Culture, Society and the Media

Table of contents

1. Front Cover
2. Half Title
3. Title Page
4. Copyright
5. Contents
6. Acknowledgements
7. Preface
8. I CLASS, IDEOLOGY AND THE MEDIA
   1. Introduction
   2. 1 The study of the media: theoretical approaches
   3. 2 Theories of the media, theories of society
   4. 3 The rediscovery of ‘ideology’: return of the repressed in media studies
   5. 4 Messages and meanings
9. II MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS
   1. Introduction
   2. 5 Large corporations and the control of the communications industries
   3. 6 Negotiation of control in media organizations and occupations
   4. 7 Cultural dependency and the mass media
10. III THE POWER OF THE MEDIA
    1. Introduction
    2. 8 Communications, power and social order
    3. 9 The political effects of mass communication
    4. 10 How the media report race
    5. 11 Media, ‘reality’, signification
11. Index