Media society
Subtitle: industries, images, and audiences
By: David Croteau, William Hoynes.
Contributors: Hoynes, William.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9780761987734
Subjects: Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.; Mass media -- Political aspects -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-395) and index.
Table of contents: title: I: Media/society; title: 1. Media and the social world; title: II: Production: the media industry and the social world; title: 2. The economics of the media industry; title: 3. Political influence on media; title: 4. Media organizations and professionals; title: III: Content: media representations of the social world; title: 5. Media and ideology; title: 6. Social inequality and media representation; title: IV: Audiences: meaning and influence; title: 7. Media influence and the political world; title: 8. Active audiences and the construction of meaning; title: 9. Media technology and social change; title: V: Globalization and the future; title: 10. Media in a changing global culture.