Research Catalog

Title

The media in Australia : industries, texts, audiences / edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner.

Publication

St Leonards, N.S.W., Australia : Allen & Unwin, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cunningham, Stuart.
• Turner, Graeme.

Description

xviii, 490 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

Since it was first published in 1993, The Media in Australia has become the most popular introduction for students, teachers and anyone interested in how the Australian media works. It covers the history and current state of play of the main print and broadcast media as well as chapters on popular music, film, advertising, media analysis and media audiences. Fully updated and expanded to take recent developments into account, this second edition incorporates new material on magazine publishing, convergence, the effect of new technologies, including electronic publishing and the internet, and the development of the information society.

Subject

• Mass media > Australia
• Mass media
• Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-467) and index.

Contents

Figures -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Preface -- Pt. 1 The media in Australia today / Graeme Turner and Stuart Cunningham -- Pt. 2 The media industries -- The press / Julianne Schultz -- Radio / Toby Miller -- Film / Elizabeth Jacka -- Television / Stuart Cunningham -- Magazines / Frances Bonner -- Advertising / John Sinclair -- Popular music / Marcus Breen -- Converging and emerging industries: video, pay TV and multimedia / Gillian Appleton -- Pt. 3 Media institutions: organisation, culture and production -- The press / Rodney Tiffen -- Radio / Helen Molnar -- Film / Elizabeth Jacka -- Television / Frances Bonner -- Advertising / John Sinclair -- Popular music / Marcus Breen -- Pt. 4 Media texts and messages / Graeme Turner -- Media analysis: competing traditions -- From message to text -- Texts and social meanings -- Text and medium -- Texts and audiences: theories of textual analysis -- Pt. 5 Media audiences -- Introduction / Virginia Nightingale -- Industry measurement of audiences / Virginia Nightingale -- The vulnerable audience: effects traditions / Virginia Nightingale -- The active audience: reception traditions / Graeme Turner -- Pt 6. Media futures / Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew -- Media futures: why study them? -- The information society -- Change factors in the media -- Media studies towards 2000 -- References -- Index.

ISBN

• 1864482737
• 9781864482737

LCCN

97189485

OCLC

• ocm37052144
• 37052144
• SCSB-574205

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library