The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies
The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies
Editors: Downing, John D.H., McQuail, Denis and Schlesinger, Philip, et.al.
Publication Year: 2004
Publisher: SAGE Publications
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$231.00

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$346.50
ISBN: 978-0-7619-2169-1
Category: Social Sciences - Media & Communications
Image Count:
6
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
The Handbook offers a comprehensive review within five interconnected areas: humanistic and social scientific approaches; global and comparative perspectives; the relation of media to economy and power; media users; and elements in the media mosaic ranging from media ethics to advertising, from popular music to digital technologies, and from Hollywood and Bollywood to alternative media.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Overview of the Handbook - Denis McQuail
- PART I: PROLEGOMENA
- Ethical and Normative Perspectives - Clifford Christians
- The Long and Winding Road of Alternative Media - Alfonso Gumucio Dagron
- Globalization, Supranational Institutions, and Media - John Sinclair
- Society, Culture, and Media: Thinking Comparatively - Annabelle Sreberny
- Approaches to Media Texts - Ruth Wodak and Brigitta Busch
- Technology - Sandra Braman
- Digital Media - Jan van Dijk
- PART II: Audiences, Users, and Effects
- Audience and Readership Research - Jenny Kitzinger
- Twentieth-Century Media Effects Research - Daniel G. McDonald
- Psychology of Media Use - Tannis M. MacBeth
- Contemporary Television Audiences: Publics, Markets, Communities, and Fans - Virginia Nightingale
- A Concise History of Media and Cultural Studies in Three Scripts: Advocacy, Autobiography, and the Chronicle - Joke Hermes
- East Asian Modernities and the Formation of Media and Cultural Studies - Myungkoo Kang
- PART III: Economy and Power
- Media Economics - Alan B. Albarran
- The Political Economy of Communications - Janet Wasko
- Government, the State, and Media - Erik Neveu
- Media, Public Opinion, and Political Action - Holli A. Semetko
- Media and the Reinvention of the Nation - Silvio Waisbord
- News Media Production: Individuals, Organizations, and Institutions - D. Charles Whitney,Randall S. Sumpter and Denis McQuail
- PART IV: Specific Areas of Media Research
- Narrative and Genre - Horace Newcomb
- Sound Exchange: Media and Music Cultures - Nabeel Zuberi
- Advertising: A Synthetic Approach - Todd Joseph Miles Holden
- Broadcasting, Cable, and Satellites - Michele Hilmes
- Hollywood - Thomas Schatz and Alisa Perren
- Bollywood and Indian Cinema: Changing Contexts and Articulations of National Cultural Desire - Veena Naregal
- Media Violence and Sex: What Are the Concerns, Issues, and Effects? - Stacy L. Smith,Emily Moyer-Gusé and Edward Donnerstein
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors