Books in the Communication and Society series

Addressing the complicated economic and policy issues of telecommunications in Europe, this study discusses the evolution of central telephone networks, equipment supply, value-added networks and new telecommunications-related services on a country-by-country basis.

A survey of the role and the future prospects of the local press in the 1990s. The authors also take into account the radical changes the local press have experienced with the advent of new technology and the proliferation of the free newspaper.

Offering an booklength exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV.

Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last two decades. Ellen Mickiewicz's volume challenges us to consider how television has become Mikhail Gorbachev's most powerful instrument for paving the way for major reform. Mickiewicz explores the changes in programming that have occurred as a result of glasnost.

Examines the debate about popular fiction in the last two decades and its position within popular culture, with reference to crime fiction, soap opera, romance and TV sitcoms.

A close examination of American journalism with particular emphasis placed upon television news. Hallin looks at an institution that is torn between the needs of the market, political ideology and popular fashion, and journalistic professionalism.

A collection of essays on the moral rights of the subjects of documentary film and television. It examines the conflicts between the subject's right to privacy, the public's right to know, and the film-maker's right as an artist.

In a series of case studies from Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the contributors explore relationships between media, power and society in a variety of regional and national contexts, and the effects of globalization.

The first comprehensive study of the international popular music industry. The book examines how the industry is responding to the need to produce global starand discusses the effect of new media technologies.

This text addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society: how much power do the media have? who really controls the media? and what is the relationship between media and power in society.

The first collection of cultural studies essays from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.

A fresh and innovative combination of previously published work and influential new thinking. It is an indispensable aid to the study of journalism and media history.

In an examination of talk shows such as "Kilroy" and "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the authors analyze the "experts," contribution, the conventions of the genre, and the dangers and opportunities of televised public debates.

Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world's most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. But is television entertainment art? Why do so many love it and so many hate or fear it? Does it offer a window to the world, or images of a fake world? This book addresses these questions offering examples.

Three experts in media ethics reexamine ethical behaviour in news gathering and reporting. The book combines a wide range of real-life and hypothetical examples of ethical dilemmas in news reporting with a thoughtful critique of the underlying individualistic theories of mainstream media ethics.

A classic study of the workings of the Hollywood television industry. The reader is taken behind the scenes to see how shows get their air time and how they are shaped by the political and cultural climate of the time.

Focusing on the breakdown of the monopoly control of national communication systems across Europe, this critical analysis surveys the contemporary state of television broadcasting on a country-by-country basis.

Much of this study, which addresses the issue of alternative ways of financing public service broadcasting in the USA and Europe, has been based on the Peacock Committee on Financing the BBC, in which the author was involved.

The theme of McLuhan's book is the distinction between two quite different traditions of reasoning which have grown up in Western and Eastern countries, and how global communications have brought these two traditions into contact.

Suitable for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies, this book challenges the traditional scholarship on various issues such as: comparative political and media systems; theories of democracy, representation and the public sphere; and, political party communication, marketing and elections.

Examines how the attacks of 9/11 continue to transform the nature of journalism, particularly in the United States and Britain. This book brings together a group of scholars and media commentators to explore journalism's present and future, by engaging with issues such as trauma, free speech, censorship, patriotism, impartiality, and celebrity.

This volume explores the relationship between politics, the media and democracy in the United Kingdom, the United States and other contemporary societies.

Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international news coverage of Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore the current state of news coverage of the continent and its people. The book makes a substantial contribution by moving the academic discussion beyond the traditional critiques of journalistic stereotyping, Afro-pessimism, and `dark Africa' news coverage, and by exploring the international power dynamics, and the structures and technologies of global news production which shape and reshape the contemporary media image of Africa.

Ill Effects argues that the question of media influence needs to be debated by those with a clearer understanding of how audiences and media interact with one another.

Ill Effects argues that the question of media influence needs to be debated by those with a clearer understanding of how audiences and media interact with one another.