The SAGE handbook of media studies
By: editor-in-chief John D.H. Downing ; associate editors, Denis McQuail, Philip Schlesinger, Ellen Wartella.
Contributors: Downing, John.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 629
Subjects: Mass media -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: "The Handbook is an ideal resource for university media researchers, for faculty developing new courses and revising curricula, and for graduate courses in media studies. It is also a necessary addition to any academic library."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I:; title: Prolegomena. --; title: Ethical and normative perspectives -- Clifford Christians -- The; title: Long and winding road of alternative media -- Alfonso Gumucio Dagron; title: Globalization, supranational institutions, and media -- John Sinclair; title: Society, culture, and media: thinking comparatively -- Annabelle Sreberny; title: Approaches to media texts -- Ruth Wodak and Brigitta Busch; title: Technology -- Sandra Braman; title: Digital media -- Jan van Dijk. -- Part II:; title: Audiences, users and effects. --; title: Audience and readership research -- Jenny Kitzinger; title: Twentieth-century media effects research -- Daniel G. McDonald; title: Psychology of media use -- Tannis M. MacBeth; title: Contemporary television audiences: publics, markets, communities, and fans -- Virginia Nightingale -- A; title: Concise history of media and cultural studies in three scripts: advocacy, autobiography, and the chronicle -- Joke Hermes; title: East Asia modernities and the formation of media and cultural studies -- Myungkoo Kang. -- Part III:; title: Economy and power. --; title: Media economics -- Alan B. Albarran -- The; title: Political economy of communications -- Janet Wasko; title: Government, the state, and media -- Erik Neveu; title: Media, public opinion, and political action -- Holli A. Semetko; title: Media and the reinvention of the nation -- Silvio Waisbord; title: News media production: individuals, organizations, and institutions -- D. Charles Whitney, Randall S. Sumpter, and Denis McQuail. -- Part IV:; title: Specific areas of media research. --; title: Narrative and genre -- Horace Newcomb; title: Sound exchange: media and music cultures -- Nabeel Zuberi; title: Advertising: a synthetic approach -- Todd Joseph Miles Holden; title: Broadcasting, cable, and satellites -- Michele Hilmes; title: Hollywood -- Thomas Schatz and Alisa Perren; title: Bollywood and Indian cinema: changing contexts and articulations of national cultural desire -- Veena Naregal; title: Media violence and sex: what are the concerns, issues, and effects?-- Stacy L. Smith, Emily Moyer-Gusé, and Edward Donnerstein.