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Media and democracy / James Curran.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Communication and societyPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: x, 255 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415317061 (hardback)
  • 9780415317078 (pbk.)
  • 9780203406878 (e-book)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23   22
Contents:
Introduction -- Comparing media. Shining city on hill -- Questioning a new orthodoxy -- Media system, public knowledge and democracy -- Med ia and democratic theory. Entertaining democracy -- Liberal dreams and the internet -- Media and new technology. Technology foretold -- Future of journalism -- Media and history. Narratives of media history revisi ted -- Press as an agency of social control -- advertising as a bounty system -- Media and culture. Media as custodians of cultural tradition -- Media and cultural theory in the age of market liberalism.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Books - Open Access Books - Open Access CHUSS - Mass Communication Book Bank 302.23 CUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available BB227330
Books - Open Access Books - Open Access CHUSS - Mass Communication Book Bank 302.23 CUR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available BB227331

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-246) and index.

Introduction -- Comparing media. Shining city on hill -- Questioning a new orthodoxy -- Media system, public knowledge and democracy -- Med ia and democratic theory. Entertaining democracy -- Liberal dreams and the internet -- Media and new technology. Technology foretold -- Future of journalism -- Media and history. Narratives of media history revisi ted -- Press as an agency of social control -- advertising as a bounty system -- Media and culture. Media as custodians of cultural tradition -- Media and cultural theory in the age of market liberalism.

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