Research Catalog

Title

Public communication : the new imperatives : future directions for media research / edited by Marjorie Ferguson.

Publication

London ; Newbury Park : Sage Publications, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ferguson, Marjorie.

Description

xiii, 210 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Communications experts address major issues at the heart of modern public communication in this volume, which highlights the current transformation of media systems, and explores the impact upon them of new ownership and regulatory structures, policies and technologies.

Series Statement

Sage communications in society

Uniform Title

Sage communications in society

Subject

• Mass media
• Communication > Social aspects
• Mass media > Social aspects
• Communication > Political aspects
• Communication > Economic aspects
• Mass media > Economic aspects
• mass media
• Mass media > Social aspects
• Mass media > Economic aspects
• Communication > Social aspects
• Communication > Political aspects
• Communication > Economic aspects
• Mass media
• Massenkommunikation
• Massenmedien
• Politische Kommunikation
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Massamedia
• Onderzoek
• Société médiatique
• Communication > Aspect social
• Politique des mass media
• Médias

Note

• "Results from a two-day workshop devoted to 'Classic Issues of Mass Communication Research' ... sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) and held at Madingley Hall in Cambridge on 27-9 April 1988."--P. [xiii]
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [190]-204.

Contents

Redrawing the map of the communications industries: concentration and ownership in the era of privatization / Graham Murdock -- Communication policy in the global information economy: whither the public interest? / William M. Melody -- Regulating communications media: from the discretion of sound chaps to the arguments of lawyers / James Michael -- Rethinking the sociology of journalism: source strategies and the limits of media-centrism / Philip Schlesinger -- Political communication and citizenship: the media and democracy in an inegalitarian social order / Peter Golding -- Elections, the media and the modern publicity process / Jay G. Blumler -- Culturalist perspectives of news organizations: a reappraisal and a case study / James Curran -- Communication research past, present and future: American roots and European branches / Denis McQuail -- Electronic media and the redefining of time and space / Marjorie Ferguson -- Television and everyday life: towards an anthropology of the television audience / Roger Silverstone.

ISBN

• 0803982674
• 9780803982673
• 0803982682
• 9780803982680

LCCN

89062648

OCLC

• ocm28417020
• 28417020
• SCSB-1891589

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library