Bücher der Reihe Communication and Society

The first comprehensive study of the international popular music industry. The book examines how the industry is responding to the need to produce global starand discusses the effect of new media technologies.

A survey of the role and the future prospects of the local press in the 1990s. The authors also take into account the radical changes the local press have experienced with the advent of new technology and the proliferation of the free newspaper.

Seeking to understand youth culture through its visual and musical expression, this book presents a pioneering study of rock bands and their fans.

Investigates how those in positions of power use and are influenced by media in their everyday activities. This book presents discussions which are illustrated with original research material from a range of communication environments and case study examples.

Offers a critical introduction to media systems in North America and Western Europe. This book provides a survey and a contribution to comparative media analysis addressing the economic, social, political, regulatory and cultural aspects of Western media systems.

Critical Communication Studies provides a substantive foundation for the understanding of the history and development of communication studies as a critical discipline.

How have the tumultuous changes in the Soviet Union affected the Soviet press and television reporting? This detailed study looks at the changing role of journalism and the media in the Gorbachev era.

Examining major corporations such as Disney, AOL, Time Warner and News Corporation, and networks, including Al Jazeera, Indian Films and Brazilian TV in China, this title provides an analysis of the dynamics of the international flow of images and ideas. It examines the alternative media flows against the US-led global flows with case studies.

The role of the mass media in the world of politcs has become increasingly influential and controversial. This book traces the origins and development of this phenomena, basing discussion on critiques of BBC election coverage since 1966.

Addressing a multitude of questions and issues surrounding how we use the media, this book represents the results of an international research programme into the use and effects of television, video and music.

The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long been established as being at the forefront of media studies. This collection is an ideal introduction to their recent work.

"Media Moguls" details the emergence of a few very powerful individuals in control of large sections of world communications industries during an era of media de-regulation. The book considers the transatlantic trade of Hollywood television, the international news agencies and the influence of media lobbying over EC policy-makers.

Television sports coverage is examined in the first study of its kind. This book considers the historical development of sport on television and the way that sponsorship and television have re-shaped sport.

Examines the debate about popular fiction in the last two decades and its position within popular culture, with reference to crime fiction, soap opera, romance and TV sitcoms.

A close examination of American journalism with particular emphasis placed upon television news. Hallin looks at an institution that is torn between the needs of the market, political ideology and popular fashion, and journalistic professionalism.

In a series of case studies from Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the contributors explore relationships between media, power and society in a variety of regional and national contexts, and the effects of globalization.

A classic study of the workings of the Hollywood television industry. The reader is taken behind the scenes to see how shows get their air time and how they are shaped by the political and cultural climate of the time.

The first collection of cultural studies essays from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.

In an examination of talk shows such as "Kilroy" and "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the authors analyze the "experts," contribution, the conventions of the genre, and the dangers and opportunities of televised public debates.

Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world's most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. But is television entertainment art? Why do so many love it and so many hate or fear it? Does it offer a window to the world, or images of a fake world? This book addresses these questions offering examples.

The theme of McLuhan's book is the distinction between two quite different traditions of reasoning which have grown up in Western and Eastern countries, and how global communications have brought these two traditions into contact.

Suitable for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies, this book challenges the traditional scholarship on various issues such as: comparative political and media systems; theories of democracy, representation and the public sphere; and, political party communication, marketing and elections.

Examines how the attacks of 9/11 continue to transform the nature of journalism, particularly in the United States and Britain. This book brings together a group of scholars and media commentators to explore journalism's present and future, by engaging with issues such as trauma, free speech, censorship, patriotism, impartiality, and celebrity.

This volume explores the relationship between politics, the media and democracy in the United Kingdom, the United States and other contemporary societies.

Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international news coverage of Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore the current state of news coverage of the continent and its people. The book makes a substantial contribution by moving the academic discussion beyond the traditional critiques of journalistic stereotyping, Afro-pessimism, and `dark Africa' news coverage, and by exploring the international power dynamics, and the structures and technologies of global news production which shape and reshape the contemporary media image of Africa.

Ill Effects argues that the question of media influence needs to be debated by those with a clearer understanding of how audiences and media interact with one another.