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^ MASS MEDIA 3T 0* and ( SOCIETY in 4tB Ir^f<ci» EDITED BY JAMES CURRAN ft AND MICHAEL GUREVITCH * Mass Media and Society Mass Media and Society Edited by James Curran and Michael Gurevitch Edward Arnold A division ofHodder& Stoughton LONDON NEWYORK MELBOURNE AUCKLAND Introduction, Selectionsand Editorial Matter © 1991 JamesCurran and Michael Gurevitch © Chapter Peter Goldingand Graham Murdock 1 © Chapter2 Liesbet van Zoonen © Chapter3 John Fiske © Chapter4 JamesCurran © Chapter5©Denis McQuail Chapter6 Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi © Chapter7 Michael Schudson © Chapter8 JosephTurow © Chapter9 Michael Gurevitch Chapter 10©JayG Blumler Chapter 11 ©Judith Lichtenberg Chapter 12©Jack M McLeod, Gerald M Kosicki and Zhongdang Pan © Chapter 13 John Corner © M Chapter 14 Sonia Livingstone Chapter 15©Ien AngandJoke Hermes © Chapter 16 Todd Gitlin First published in Great Britain 1991 Reprinted 1992 Distributed in the USA by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc. 29West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 British Library Cataloguingin Publication Data Massmedia and society. I. Curran, James II. Gurevitch, Michael 302.23 ISBN0-340-55947-0 ISBN0-340-51759-Xpbk LibraryofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Massmedia and society/edited byJamesCurran and Michael Gurevitch. p. cm. Includesbibliographical referencesand index. ISBN0-340-55947-0 $59.95.—ISBN 0-340-51759-X : (pbk.) : $19.95 — — 1. Mass media Social aspects. 2. Mass-media Political aspects. I. Curran, James. II. Gurevitch, Michael. HM258.M26578 1992 91-23441 302.23—dc20 CIP All rightsreserved. Nopartofthispublication may be reproduced ortransmittedin anyform orby any means, electronicallyor mechanically, includingphotocopying, recordingoranyinformation storage or retrieval system, without eitherpriorpermission in writingfrom the publisherora licence permittingrestrictedcopying. In the United Kingdom such licencesare issued bythe Copyright LicensingAgency: 90Tottenham Court Road, London W1P9HE Typeset in 10/1lptTimes by Rowland Photosetting Limited, BurySt Edmunds, Suffolk Printed andbound in Great Britain forEdward Arnold, adivision ofHodderand Stoughton Limited, Mill Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks, KentTN132YA by Biddies Limited, Guildford and King's Lynn Contents List ofcontributors 5 Introduction 7 Section I: Mass Media and Society: General Perspectives 13 1. Culture, Communications, and Political Economy 15 Peter Golding and Graham Murdock 2. Feminist Perspectives on the Media 33 Liesbet van Zoonen 3. Postmodernism and Television 55 John Fiske 4. Mass Media in the Public Interest: Towards a Framework of Norms for Media Performance 68 Denis McQuail A 5. Mass Media and Democracy: Reappraisal 82 James Curran 6. The Global and the Local in International Communications 118 Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi Section II: Media Production 139 7. The Sociology ofNews Production Revisited 141 Michael Schudson 8. A Mass Communication Perspective on Entertainment Industries 160 Joseph Turow 9. The Globalization of Electronic Journalism 178 Michael Gurevitch 10. The New Television Marketplace: Imperatives, Implications, Issues 194 Jay G. Blumler 11. In Defense of Objectivity 216 Judith Lichtenberg Section III: Mediation ofCultural Meanings 233 12. On Understanding and Misunderstanding Media Effects 235 Jack M. McLeod, Gerald M. Kosicki and Zhongdang Pan 13. Meaning, Genre and Context: the Problematics of 'Public Knowledge' in the New Audience Studies 267 John Corner 14. Audience Reception: the Role of the Viewer in Retelling Romantic Drama 285 Sonia M. Livingstone 15. Gender and/in Media Consumption 307 Ien Ang and Joke Hermes 16. The Politics of Communication and the Communication of Politics 329 Todd Gitlin Index 343 List of contributors Ien Ang. Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies (Murdoch University, Australia) Jay G. Blumler. Emeritus Professor (University of Leeds), Professor of Journalism(UniversityofMaryland) John Corner. Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies (Centre for CommunicationStudies. UniversityofLiverpool) James Curran. Professor of Communications (Goldsmiths' College, Univer- sity of London) John Fiske. Professor of Communication (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Todd Gitlin. Professor of Sociology (University of California, Berkeley) Peter Golding. Professor of Sociology (University of Loughborough) Michael Gurevitch. Professor. College ofJournalism (UniversityofMaryland) Joke Hermes. Research Student (University of Amsterdam) Gerald Kosicki, Assistant Professor ofJournalism (Ohio State University) Judith Lichtenberg. Associate Professor (University of Maryland) Sonia M. Livingstone. Lecturer in Psychology (London School of Economics, University of London) Jack McLeod. Maier-Bascom Professor of Journalism (University of Wisconsin-Madison) DenisMcQuail. ProfessorofMassCommunication (UniversityofAmsterdam) Graham Murdock, Reader in Sociology (University of Loughborough) Zhongdang Pan, Assistant Professor of Communication (Cornell University) Michael Schudson, ProfessorofCommunication (UniversityofCalifornia, San Diego) Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi. Professor of Communication (University of Leicester) Joseph Turow. Professor of Communication (University of Pennsylvania) Liesbet van Zoonen. Lecturer in Communication (University of Amsterdam) 5 Acknowledgements The publishers would like to thank the following for permission to include copyright material: The Central Statistical Office for Table 1 from Family Expenditure Survey, 1989, reproduced with permission of the Controller of HMSO; the UNESCO Press for Tables 6.1 and 6.3 from World Communication Report, © UNESCO, 1989 and for Table 6.2 from UNESCO Statistical Yearbook, © UNESCO, 1989; Pergamon Press pic for permission to reproduce material from Making Sense ofTelevision: The Psychology ofAudience M Interpretation by S Livingstone, Copyright ©, 1990, Pergamon Press pic. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders of material reproduced in this book. Any rights not acknowledged here will be acknowledged in subsequent printings if notice is given to the publisher.