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21. Televised Presidential Debates and Public Policy

    2nd Edition

    By Sidney Kraus

    Series: Communication and Society

    With this second edition, Kraus continues his examination of formal presidential debates, considering the experience of television in presidential elections, reviewing what has been learned about televised debates, and evaluating that knowledge in the context of the election process, specifically,...

    Published September 30th 1999 by Routledge
22. Media, Ritual and Identity

    Edited by James Curran, Tamar Liebes

    Series: Communication and Society

    Media, Ritual and Identity examines the role of the media in society; its complex influence on democratic processes and its participation in the construction and affirmation of different social identities. It draws extensively upon cultural anthropology and combines a commanding overview of...

    Published April 15th 1998 by Routledge
23. International Radio Journalism

    By Tim Crook

    Series: Communication and Society

    Radio journalists have witnessed much of the history of the twentieth century. From early documentary recordings , to the ground-breaking war reporting of Ed Murrow and Richard Dimbleby, to the sophisticated commentaries of Alistair Cooke and reporters such as Fergal Keane, International Radio...

    Published December 24th 1997 by Routledge
24. Tabloid Television

    Popular Journalism and the 'Other News'

    By John Langer

    Series: Communication and Society

    Fires, floods, accidents, celebrity lifestyles, heroic acts of humble people, cute acts by family pets and the weather. Television's non-news about non-events takes up an increasingly large part of contemporary broadcast journalism, but is regularly dismissed by television pundits as having no...

    Published November 19th 1997 by Routledge
25. A Journalism Reader

    Edited by Michael Bromley, Tom O'Malley

    Series: Communication and Society

    A Journalism Reader is a comprehensive collection of essential writings on journalism history and practice from the eighteenth century to the present day. It brings together the work of journalists, philosophers, historians, newspaper owners, cultural theorists and specialists in public policy and...

    Published September 10th 1997 by Routledge
26. Ill Effects

    The Media Violence Debate

    Edited by Martin Barker, Julian Petley

    Series: Communication and Society

    Ill Effects is a radical re-examination of the whole 'media effects' debate. It questions not only whether the media is capable of directly influencing people's views and actions, but also whether the idea of 'effects' is the most useful way of conceptualising the relationship between the media and...

    Published January 22nd 1997 by Routledge
27. The Global Jukebox

    The International Music Industry

    By Robert Burnett

    Series: Communication and Society

    Popular music is with us constantly. It is part of our everyday enviroment and in global terms it is now perhaps the most universal means of communication.The Global Jukebox is the first comprehensive study of the international music industry at a time of great change, as the entertainment industry...

    Published December 13th 1995 by Routledge
28. The Crisis of Public Communication

    By Jay Blumler, Michael Gurevitch

    Series: Communication and Society

    The role of the mass media in the world of politcs has become increasingly influential and controversial. This book traces the origins and development of this phenomena, basing discussion on critiques of BBC election coverage since 1966....

    Published November 29th 1995 by Routledge
29. In Garageland

    Rock, Youth and Modernity

    By Johan Fornäs, Ulf Lindberg, Ove Sernhede

    Series: Communication and Society

    Seeking to understand youth culture through its visual and musical expression, In Garageland presents a pioneering ethnographic study of rock bands and their fans. Topics include class as well as sexual conflicts; mainstream and deviant subcultures, and the complex social, psychological and ethical...

    Published April 19th 1995 by Routledge
30. Media Effects and Beyond

    Culture, Socialization and Lifestyles

    By Karl Erik Rosengren

    Series: Communication and Society

    Addressing a multitude of questions and issues surrounding how we use the media, Media Effects and Beyond represents the results of an international research programme into the use and effects of television, video and music. Seeing the viewer not simply as passive object but as a very active...

    Published October 26th 1994 by Routledge