Mass Media Social Control And Social Change

Author : David Demers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780922993659
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mass Media, Social Control and Social Change written by David Demers and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass Media, Social Control & Social Change is the only introduction to mass communication textbook on the market to examine the social control function of the mass media in depth. In similizing terms, media produce the thread that helps hold the fabric of modern society together, often to the detriment of disadvantaged groups and people. But unlike other books, this one doesn't argue that media are always repressive institutions. Sometimes media produce content that is critical of dominant values and elites. This content, in turn, can help facilitate or legitimate social change that benefits disadvantaged and challenging groups.

Author : David P. Demers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mass Media, Social Control, and Social Change written by David P. Demers and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elihu Katz
Publisher : London ; Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mass Media and Social Change written by Elihu Katz and published by London ; Beverly Hills, Calif. : Sage Publications. This book was released on 1981 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Taehyun Kim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983347699
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Mass Media Really Work written by Taehyun Kim and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two decades ago Professor Pamela J. Shoemaker reviewed 15 introduction to mass communication/media textbooks and concluded that their self-described purpose is to provide a global view of mass communication to neophytes, and their approach is largely descriptive. The textbooks contained little information about how media content (1) helps people, government and business leaders achieve their personal and professional goals and (2) reinforces dominant values and institutions. In other words, the textbooks have ignored or underplayed what sociologists call the social control function of the mass media. Drawing on decades of mass communication research as well as our own research, this book attempts to correct for these shortcomings. It shows that, contrary to popular wisdom, mass media and the content they produce play a crucial role in maintaining dominant values and social institutions. In similizing terminology, media produce the thread that helps hold the fabric of modern society together. But the social control function does not mean mass media are simply lap dogs of powerful elites. Media produce, from time to time, content that is critical of dominant values and elites. That content can legitimize and promote ideas that benefit nonelite or disadvantaged groups and individuals; that is, it can stimulate social change. In analyzing the role and function of the media, this book advocates neither a radical left nor a radical right perspective. But it does assume there is much more that mass media could do to eliminate injustice and inequity in the world. Social control and social change can result in both good and evil, and that determination often depends on who benefits and who does not from media coverage. This book was written to appeal to undergraduate and entry-level graduate students in the United States. The focus is interpretive it seeks to explain the why rather than the what.

Author : John Pollock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317981022
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and Social Inequality written by John Pollock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is among the first to systematically explore the impact of community inequality on reporting political and social change. Although most journalism scholars are still fascinated by the impact of media on society, Media and Social Inequality explores the reverse perspective: the impact of society on media. Using a 'community structure' approach, and rejecting the perspective that studies of media and audiences can be reduced to the individual level of psychological phenomena, all contributions examine connections between community-level 'macro' characteristics and variations in the coverage of critical issues. This innovative book differs from previous community structure volumes in two ways. First, contributions explore a far wider range of community characteristics by employing creative methodologies, modern archives, and databases that facilitate larger, more diverse samples; multilevel and longitudinal analyses; composite measures of both 'content' and editorial judgment; new technologies; and social network analysis. Second, a traditional emphasis on media as instruments of political and social 'control' is replaced by media as potential mirrors of social 'change,' exploring 'bottom-up' measures of 'vulnerability', 'concentrated disadvantage', and 'ethnic diversity/pluralism'. The volume contains two original chapters: one on nationwide US coverage of the "Occupy" movement in the expanded introduction, and another on nationwide US coverage of universal health care. This book was originally published as a special issue of Mass Communication and Society.

Author : Andrew M. Lindner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317749375
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Media Are Social written by Andrew M. Lindner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From TV to smartphone apps to movies to newspapers, mass media are nearly omnipresent in contemporary life and act as a powerful social institution. In this introduction to media sociology, Lindner and Barnard encourage readers to think critically about the power of big media companies, state-media relations, new developments in journalism, representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality in media, and what social media may or may not be doing to our brains, among other topics. Each chapter explores pressing questions about media by carefully excavating the results of classic and contemporary social scientific studies. The authors bring these findings to life with anecdotes and examples ripped from headlines and social media newsfeeds. By synthesizing research on new media and traditional media, entertainment media and news, quantitative and qualitative studies, All Media Are Social offers a succinct and accessibly-written analysis of both enduring patterns and some of the newest developments in mass media. With strong emphases on theory and methods, Lindner and Barnard provide students and general readers alike with the tools to better understand the ever-changing media landscape.

Author : Jan Servaes
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498523471
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media written by Jan Servaes and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-08-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This volume contains chapters by an international array of scholars and provides case studies from various countries with critical empirical analysis of social inequalities and how they shape media narratives and experiences. The topics examined here include poverty in the media in Britain and Turkey, technology and inequality in Italy and Bangladesh, gender, inequality, and empowerment in India, Mexico, and Australia, and cross national analysis of rape culture, among others.

Author : David L. Altheide
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media Logic written by David L. Altheide and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1979-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes such social institutions as politics, religion, and sport as they are presented and transformed by the media to affect our shared stock of knowledge. Altheide and Snow move beyond a consideration of the reasons for the picture given by media of these institutions and the ways in which media has impact, to a more pervasive view of our culture as shaped by the media that are a part of it. 'Altheide and Snow do successfully show how a common media logic has gripped such apparently different areas as spectator politics, sport and religion. They do show how all other media tend to conform to a dominant television format.' -- The Media Reporter, Spring 1980

Author : Sandro Galea
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 038770812X
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macrosocial Determinants of Population Health written by Sandro Galea and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores social factors such as culture, mass media, political systems, and migration that influence public health while systematically considering how we may best study these factors and use our knowledge from this study to guide public health interventions. Throughout, contributors emphasize the potential of population strategies to influence traditional risk factors associated with health and disease. Each section ends with Galea’s integrative chapters, bringing the observations and conclusions from the chapters into clear, usable focus.

Author : Liddell Henry
Publisher : Scientific e-Resources
ISBN 13 : 1839474300
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Control and Social Change written by Liddell Henry and published by Scientific e-Resources. This book was released on 2019-08-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socialization is predominately an unconscious process by which a new born child learns the values, beliefs, rules and regulations of society or internalizes the culture in which it born. Social control is described in detail at the end of the book. It is intended as a book for undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology and a reference tool to the researchers and academic professionals this comprehensive and well-structured book presents in a systematic way the Social Control and Social Change. The book is undoubtedly a valuable asset for the students, researchers as well as teachers of sociology. In addition, general readers concerned with social aspects and social progress will find it extremely informative.