Sadržaj:
  • Section 1: The media and modern life
  • 1. The invasion from Mars / Hadley Cantril
  • 2. Mass and masses / Raymond Williams
  • 3. Mass communication and modern culture / John B. Thompson
  • 4. The separation of social space from physical place / Joshua Meyrowitz
  • 5. Communications and the constitution of modernity / Graham Murdock
  • 6. Public service broadcasting and modern public life / Paddy Scannell
  • Section 2: Stereotypes and representations
  • 7. Rethinking stereotypes / Tessa Perkins
  • 8. The lost world of stereotypes / Martin Barker
  • 9. The power of popular television: the case of 'Crosby' / Justin Lewis
  • 10. Mapping the mythical: a geopolitics of national sporting stereotypes / Hugh O'Donnell
  • 11. Approaches to 'the North': common myths and assumptions / Esther Adams
  • 12. Crippling images / Anne Karpf
  • 13. Moral panics / Simon Watney
  • 14. The most repeated, most read messages of the Cult: 1949-74 / Marjorie Ferguson
  • 15. The social role of advertising / T. H. Qualter
  • 16. Television's 'Personality system' / John Langer
  • Section 3: Audiences and reception
  • 17. On alcohol and the mystique of media effects / Andrew Tudor
  • 18. The television and delinquency debate / Graham Murdock and Robin McCron
  • 19. In defense of 'Video nasties' / Julian Petley
  • 20. Looking at 'The Sun': into the nineteies with a tabloid and its readers / Mark Pursehouse
  • 21. Technology in the domestic environment / Ann Gray
  • 22. Satellite TV as cultural sign / Shaun Moores
  • 23. Critical perspectives within audience research / Nick Stevenson
  • Section 4: Producers and production
  • 24. The missing dimensions - news media and the management of social change / Peter Golding
  • 25. The problems of making political television: a practitioner's perspective / Roger Bolton
  • 26. Keepers of the castle: producers, programmers and music selection / Stephen Barnard
  • 27. Priorities and prejudice: 'Artist and repertoire' and the acquisition of artists / Keith Negus
  • 28. How are television soaps produced? / Richard Kilborn
  • 29. Film production in the information age / Janet Wasko
  • 30. Video diaries: what's up doc? / Peter Keighron
  • 31. Riding with ambulances: television and its uses / Andrew Goodwin
  • Section 5: Gobal media and new media
  • 32. The poisoned chalice? International television and the idea of dominance / Michael Tracey
  • 33. Not yet the post-imperialist era / Herbert Schiller
  • 34. Where the global meets the local: notes from the sitting room / David Morley
  • 35. The roots of the information society idea / David Lyon
  • 36. Disinformocracy / Howard Rheingold
  • 37. Postmodernism and popular culture / Dominic Strinati
  • 38. Higher education, training and cultural industries: a working partnership / Ian Connell and Geoff Hurd
  • 39. Media studies and the 'knowledge problem ' / John Corner