Product Description: Civil Society has not been more relevant as a concept and a practice since the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. Global events from Tahir Square to Wall St have brought a new relevance and urgency to questions about the boundaries of legitimate dissent and public order policing, the meaning of tolerance in the context of conflicting rights claims, and how we can agree on the shared values of the ’good society’...read more

Essays discuss the role of the teacher, higher education, literacy, class bias in education, mass culture, the future of broadcasting, conformity, cultural development, and the mass media

Contains the classic texts in the development of the field in Britain. The book aims to provide all the essential readings in one volume.

Product Description: The controversy surrounding the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism has raised unprecedented questions about the communication of health and science. Health, Risk and News: The MMR Vaccine and the Media examines how this story came to be so influential and asks if the media are to blame for unduly panicking the public...read more

Product Description: British Media in a Global Era discusses the historical, political, economic and cultural aspects of the media in Britain. Focusing on the national media landscape, the development and role of the British media is examined within a European and international context.

Product Description: This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction of masculine identities in the context of prisons. It is based upon unique research into the nature, impact and consequences of a situation where most prisoners in English prisons have access to some media resource, whether radio or television, or with communal or individual access to it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: How can we study popular culture? What makes 'popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have?An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The Media in Britain brings together a range of distinguished and newer scholars to provide a comprehensive and engaging review of contemporary debates in media studies. The first and second parts discuss the principal media industries in Britain before looking at the impact of media policy on their structure and activities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book considers the different constraints (in the law, cultural customs, and self-regulation) affecting broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic and the means by which they have responded to them. The book describes, with examples, the operations of compliance regulations and standard controls...read more

Examines the relationship between fame and the media that helps to create and market it (view table of contents)

This book is a thorough and lively introduction to the role, importance, and power of the mass media in contemporary British spciety. What is the mass media, and how does it help shape life in modern Britain?: After introducing the student to discussions around these questions, the authors examine the historical development of the mass media, issues of ownership, and the roots of its power in the public and political sphere.Contemporary issues surrounding today's media are also addressed. What is the role of the audience? How do people take pleasure from media culture? What are the issues surrounding the news, advertising, public services broadcasting, the shaping of public understanding, censorship, violence, and `moral panics'? the authors also finally look towards the future, considering prospects for a global media and the possible effects of the information superhighway. This book will be an invaluable introduction and point of reference for students of sociology, media studies, politics and human geography, and for anyone interested in our mass media.

Examines the life of the British publisher and financier, and looks at his rule over the Mirror and his role in 'Mirrorgate'

Traces the life of the controversial British publisher, recounts how he built his empire, and examines the charges of mismanagement that surfaced after his mysterious death

Essays discuss the role of the teacher, higher education, literacy, class bias in education, mass culture, the future of broadcasting, conformity, cultural development, and the mass media