In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives originating in scie...(展开全部)

In this classic text, James W. Carey maintains that communication is not merely the transmission of information; reminding the reader of the link between the words 'communication' and 'community', he broadens his definition to include the drawing - together of a people that is culture. In this context, Carey questions the American tradition of focusing only on mass communicatio...(展开全部)

In this classic text, James W. Carey maintains that communication is not merely the transmission of information; reminding the reader of the link between the words 'communication' and 'community', he broadens his definition to include the drawing - together of a people that is culture. In this context, Carey questions the American tradition of focusing only on mass communicatio...(展开全部)

Media and Society is an established title, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. The book is organised into three key areas of debate: media and society, media production and mediations. Each new edition of the book has sought to be a textbook that encompasses the fi...(展开全部)

Media and Society is an established title, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. The book is organised into three key areas of debate: media and society, media production and mediations. Each new edition of the book has sought to be a textbook that encompasses the fi...(展开全部)

James Curran is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Michael Gurevitch is Professor in the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.

"An original contribution to media studies. Beautifully organized, well written and incisive."--James Carey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The best collection of current thinking in the field."--Elihu Katz, Israel Institute of Applied Social Research "A valuable and stimulating collection for students of the mass media--a very worthy successor to the editors' earl...(展开全部)

"An original contribution to media studies. Beautifully organized, well written and incisive."--James Carey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The best collection of current thinking in the field."--Elihu Katz, Israel Institute of Applied Social Research "A valuable and stimulating collection for students of the mass media--a very worthy successor to the editors' earl...(展开全部)