Arguing for a general framework for mass media scholarship [[electronic resource] /] / W. James Potter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480346603321
• Autore: Potter W. James
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : SAGE, 2009
• ISBN: 1-4129-6471-7; 1-4833-2986-0; 1-4416-5524-7; 1-4522-1589-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (417 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23; 302.23072
• Soggetti: Mass media - Research - History; Mass media - Research - Methodology; 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 (p. 326-366) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Brief Contents; Detailed Contents; Preface; Part I - Introduction; Chapter 1 - Why Do We Need a General Framework?; Chapter 2 - Introduction to the General Framework; Part II - Explaining the Media Organizations Facet; Chapter 3 - Mass Media Organizations Line of Thinking; Chapter 4 - Business Strategies; Chapter 5 - Marketing Strategies; Chapter 6 - Employment Strategies; Part III - Explaining the Media Audiences Facet; Chapter 7 - Media Audience Line of Thinking; Chapter 8 - Audience Cognitive Algorithms; Chapter 9 - Audience: Filtering Media Messages; Chapter 10 - Audience: Meaning MatchingChapter 11 - Audience: Meaning Construction; Part IV - Explaining the Media Messages Facet; Chapter 12 - Media Message Line of Thinking; Chapter 13 - Message Formulas and Conventions-General; Chapter 14 - Message Formulas and Conventions by Genre; Chapter 15 - Critique of Media Message Scholarship; Part V - Explaining the Media Effects Facet; Chapter 16 - Media Effects Line of Thinking; Chapter 17 - Conceptualizing Media Influence and Media Effects; Chapter 18 - Designing Media Effects ; Studies; Part VI - Conclusion; Chapter 19 - Integration of ExplanationsReferences; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: In this work, media scholar and author W. James Potter challenges media scholars and students to change the way they think about the media. He provides structure to mass media scholarship that is focused on the most useful ideas in the phenomenon of the mass media, not lines of research.

The constitution and contestation of Darhad Shaman's power in contemporary Mongolia [[electronic resource] /] / by Judith Hangartner

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790222003321
• Autore: Hangartner Judith
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Folkestone, UK, : Global Oriental, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-85222-5; 90-04-21274-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• Collana: Inner Asia series ; ; . 5
• Disciplina: 201.44
• Soggetti: Shamanism - Mongolia; Shamans - Mongolia - Social conditions
• 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. [335]-355) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Power of the Margins -- Chapter 2: Intruding into People’s Lives -- Chapter 3: Exploring Inspirational Ontologies -- Chapter 4: Topographies of Affliction in Postsocialism -- Chapter 5: Performance of Inspirational Power -- Chapter 6: Legitimization by Illness and Ancestor Shamans -- Chapter 7: The shamans’ Economy of Reputation -- Chapter 8: Imaginations of Powerful Shamans -- Chapter 9: Beyond Power and Authenticity -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book offers an in-depth insight into post-socialist rural shamans in Mongolia thereby making a rare but important contribution to the ethnography of both Inner Asia and Southern Siberia. It examines the ; social making of shamans, in particular those of the Shishget depression of the northernmost borders of Mongolia. By analysing practices, discourses and performances in local and national arenas, the author traces the social constitution of the shamans’ inspirational power, examines the shamans’ performance of power during the seance, discusses the economy of reputation of successful shamans and scrutinizes their legitimizing practices. The study will be welcomed by students of social/cultural anthropology and religious studies with a particular interest in shamanism or ritual studies.