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Media Regulation
"An exemplary study of how media regulation works (and, by implication, how it could work better) set within a wider discussion of democratic theory and political values. It will be of interest not only to students and scholars but to people around the world grappling with the same problem: the need to regulate markets, and the difficulty of doing this well." - James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London In Media Regulation, two leading scholars of the media examine the challenges of regulation in the global mediated sphere. This book explores the way that regulation affects the relations between government, the media and communications market, civil society, citizens and consumers. Drawi...
Stanley Milgram
In a series of ingenious studies, social psychologist Stanley Milgram, examined the impact of modern society on the psychology of individuals. His most famous experiment saw participants commanded to administer painful electric shocks to supposed fellow volunteers and their compliance raised serious questions about the limits of moral autonomy and the ability of individuals to resist authority. Lunt explores the historical and cultural setting of Milgram's social psychology, his intellectual roots and the continuing relevance of his research today. This authoritative introduction is essential reading for all those interested in the psychology of power and obedience.
Talk on Television
Not only is everyday conversation increasingly dependent on television, but more and more people are appearing on television to discuss social and personal issues. Is any public good served by these programmes or are they simply trashy entertainment which fills the schedules cheaply? Talk on Television examines the value and significance of televised public debate. Analysing a wide range of programmes including Kilroy, Donohue and The Oprah Winfrey Show, the authors draw on interviews with both the studio participants and with those watching at home. They ask how the media manage discussion programmes and whether the programmes really are providing new 'spaces' for public participators. They find out how audiences interpret the programmes when they appear on the screen themselves, and they unravel the conventions - debate, romance, therapy - which make up the genre. They also consider TV's function as a medium of education and information, finally discussing the dangers and opportunities the genre holds for audience participation and public debate in the future.
Goffman and the Media
Erving Goffman's much-loved works are still widely cited in the field of media and communication. His work has stimulated research on news framing, mass media and social media, inviting new insights about how communication, self, audiences and public life are mediated by, but also transcend, particular technological forms. What explains the continuing relevance of this highly original theorist? In this important new book, Peter Lunt critically reconstructs Goffman's analysis of language and the 'interaction order'. He examines how and why the concepts developed by Goffman – face-work and the mediated self, front and back stage, impression management, media frames and logics, footing and interaction rituals – still resonate across the field. Ultimately, Goffman's work emerges not only as an enduring influence, but as a source of new inspiration in our ever more interactive world. Original and incisive, Goffman and the Media is crucial reading for students and scholars encountering this fascinating thinker from a media studies perspective.
Talk on Television
On audience participation on TV talk shows
Zimbabwe's Cinematic Arts
This timely book reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that play out in broadly accessible local and foreign film and television, Katrina Daly Thompson shows how viewers interpret these media and how they impact everyday life, language use, and thinking about community. She offers a unique understanding of how media reflect and contribute to Zimbabwean culture, language, and ethnicity.
Social Psychology and Social Theory
Social Psychology and Social Theory is a major new book that looks at a variety of approaches to social psychology through the lens of social theory. It introduces the student and researcher to many elements of social theory that are relevant to social psychology and gives them a strong grounding in the relevant literature (i.e. Foucault, Habermas, Lyotard, Derrida, Bourdieu etc), helping them to understand major social psychological theories - from social identity to social influence - in this context. It keeps the discussion of social theory clear and relevant at every step. The book contains and addresses the following: a discussion of the dispersal of social psychological topics across t...
Media Regulation
Here, two of the world's foremost media studies academics explore media regulation and its impact on government, commerce and civil society.
Economic Socialization
This is a study of how children come to understand the economic world. It is set against the background of a western society that lacks formal training in economics, although it uses and interprets the economy with some skill. The book is international and interdisciplinary in scope.
Chinese Social Media
This book examines the social media experiences of middle class Chinese adolescents. Their enthusiasm for self-expression online, their mediated social relations (guanxi) with family, friends, classmates and colleagues are analysed in the context of China's modernity.
