Book Description
The contributors present diverse critical perspectives on media communication including political economy, cultural studies, Frankfurt School critical theory, feminism, audience ethnography and cultural dependency. They discuss such topics as:
} freedom of information in a censorship age
} managerial control mechanisms within media institutions
} Soviet media before and after glasnost
} commercial surveillance of audiences
} information technology in the developed and under-developed worlds
} media representations of gender and race
} sports coverage
} film as art, as industry and as language.
Each chapter introduces a different way of thinking about the media and offers a different framework. The reader is invited to be an active participant in the process of understanding the importance of media today.
