TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hodkinson, Paul.
TI  - Media, culture and society: an introduction 
SN  - 9781412920520 (hbk.)
U1  - 302.23072 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Los Angeles
PB  - SAGE
KW  - Mass media research
N1  - Contents; Introduction --
; Media technologies --
; Media industry --
; Media content --
; Media users --
; Media as manipulation? : Marxism and ideology --
; The construction of news --
; Public service or personal entertainment? : Controlling media orientation --
; Decline of the national public : commercialization, fragmentation and globalization --
; Media, ethnicity and diaspora --
; Media, gender and sexuality --
; Media communities : subcultures, fans and identity groups --
; Saturation, fluidity and loss of meaning
N2  -  	
Clearly organized, systematic and combining a critical survey of the field with a finely judged assessment of cutting edge developments, this book provides a contribution to media and communication studies. The text is organized into three distinctive parts, which fall neatly into research and teaching requirements
ER  -