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Media and power

General Introduction: Section One: MEDIA HISTORY: 1. Rival Narratives of Media History. 2. New Media and Power. 3. Capitalism and Control of the Press. Section Two: MEDIA SOCIOLOGY: 4. New…
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Media System, Public Knowledge and Democracy

■ This article addresses the implications of the movement towards entertainment-centred, market-driven media by comparing what is reported and what the public knows in four countries with different…
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Media and Democracy

Media and Democracy addresses key topics and themes in relation to democratic theory, media and technology, comparative media studies, media and history, and the evolution of media research. For…
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Rethinking Media and Democracy

Contesting media power: alternative media in a networked world

Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations.…

The New Revisionism in Mass Communication Research: A Reappraisal

The major developments of mass communication research, particularly in Britain, during the last fifteen years are reviewed critically. A new revisionist movement has emerged that challenges the…
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De-Westernizing Media Studies

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Mass Media and Society

Part 1 Mass media and society - general perspectives: culture, communications, and political economy feminist perspectives on the media postmodernism and television mass media and the public interest…

Mediations of democracy

Over the past 15 years, Mass Media and Society has established itself as a leading international textbook on the media. Written by distinguished academics from around the world, the book provides an…

Beyond the hall of mirrors? Some theoretical reflections on the global contestation of media power

This chapter asks: can we model theoretically the possibilities for contesting media power around the world? This is, already, a controversial starting-point because it isolates ‘media power’ as a…
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