John D. Jackson, Greg M. Nielsen and Yon Hsu
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Sociology, Communication, and Citizenship
1. Sources for a Critical Sociology of Mediated Society
Introduction
Critical Sociology: Exposing the Gap Between Real and Imaginary Audiences
Media Centred Approaches
Decentred
Approaches
Undoing Gender Norms
Summary
Enhanced Learning Activities
Annotated Further Reading
Useful Media
2. The Public Sphere
Introduction
Public Spaces
Media and Public Spaces
The State and the Commercial Imperative
Summary
Enhanced Learning
Activities
Annotated Further Reading
Notes
3. Citizenship and Audiences
Introduction
Mediated Society as a Social System
Audiences: Real or Imagined?
Audiences through the Lens of Social Research
The Media System And Responsibility
Summary
Enhanced Learning
Activities
Annotated Further Reading
Useful Media
Notes
4. Consumption and Advertising
Introduction
Consumption: The Paradoxical Phenomenon
The Marxist Perspective on Production and Consumption
Georg Simmel on Fashion and Urban Life
Leisure Class, Gender, and
Conspicuous Consumption
Classical Sociology of Consumption: The Limitation
Cultural Capital and Social Class
Feminist Critiques: Gender, Political Economy, and Consumption
Advertising as Mass Communication
De Certeau on Agency, Interpretation, and
Advertising
Summary
Enhanced Learning Activities
Annotated Further Reading
Useful Media
Notes
5. New Media, New World?
Introduction
New Media: A Contemporary Phenomenon
New Media: A Historical Phenomenon
The Sociological Imagination of New Media
TV: A
Continued Debate
New Media and Political Violence
Summary
Enhanced Learning Activities
Annotated Further Reading
Useful Media
Notes
Part II: Media Events and the Sociological Imagination
6. Global Media Events
Introduction
What Is
Globalization?
Global Media Domination and Resistance
Framing the News
Global Media Events as Spectacles
Mediating Citizenship Through Global Media Events
Missing Global Media Events
Dehumanization and Effacement
Missing News from the Global South
Summary
Enhanced
Learning Activities
Annotated Further Reading
Useful Media
7. National Media Events
Introduction
Multinational Canada and Public Broadcasting
A Double-Faced Janus: National Media, Social Order, and Disorder
English Canada: A Mediated Absent Nation
Multicultural
Framing: Common Memories and National Histories
Summary
Enhanced Learning Activities
Annotated Further Reading
Useful Media
8. Urban Media Events: Toronto and Montreal Case Studies
Introduction
Seriocomedy, Newspapers, and the Well-Ordered City
National Public
Broadcasting the Cultures of Urban Laughter
Toronto and the Absent Nation
Amalgamation Debates: Normal Disorder of the City?
Montreal and the Absent Region
Crossover Voices
Summary
Enhanced Learning Activities
Annotated Further Reading
Useful
Media
Notes
Part III: Social Problems through Journalism and Media
9. Reporting on Social Problems
Introduction
What Makes a Problem Social?
Reporting on Social Problems
Social Problems Imagined through Entertainment
Summary
Enhanced Learning
Activities
Annotated Further Reading
Useful Media
Notes
10. Journalism and Seriocomedy: Framing Poverty in Montreal Media
Introduction
Les Bougons: Seriocomedy and Poverty
Studying Newspapers: Frame Analysis and Keyword Search
Direct Talk in the Press: 'The Poorest of
the Poor'
'Our TV Poor' are at Peace
Journalistic Polemics on Politicians, Developers, and the State
Seriocomedy as Anarchy: Against the Common Good
Indirect Talk: Journalistic Accounts of Poor Reporting on Poor
Summary
Enhanced Learning Activities
Annotated Further
Reading
Useful Media
Notes
11. Framing Immigration as a Social Problem in The New York Times
Introduction
On US Immigration and New York City
What Is Conditional Hospitality?
Just, Unjust, and Extreme
Multicultural Practices and Changing Faces
Governance: Official
Discourse and Political Shocks
Social Movements: The Astonishment of Social Solidarity
How Can Public Journalism Reduce the Gap?
Summary
Enhanced Learning Activities
Annotated Further Reading
Useful Media
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
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John D. Jackson is professor emeritus and former professor of sociology at Concordia University in Montreal. He is a senior research fellow with Concordia University's Centre for Broadcasting Studies and was a member of the Canadian Editorial Board of the former Journal of Radio Studies. He is
presently involved in research addressing issues of audiences and public spaces.
Greg M. Nielsen is professor of sociology and director of the Centre for Broadcasting Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. He has published numerous essays and co-edited a dozen special issues of
journals on the themes of cultural studies, the sociology of media, social theory, and Canadian society. He is co-editor of Acts of Citizenship (London: Zed Press, 2008).
Yon Hsu received her PhD in Communication studies from Concordia University in Montreal in 2003. While currently
working as a communication officer in the private sector, she continues to pursue her research interests in the areas of intercultural communication and ethics as a research fellow with Concordia University's Centre for Broadcasting Studies. She is presently involved in research addressing issues of
global media representation and development in Asia.
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