Taking a unique approach to the study of mass communication and cultural studies, MediaMaking is a volume that presents the current knowledge about the relationship between media, culture, and society. What sets this volume apart from competing texts is the approach taken and the distinguished scholarship. Rather than examining each major medium separately (newspapers, books, magazines, radio, television, film), the authors contend that mass communication cannot be studied apart from the other institutions in society and the other dimensions of social life-each is shaping and defining the other. They hold that media can only be understood in relation to their context-institutional, economic, social, cultural, and historical. As such, this book explores the variety of ways in which the media are involved in our social lives. The authors explore the different relationships between the media and the systems of social value and social differences that organize power in contemporary society. They examine how the media are reproduced and consumed and what they produce in turn. Theoretically and analytically organized with sections on media′s relation to behavior, politics, media effects, the public, globalization, organizations, meaning , and ideology, this text offers students a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of media communication processes-an absolutely necessary part of understanding contemporary life.

With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications, the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience, and share the everyday is changing. This collection reflects on emergent creative practices and digital ethnographies of new socialities associated with smartphone cameras in everyday life.

Scientific Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Sociology - Social System and Social Structure, grade: 87%, Ottawa University, course: CRM3317 - Crime and Media, language: English, abstract: Through extensive research, this paper concludes that often times it is not the details of the crime that determine whether a story will receive news coverage, rather, it is the woman’s age, race, nationality, class, or even appearance, that determines it; and that furthermore, this portrayal of women in the media is detrimental for women in society.

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Law - Media, Multimedia Law, Copyright, grade: 1,2, University of New South Wales, Sydney, language: English, abstract: The Schapelle case and its legal context as well as the related media coverage are a complex and wide field. The focus of this essay is set on ethical media responsibility and personalized reporting. The leading question is if the coverage of the Schapelle Corby case in Australia and Indonesia was ethical, and if the specific coverage might have effected the sentence.

Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Max Frankel characterized Unsecular Media as a book that "leaves you thinking about the saintly role that religion has acquired in our allegedly irreligious media." Mark Silk's book is the first to offer a comprehensive description and analysis of how American news media cover religion.

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