The new media environment : an introduction /
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| Author / Creator: | Press, Andrea Lee. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. |
| Description: | ix, 225 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8139624 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: Modem Life Is a Media Experience
- A Tale of Two Hurricanes
- What Is a Media Environment?
- The Importance of Changing Media Environments
- The electronic media
- Media in the Twenty-First Century: What Has Changed?
- The age of the internet
- Conclusion
- 2. Ownership and Control in the New Media Environment
- Patterns of Media Ownership and Control
- Ownership and Control of the Media: Assumptions and Realities
- Alternative models of media ownership
- Who owns the media?
- Ownership and control in a global context
- Does It Matter? The Consequences of Concentration and Conglomeration
- The argument for market-driven media
- The argument against market-driven media
- What this means today
- Conclusion
- 3. Media and Democracy
- Introduction
- Changing Media Environments and Changing Democratic Politics
- Why nervous liberals are still with us: The enduring problem of propaganda
- John Dewey and the reconstruction of media and democratic politics
- Empirical research: How do media actually affect citizens?
- Television and the "Age of Broadcast News"
- Politics in the New Media Environment
- Conclusion
- 4. Studying Popular Culture: Texts, Reception, and Cultural Studies
- Introduction: Hollywood and Representations of Reality
- Media Studies and the Study of Reception: A Brief History of Its Methods and Findings
- Conclusion
- 5. Studying Inequalities: Class, Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Media Studies
- A Critical Perspective on Inequality in Media Studies
- The Frankfurt School
- Cultural studies
- Media studies research findings on class, gender, race, and sexuality
- Gender in Media Studies Research: Are Gender Roles Culturally Reproduced?
- Film and gender: Issues of reception and representation
- Television and gender: Issues of reception and representation
- Media and Race
- Sexuality
- Conclusion
- 6. Studying Media Texts and Their Reception in the New Media Environment
- Transformative Images in the New Media Environment
- Globalization and the new shape of media identities
- Media Reception Research in the New Media Environment
- Global reception in the new media environment
- Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Class Inequality in New Media Reception: A New Study
- New Studies: Gender and Social Class Identities in the New Media Environment
- Politics, Media Impact and Use, and the New Media Environment
- Old and New Media in the Individualized Media Environment: The New Media Environment Is Never Just New Media
- Bias in old media and new
- Civic engagement in the new media environment
- Americans and Political Discussion: How the New Media Environment Is Changing the Civic Landscape
- Conclusion
- 7. Conclusion
- We Are Living in a Mediated Age
- The Complexity of Our Relationship With the Media
- Human Agency in Media Decisions and Directions
- In Closing: The Case of the RFID
- Index
