The Contradictions of Media Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Contradictions of Media Power write by Des Freedman. This book was released on 2014-09-25. The Contradictions of Media Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Media power is a crucial, although often taken for granted, concept. We assume, for example, that the media are 'powerful'; if they were not, why would there be so many controversies over the regulation, control and impact of communicative institutions and processes? Further, we assume that this 'power' is somehow problematic; audiences are often treated as highly susceptible to media influence and too much 'power' in the hands of one organization or individual is seen as risky and potentially dangerous. These concerns have been at the heart of recent controversies involving the relationships between media moguls and political elites, the consequences of phone hacking in the UK, and the emerging influence of social media as vital gatekeepers. Yet it is still not clear what we mean by media power or how effective it is. This book evaluates contrasting definitions of media power and looks at the key sites in which power is negotiated, concentrated and resisted - politically, technologically and economically. Combining an evaluation of both previous literature and new research, the book seeks to establish an understanding of media power which does justice to the complexities and contradictions of the contemporary social world. It will be important reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers and activists alike.
Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change
Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change write by Ilija Tomanić Trivundža. This book was released on 2018-10-19. Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book aims to feed into the critical debates about media, power and change through the respectful inclusion of a wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. This diversity is simultaneously structured and balanced by a deeply shared set of concerns, that are mobilised to defend core societal values including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and humanity. Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change raises questions about how the omnipresent media can contribute to the materialisation of these core values, and how it sometimes works against them. Rethinking social change, mediatisation and regulations are thus significant issues – explicitly addressed in this book. In addition the authors show how the role of the critical media and communication scholar merits and requires (self-)reflection; critical voices matter, but they also face structural limitations. This book was originally published as two special issues of Javnost – The Public.
The Umbrella of U.S. Power
The Umbrella of U.S. Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Umbrella of U.S. Power write by Noam Chomsky. This book was released on 2011-01-04. The Umbrella of U.S. Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chomsky observes the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a "Path to a Better World," while chronicling how far off the trail the United States is with respect to actual political practice and conduct. Analysing the contradictions of U.S. power while illustrating the real progress won by sustained popular struggle, Chomsky cuts through official political rhetoric to examine how the United States not only violates the UD, but at times uses it as a weapon to wield against designated enemies.
Man of Contradictions: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special
Man of Contradictions: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Man of Contradictions: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special write by Ben Bland. This book was released on 2020-09-01. Man of Contradictions: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From a riverside shack to the presidential palace, Joko Widodo surged to the top of Indonesian politics on a wave of hope for change. However, six years into his presidency, the former furniture maker is struggling to deliver the reforms that Indonesia desperately needs. Despite promising to build Indonesia into an Asian powerhouse, Jokowi, as he is known, has faltered in the face of crises, from COVID-19 to an Islamist mass movement. Man of Contradictions, the first English-language biography of Jokowi, argues that the president embodies the fundamental contradictions of modern Indonesia. He is caught between democracy and authoritarianism, openness and protectionism, Islam and pluralism. Jokowi’s incredible story shows what is possible in Indonesia – and it also shows the limits.
Television Culture and Women's Lives
Television Culture and Women's Lives - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Television Culture and Women's Lives write by Margaret J. Heide. This book was released on 1995-02. Television Culture and Women's Lives available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contemporary cultural theory, feminist criticism, and ethnography converge in this provocative study of the construction of meaning in mass culture. Television Culture and Women's Lives explores the complex relationship between the gender conflicts played out in the scripts of the popular television show thirtysomething and the real-life conflicts experienced by "baby-boomer" women viewers. Women viewers often reinterpreted the program's conservative view on gender roles, seeing it instead as a protest against real dilemmas women face as they try to integrate career and family priorities. Heide's study confirms women viewers' close identifications with thirtysomething characters and positions audience responses against the backdrop of changes in the lives of women in the 1980s and 1990s. Television Culture and Women's Lives accessibly treats fascinating issues related to cultural criticism, the relationship between mass media, and audiences, and the struggles faced by women in late twentieth-century America.
