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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791708503321

Autore

Potter W. James

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, 2009

ISBN

1-4522-7872-5

1-4129-6471-7

1-4833-2986-0

1-4416-5524-7

1-4522-1589-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 394 p.)

Disciplina

302.23072

Soggetti

Mass media - Research - History

Mass media - Research - Methodology

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.