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Communication and Society

This series encompasses the broad field of media and cultural studies. Its main concerns are the media and the public sphere: on whether the media empower or fail to empower popular forces in society; media organizations and public policy; political communication; and the role of media entertainment, ranging from potboilers and the human interest story to rock music and TV sport.

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  1. Media Moguls

    By Michael Palmer, Jeremy Tunstall

    Series: Communication and Society

    The emergence of a few powerful individuals in control of large sections of mass communication industries has coincided with world-wide media de-regulation. In the first book to take a close look at media moguls as a species, Jeremy Tunstall and Michael Palmer show how a handful of own-and-operate...

    Published December 11th 1991 by Routledge

  2. Potboilers

    Methods, Concepts and Case Studies in Popular Fiction

    By Mr Jerry Palmer, Jerry Palmer

    Series: Communication and Society

    Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative - in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, media and cultural studies. The book introduces and summarizes two decades of debate about mass-produced fictions and...

    Published December 4th 1991 by Routledge

  3. What News?

    The Market, Politics and the Local Press

    By Bob Franklin, David Murphy

    Series: Communication and Society

    A survey of the role and the future prospects of the local press in the 1990s. The authors also take into account the radical changes the local press have been through with new technology and the proliferation of free newspapers....

    Published September 25th 1991 by Routledge

  4. Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media

    By Brian McNair

    Series: Communication and Society

    The reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have brought tumultuous change to political, social and economic life in the Soviet Union. But how have these changes affected Soviet press and television reporting? Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media examines the changing role of Soviet journalism from its...

    Published July 24th 1991 by Routledge

  5. Seeing and Believing

    The Influence of Television

    By Greg Philo

    Series: Communication and Society

    Television has a powerful impact on our beliefs and is open to use as a political and propaganda tool. Greg Philo has taken a new approach to examining these issues by inviting groups of television viewers to write their own news programmes, based on news pictures from the 1984-5 British miners'...

    Published June 27th 1990 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Critical Political Economy of the Media: An Introduction
    By Jonathan Hardy
    To Be Published November 30th 2013
  2. Journalism in Context
    By Angela Phillips
    To Be Published December 31st 2013

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