Media and Society

6th Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-19-559724-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 203 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1157 g

Media and Society explores the relationship between the media, their institutions and the world we live in, examining how they are connected and how society and the media affect each other. The book analyses representations of the world found in films, television, advertisements, news and online to understand the impact of the media in the contemporary world. The sixth edition explores several themes throughout the text, including the contradictory nature of the media and the psychological concerns of the media, to provide clear explanations of complex theories and ideas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Shaughnessy, Michael

Stadler, Jane

Casey, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part 1 Getting Ready: The Media

- 1: Defining the Media

- 2: Media Studies

- 3: What Do the Media Do to Us? Media and Society

- 4: What's in a Name? Language and the Social Construction of Reality

- 5: Mediation and Representation

- 6: Texts, Meanings and Audiences

- 7: New Media and Technological Development

- Part 2 Pictures: Semiotic Analysis

- 8: Semiology

- 9: Reading Images and Advertisements

- 10: Model Essay: Semiotic Analysis of an Advertisement

- Part 3 Making Sense: Discourse, Ideology and Hegemony

- 11: Discourse and Ideology

- 12: Dominant Ideology and Hegemony

- 13: Culture Jamming and Counter-hegemony

- Part 4 Stories: Approaches for Narrative Analysis

- 14: Genres, Codes and Conventions

- 15: The Language of Film: American Beauty

- 16: Narrative Structure and Binary Oppositions

- 17: Digital Television and Interactive Narratives

- 18: Documentary and Reality TV

- 19: Why Stories?

- Part 5 Media and Identity: Representation, Impact and Influence

- 20: Feminism, Post-feminism and Ideology of Femininity

- 21: Ideologies and Discourses of Masculinity

- 22: Ethnicity, Ideology and the Media

- 23: Stars and Celebrities

- Part 6: But They Keep Moving the Posts: Postmodern and Global Perspectives

- 24: Postmodernism

- 25: Globalisation

Über Autor(innen)

Michael O'Shaughnessy, formerly School of Media and Communications, Edith Cowan University

Jane Stadler, Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies, University of Queensland

Sarah Casey, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University