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Striptease Culture
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 31.95From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture. Striptease Culture explores the 'sexualization' of contemporary life, relating it to wider changes in post-war society. Striptease Culture is divided in to three sections: * Part one ? traces the development of pornography, following... more...
An Introduction to Political Communication
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 35.95An Introduction to Political Communication explores the relationship between politics, the media and democracy in the UK, the USA and other contemporary societies. Brian McNair examines how politicians, trade unions, pressure groups, non-governmental organizations and terrorist organizations make use of the media. Separate chapters look at political... more...
Journalism and Democracy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 52.95The public sphere is said to be in crisis. Dumbing down, tabloidisation, infotainment and spin are alleged to contaminate it, adversely affecting the quality of political journalism and of democracy itself. There is a pervasive pessimism about the relationship between the media and democracy, and widespread concern for the future of the political process.... more...
Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 158.00The reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have brought tumultuous change to political, social and economic life in the Soviet Union. But how have these changes affected Soviet press and television reporting? Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media examines the changing role of Soviet journalism from its theoretical origins in the writings of Marx and Lenin... more...
Cultural Chaos
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 35.95Explores the relationship between journalism and power in an globalized news culture, with examples drawn from media coverage such as of the war on terror, this book provides coverage of topics such as an overview of the evolution of the sociology of journalism. It examines implications of various trends on journalism and political processes. more...
Journalists in Film
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 133.00We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls regularly indicate that we experience a kind of cultural schizophrenia in our relationship to journalists and the news media: sometimes they are viewed as heroes, at other times villains. From Watergate... more...
An Introduction to Political Communication
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 39.95An Introduction to Political Communication introduces students to the complex relationship between politics, the media and democracy in the United Kingdom, United States and other contemporary societies. Brian McNair examines how politicians, trade unions, pressure groups, NGOs and terrorist organisations make use of the media. Individual... more...
Porno?Chic!
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95Porno? Chic! examines the relationship between the proliferation of pornography and sexualised culture in the West and social and cultural trends which have advanced the rights of women and homosexuals. Brian McNair addresses this relationship with an analysis of trends in sexualised culture since 2002 linked to a transnational analysis of change... more...
News and Journalism in the UK
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 39.95News and Journalism in the UK is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of press and broadcast journalism in Britain and Northern Ireland. Surveying the industry in a period of radical economic and technological change, Brian McNair examines the main trends in journalistic media in... more...
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