′In his beautifully balanced, clear and broad-ranging account of a fast-changing field, Paul Hodkinson has successfully brought together myriad perspectives with which to critically analyse today′s media culture and media society′ - Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Media & communication, LSEClearly organized, systematic and combining a critical survey of the field with a finely judged assessment of cutting edge developments, this book provides a ′must have′ contribution to media and communication studies.
The text is organized into three distinctive parts, which fall neatly into research and teaching requirements: Elements of the Media (which covers media technologies, the organization of the media industry, media content and media users); Media, Power and Control (which addresses questions of the media and manipulation, the construction of news, public service broadcasting, censorship, commercialization); and Media, Identity and Culture (which covers issues of the media and ethnicity, gender, subcultures, audiences and fans).
The book is notable for:
• Logical and coherent organization
• Clarity of expression
• Use of relevant examples
• Fair minded criticism
• Zestful powers of analysis
It has all of the qualities to be adopted as core introductory text in the large and buoyant field of media and communication studies.
- ISBN10 1412920531
- ISBN13 9781412920537
- Publish Date 15 October 2010
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 November 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English