Media, Culture & Society: A Critical Reader (Media Culture & Society series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803997485 ISBN 13: 9780803997486

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1986

Synopsis

Media, Culture & Society has pioneered a unique approach to media analysis. Since 1979, it has published some of the finest theoretical and historical work in communication and cultural studies from Britain and Europe. The articles in this reader are grouped in three parts, representing a selection of the best work. Each part is preceded by an introductory essay which helps students understand the issues presented, and places the theoretical contributions in context.

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About the Author

Paddy Scannell worked for many years at the University of Westminster (London) where he and his colleagues established, in 1975, the first undergraduate degree program in Media Studies in the UK. He is a founding editor of Media, Culture and Society which began publication in 1979 and is now issued six times yearly. He is the author of A Social History of British Broadcasting, 1922-1939 which he wrote with David Cardiff, editor of Broadcast Talk and author of Radio, Television and Modern Life. He is currently working on a trilogy. The first volume, Media and Communication, was published in June 2007. Professor Scannell is now working on the second volume, Television and the Meaning of ′Live.′ The third volume, Love and Communication, is in preparation. His research interests include broadcasting history and historiography, the analysis of talk, the phenomenology of communication and culture and communication in Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0803997485
• ISBN 13: 9780803997486
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Collins Richard E., Curran James, Garnham Nicholas, Scannell Paddy, Schlesinger Philip, Sparks Colin