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Critical Theories of Mass Media : Then and Now
NRs.
1256
Author: Paul A. Taylor , Jan L. Harris
ISBN: 9780070706774
Size: 150 x 230 mm
Pages: 233
Publisher: Mcgraw Hill

Description

With the exception of occasional moral panics about the coarsening of public discourse, and the impact of advertising and television violence upon children, mass media tend to be viewed as a largely neutral or benign part of contemporary life. Even when criticisms are voiced, the media chooses how and when to discuss its own inadequacies. More radical external critiques are often excluded and media theorists are frequently more optimistic than realistic about the negative aspects of mass culture.
This book reassesses this situation in the light of both early and contemporary critical scholarship and explores the intimate relationship between the mass media and the dis-empowering nature of commodity culture. The authors cast a fresh perspective on contemporary mass culture by comparing past and present critiques.

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