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Format:
Paperback
560 pp.
204 mm x 248 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195597240

Copyright Year:
2017

Imprint: Oxford University Press


Media and Society

Sixth Edition

Michael O'Shaughnessy, Jane Stadler and Sarah Casey

Media and Society explores the relationship between the media, their institutions and the world we live in, examining how they are connected and how society and the media affect each other. The book analyses representations of the world found in films, television, advertisements, news and online to understand the impact of the media in the contemporary world. The sixth edition explores several themes throughout the text, including the contradictory nature of the media and the psychological concerns of the media, to provide clear explanations of complex theories and ideas.

Readership : This is a textbook for first year undergraduate students, completing an introductory unit on media studies.

Part 1: Getting Ready: The Media
1. Defining the Media
2. Media Studies
3. What Do the Media Do to Us? Media and Society
4. What's in a Name? Language and the Social Construction of Reality
5. Mediation and Representation
6. Texts, Meanings and Audiences
7. New Media and Technological Development
Part 2: Pictures: Semiotic Analysis
8. Semiology
9. Reading Images and Advertisements
10. Model Essay: Semiotic Analysis of an Advertisement
Part 3: Making Sense: Discourse, Ideology and Hegemony
11. Discourse and Ideology
12. Dominant Ideology and Hegemony
13. Culture Jamming and Counter-hegemony
Part 4: Stories: Approaches for Narrative Analysis
14. Genres, Codes and Conventions
15. The Language of Film: American Beauty
16. Narrative Structure and Binary Oppositions
17. Digital Television and Interactive Narratives
18. Documentary and Reality TV
19. Why Stories?
Part 5: Media and Identity: Representation, Impact and Influence
20. Feminism, Post-feminism and Ideology of Femininity
21. Ideologies and Discourses of Masculinity
22. Ethnicity, Ideology and the Media
23. Stars and Celebrities
Part 6: But They Keep Moving the Posts: Postmodern and Global Perspectives
24. Postmodernism
25. Globalisation

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Michael O'Shaughnessy is formerly School of Media and Communications at Edith Cowan University. Jane Stadler is Associate Professor, Film and Media Studies at the University of Queensland. Sarah Casey is in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science at Griffith University.

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Special Features

  • The essential text for studying the role and impact of media within contemporary society.
  • The only book to take a semiotic approach to media.
  • Provides a clear explanation of complex theories and ideas like feminism and ethnicity.
  • An Australian text but it also uses international examples, primarily from the USA, South Africa and the UK.