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Understanding Media
Communication, Power and Social Change
Brief Description
An authoritative and accessible guide to the world's most influential force - the contemporary media. Our lives are more mediated than ever before. Adults in economically advanced countries spend on average over eight hours per day interacting with the media. The world now has more than...
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Description
An authoritative and accessible guide to the world's most influential force - the contemporary media.
Our lives are more mediated than ever before. Adults in economically advanced countries spend on average over eight hours per day interacting with the media. The world now has more than 5 billion internet users, and big tech continues to amass more and more money and power. Are we living through a media revolution? Understanding Media addresses this question by drawing on decades of research investigating how the news, television, film and technology are intertwined with power and social change.
Changes in the media are related to wider changes in society. The media have supported dictatorship in some places, social liberalism in others, and reflect the spread of neoliberal orthodoxy and inequality around much of the globe.
Tracing overarching trends while attending to crucial local context, from the United States to China, Norway to Malaysia, and Brazil to Britain, this book arms the reader with the facts and perspectives needed to navigate the reality of the media and the world we live in.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241685402
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 04 April 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pelican
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 41.0mm
Width: 144.0mm
Height: 222.0mm
Weight: 573g
Pages: 464
About the Author
James Curran is Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the co-author of the award-winning Power Without Responsibility and his other books include Media and Democracy and Media and Power. Joanna Redden is an Associate Professor at Western University. She is co-author of Data Justice and her other books include The Mediation of Poverty and the co-edited Compromised Data- From Social Media to Big Data.
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