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"Media Media, Politics and Democracy" provides a broad ranging overview of all aspects of the relationship between the media and politics. Drawing its examples from a range of developed liberal democracies, the book combines an accessible account of the political impact and regulation of the mass media with an assessment of the democratic potential and anti-democratic dangers of new media technologies
| ISBN | 0333693051 | | Pages | 320 | | ISBN13 | 9780333693056
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Weight (grammes) | 411 | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780333693049 | | Publication date | 01 Mar 2001 | | Height (mm) | 215 | | Library of Congress | P95.8.S77 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 302.23 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, General, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Acknowledgements | | | | | | Introduction | | 1 | | Pt. 1 | | Representing Politics | | | | 1 | | Political bias | | 15 | | 2 | | Telling tales: the reporting of politics | | 36 | | 3 | | It's just for fun: politics and entertainment | | 60 | | 4 | | Media effects | | 80 | | Pt. 2 | | The Political Economy of Mass Media | | | | 5 | | State control and state propaganda | | 103 | | 6 | | Conglomerate control: media moguls and media power | | 124 | | 7 | | Watchdogs or lapdogs? The politics of journalism | | 145 | | 8 | | Dream worlds: globalization and the webs of power | | 163 | | Pt. 3 | | Mass Media and Democracy | | | | 9 | | Packaging politics | | 185 | | 10 | | Remote control | | 212 | | 11 | | Power and mass media | | 231 | | 12 | | A free press: democracy and mass media | | 250 | | | | Conclusion | | 273 | | | | Bibliography | | 278 | | | | Index | | 294 |
'Stylish, readable and packed with telling examples from around the world, Mass Media, Politics and Democracy is wide-ranging in its coverage of different media and genres. In a world obscured by spin, soundbites and multivarious political conflict, John Street is an illuminating - and often entertaining - guide.' - Professor Douglas Kellner, UCLA  Be the first to write a customer review
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