Media Matters is an entirely new text in the magazine-style format Citizenship in Focus series. It is designed to help students analyse the media’s influence and power in society, and the role it plays in a democracy.
The topics covered in Media Matters include:
• The power of the media
• Broadcast media in the UK
• Print media in the UK
• Who owns the media?
• Who decides the news agenda?
• Politicians, public relations and the media
• What makes a story newsworthy?
• News reports: true, fair and accurate?
• Freedom and censorship
• A responsible press?
• TV, films and videos – a good or bad influence?
• The power of advertising
• The growth of the internet
• Problems with the internet
• The digital revolution
• Informing the world – who sets the global agenda?
• Index and Glossary
- ISBN10 0007149808
- ISBN13 9780007149803
- Publish Date 20 January 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 May 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint Collins Educational
- Format Paperback
- Pages 32
- Language English
- URL http://collins.co.uk