Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction - Softcover

Downing, John D. H.; Mohammadi, Ali; Sreberny, Annabelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803936435 ISBN 13: 9780803936430

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1990

Synopsis

This practical, highly accessible volume is designed to introduce students and general readers to the field of media studies, inviting readers to be active participants in the process of understanding the importance of media today. Questioning the Media is an introductory text with a difference - no previous book has provided so wide a sweep of coverage on critical approaches to communication and the media from top international and interdisciplinary authors. They present diverse critical perspectives on media communication including political economy, cultural studies, Frankfurt School critical theory, feminism, audience ethnography and cultural dependency.

Topics discussed include: freedom of information in a cens

About this title

About the Authors

John Downing is Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the Univeristy of Texas, Austin. He is a co-editor of Questioning the Media (1990) and has contributed to the journals Media, Culture & Society and Discourse & Society

Dr Ali Mohammadi is Reader in the Department of English and Media Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is co-author with Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, of Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication and Culture and The Iranian Revolution (1994). He is also co-editor of Questioning the Media (1994)

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Oliver Boyd-Barrett University of Leicester

Cees Hamelink University of Amsterdam

Ralph Negrine University of Leicester

John Tomlinson Nottingham Trent University

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803936435
• ISBN 13: 9780803936430
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 386