This is an exploration of the ways in which the mass media of communication influence and reflect the character of racial and ethnic identity, and the relations between individuals and groups. A structural perspective is one which emphasizes the regularity of patterns of behaviour, ideas, images, opinions, and relationships, and argues that this regularoty reflects the influence of structure. The structural perspective which is elaborated in this book describes structures as being dynamic and subject to change. Such change occurs primarily at historical junctures we associate with critical events. Cognitive structures, market structures, and structures of representation of similarity and difference are shown to be related to each other in ways that change over time. Solid binding. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

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Title: Communication and Race
Publisher: Hodder Arnold
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0340676892
ISBN 13: 9780340676899
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Book Type: Book

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This book provides a comprehensive review of scholarly approaches to understanding the place of race and ethnicity in the evolving systems of information media. It explores the concept of race through three streams of analysis: media systems and institutions, communication frames and symbolic representations; and social constructions. Borrowing insights from behavioral science, political economy, and the more interpretative strands of contemporary cultural studies, the book enters directly into the contemporary debate about structure and agency, and ends by proposing an agenda for the development of critical theory in the area of race and ethnicity.

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O. Gandy, Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

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