Understanding media theory / Kevin Williams.

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Published: London : Arnold ; 2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Unravelling media theory
  • Sect. 1. Developing the field: a history of media theory
  • 1. Mass society and modernity: early media theory
  • 2. Schools of thought: developing approaches to media theory
  • Sect. 2. The production process
  • 3. The censorship of money: theories of media ownership and control
  • 4. Inside the image factory: theories of media organisation and media work
  • Sect. 3. Media content
  • 5. Telling it as it is? Questions of media representation
  • 6. Ways of making you think: theories of ideology and meaning
  • Sect. 4. Theories of media effects and audiences
  • 7. Effects, what effects? Power and influence of the media
  • 8. The audience strikes back: new audience and reception theory
  • Sect. 5. Media change and media theory
  • 9. Living in the global village: new media theory.