TY - BOOK AU - Curran, James, ed. AU - Gurevitch, Michael, ed. TI - Mass media and society SN - 9780340884997 U1 - 302.23 PY - 2005/// CY - London PB - Hodder Arnold KW - Mass media--Social aspects KW - Mass media--Political aspects KW - Mass media and culture N1 - Reconstructing the ruined tower: contemporary communications and questions of class / Graham Murdock -- Recent developments in feminist communication theory: difference, public sphere, body and technology / Andrea L. Press -- Race, ethnicity and the segmentation of media markets / Oscar H. Gandy -- Culture, communications and political economy / Peter Golding and Graham Murdock -- The global and the local in international communications / Annabelle Sreberny -- Rethinking media and democracy / James Curran -- Rethinking the study of political communication / Jay G. Blumer and Michael Gurevitch -- The sociology of news production revisited (again) / Michael Schudson -- Entertainment / Simon Firth. Con't. -- Commercialism and professionalism in the American news media / Daniel C. Hallin -- In defence of objectivity revisited / Judith Lichtenberg -- The return to cultural production. Case study: fashion journalism / Angela McRobbie -- From dead trees to live wires: the Internet's challenge to the traditional newspaper / Colin Sparks -- National prisms of a global 'media event' / Chin-Chuan Lee [and others] -- Media, citizenship and civic culture / Peter Dahlgren -- Globalization and cultural identities / Keith Negus and Patria Roman-Velazquez -- No gain, no game? Media and sport / David Rowe -- Representation and popular culture: semiotics and the construction of meaning / Christie Geraghty -- 'Influence': the contested core of media research / John Corner ER -