1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458226403321

Autore

Aldridge Meryl

Titolo

Understanding the local media [[electronic resource] /] / Meryl Aldridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Maidenhead, : Open University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-12897-X

9786611128975

0-335-22945-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

302.230941

Soggetti

Local mass media - Great Britain

Mass media - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Why local media matter; Chapter 2 Regional and local newspapers: just another retailer?; Chapter 3 Imagining the community; Chapter 4 Local broadcasting: what price public service?; Chapter 5 Must broadcast regional news be anodyne?; Chapter 6 A delicate balance: media in the nations of the UK; Chapter 7 Working in local media: from smoke-filled rooms to sweatshops; Chapter 8 What is the future for local media?; References; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

How will local media deal with the challenge of the Internet? This work explains how regional newspapers and broadcast news are owned, regulated and organized; how these factors produce the outputs we see and hear; what we know of audiences' attitude to them; and discusses local media as places of work.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778561703321

Titolo

The miseducation of the West [[electronic resource] ] : how schools and the media distort our understanding of the Islamic world / / edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn., : Praeger, 2004

ISBN

1-282-40886-0

9786612408861

0-313-05775-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Reverberations : cultural studies and education

Altri autori (Persone)

KincheloeJoe L

SteinbergShirley R. <1952->

Disciplina

070.4/4990909767

Soggetti

International education - United States

Multicultural education - United States

Islam - Public opinion

Public opinion - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 September 11, Terror War, and Blowback; 3 Loving Muslim Women with a Vengeance: The West, Women, and Fundamentalism; 4 Iran and American Miseducation: Cover-Ups, Distortions, and Omissions; 5 Consequences of Perceived Ethnic Identities; 6 The United States and Israel: Double Standards, Favoritism, and Unconditional Support; 7 The Great European Denial: The Misrepresentation of the Moors in Western Education; 8 Schooled to Order: Education and the Making of Modern Egypt

9 The New Bogeyman under the Bed: Image Formation of Islam in the Western School Curriculum and Media10 Desert Minstrels: Hollywood's Curriculum of Arabs and Muslims; Notes; Index; About the Editors and the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The Miseducation of the West examines the ways in which educational institutions such as media and schools have shaped Western views of Islam. The nature of these messages tells readers as much, if not more, about Western self-images as they do about Islam and Islamic peoples.



Quickly emerging is a Western perspective on the other. Westerners found easy justification for the colonial conquest of many Islamic lands. In the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries England, France, and to a lesser extent Russia colonized much of the Mulsim world with the United States entering the picture after World