This text is an essential resource for all media, communication and film studies students who want to broaden their knowledge and understanding of how the media operates and affects society across the globe.

A History of Communications

A History of Communications
Author: Marshall T. Poe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2010-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1139495577

A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into widespread use by broad historical trends and these media, once in widespread use, 'push' social institutions and beliefs in predictable directions. This view allows us to see for the first time what is truly new about the Internet, what is not, and where it is taking us.

Media & Society

Media & Society
Author: Michael O'Shaughnessy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2008
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Explores the media's influence in our world, providing a comprehensive introduction to the main concepts and theories used in media studies. Includes examples and case studies from TV, film, advertisements, photographs, the internet and print publications, from Australia and elsewhere. J. Stadler University of Queensland.

Media,Technology and Society

Media,Technology and Society
Author: Brian Winston
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134766335

Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited.