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The Media in Your Life - Jean Folkerts, Stephen Lacy

The Media in Your Life

An Introduction to Mass Communication, Books a la Carte Edition
Loseblattwerk
512 Seiten
2004 | 3rd edition
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-205-44936-1 (ISBN)
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Explores the social, historical, economic, and technological implications of the media in our culture and how to use the media effectively in our lives.

 

Written by two highly regarded scholars and teachers, this text helps students develop a system-wide view of the interacting social, historical, economic, and technological forces at work in today's rapidly evolving mass media. Too often, mass communication texts rely only on popular publications or on academic research. Folkerts and Lacy believe that all forms of scholarship provide insight into mass communication. In this text, they have combined the concrete practice of journalism with empirical research, enabling students to comprehend the impact of the dynamic media that are an integral part of our lives today.

 

Folkerts and Lacy guide students through today's whirlwind of mass communication by providing them with the information and critical thinking skills necessary to consider objectively the media and its roles in their lives. Students are challenged to look at their own use of the media and to observe patterns they see in media industries, personalities, structures, and market trends in order to become more informed media consumers.

 

This affordable Books à la Carte Edition features the exact same content from our traditional textbook in a convenient, notebook-ready loose-leaf format – allowing students to take only what they need to class. As a bonus, the Books à la Carte Edition is accompanied by a full-color, laminated Study Card that’s a perfect tool to help students prepare for exams.

I. MEDIA PROCESSES AND FUNCTIONS.

1. We the People: Media and Communication.


How Do People Communicate?



Evolution of Mass Media in the United States.



Media System in the United States.



Use and Functions of Media In The Marketplace.



Converging Technologies: Whom Do You Trust on the Internet?



Cultural Impact: Power to the People.



Profile: Marshall McLuhan.

2. Journalism: Information and Society.


Journalism in American Life.



Broadcast Journalism and Changing Styles.



Objectivity and Storytelling.



Today's Market Structure.



Audience Demand in Newspaper Markets.



Supplying the Audience's Demand.



International Journalism.



Trends.



Profile: Edward R. Murrow.



Media Convergence: Covering Politics, Campaign, and Elections.



Global impact: Journalists at Risk.

3. Public Relations.


Public Relations in American Life.



Information and Persuasion.



Internal Public Relations.



Social and Cultural Impact.



Demand for Public Relations.



Supplying the Demand for Public Relations.



Trends.



Profile: Edward Bernays.



Cultural Impact: The Greening of PR.



Media Convergence: Web, Satellite, and Downlinks.



Global Impact: The Disney Song “It's a Small World After All.”

4. Advertising.


Advertising in American Life.



Cultural and Political Impact of Advertising.



Structure of Advertising and Demand.



Supplying the Demand for Advertising.



Trends.



Cultural Impact: Rap and Advertising: Where Culture Goes, Advertising Follows.



Profile: Leo Burnett.



Media Convergence: Tracing You to Sell Ads.

II. MEDIA INDUSTRIES.

5. Books.


Growth of Literary Culture.



Books in American Life.



Today's Market Structure.



Audience Demand in Book Publishing Markets.



Supplying the Audience's Demand.



Trends.



Cultural Impact : How the Critics Review African-American Writers.



Converging Technologies: Multimedia Packages.



Profile: Stephen King.

6. Newspapers.


Newspapers in American Life.



Today's Market Structure.



Audience Demand in Newspaper Markets.



Supplying the Audience's Demand.



Trends.



Media Convergence: Health News on the Internet.



Profile: Nelson Poynter.



Cultural Impact: Commitment Ceremonies in the News.

7. Magazines.


Magazines in American Life.



Today's Market Structure.



Audience Demand in Magazine Markets.



Supplying the Audience's Demand.



Trends.



Cultural Impact: Teen Magazines.



Global Impact: International Distribution of Magazine Content.

8. The Movies.


Film in American Life.



Cultural and Political Development.



Today's Market Structure.



Audience Demand in Movie Markets.



Supplying the Audience's Demand.



Supplying the International Market.



Trends.



Media Convergence: DVD Delivers.



Cultural Impact: Sequels Dominate the Summers.



Global Impact: Where Is Hollywood?



Profile: Jodie Foster.

9. Radio.


Radio in American Life.



Today's Market Structure.



Audience Demand in Radio Markets.



Supplying the Audience's Demand.



International Radio.



Trends.



Global Impact: NPR Heard Around the World.



Cultural Impact: Who Decides What We Hear.



Profile: Garrison Keillor.

10. Television.


Television in American Life.



Today's Market Structure.



Audience Demand in Television Markets.



Supplying the Audience Demand.



Supplying the Advertising Market.



Television and the International Market



Trends.



Media Convergence: We're Digital. Now What?



Cultural Impact: We Are Family: Ozzie and Harriet to Homer and Marge.



Profile: Bill Cosby.

11. Music and the Recording Industry.


Printed and Recorded Music in American Life.



Social and Cultural Impact.



The Recording Industry.



Today's Market Structure.



Audience Demand in Recording Markets.



Supplying the Audience's Demand.



Trends.



Media Convergence: Who Will Control the Music and Make a Profit?



Cultural Impact: MTV: Making Money and Influencing Culture Around the World.



Profile: Janis Joplin.

12. Computers and the Internet Highway.


Computers in American Life.



Computers and Communication.



Today's Market Structure.



Audience Demand in Computer Markets.



Supplying the Audience's Demand.



Trends.



Cultural Impact: Gaming.



Global Impact: Taboo Surfing.

III. MEDIA ISSUES.

13. Ethics.


Ethics in American Life.



Classical Ethics in a Modern Society.



Political and Economic Demand for Ethical Behavior.



Supplying Ethical Standards.



Ethical Situations and Dilemmas.



Trends.



Media Convergence: Tailwind Leaves a Foul Smell.



Cultural Impact: Pass the Couvoisier.



The Ethics of PR and Media.

14. Regulation.


Regulation in American Life.



Types of Media Regulation.



The Threat of Regulation.



Gaining Access to Journalists' Information.



Trends.



Global Impact: Driving Toward Democracy on the Information Highway: Ther Internet and China.



Media Convergence: Regulation in a World Without Boundaries.



Cultural Impact: Teach Your Children Well: Schools and the First Amendment.



Profile: Michael K. Powell.

15. Mass Communication Research: From Content to Effects.


Defining Mass Communication Research.



Mass Communication Research in American Life.



Mass Media Effects: Continuing Issues in Media Effects.



Cultural Studies Today.



Uses of Media.



Influences on Content.



Ideology.



Trends.



Media Convergence: Measuring Media Use.



Cultural Impact: The War on Terrorism and Research.



Profile: Wilbur Schramm.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 12.8.2004
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 1016 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-205-44936-0 / 0205449360
ISBN-13 978-0-205-44936-1 / 9780205449361
Zustand Neuware
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