Media studies: a reader

Pt. 1. Studying the Media

Sect. 1. Media and Social Power

1. Mass Communication, Popular Taste and Organized Social Action / Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton

2. Culture Industry Reconsidered / Theodor W. Adorno

3. Medium is the Message / Marshall McLuhan

4. "Mass Communication" and "Minority Culture" / Raymond Williams

5. Encoding/Decoding / Stuart Hall

6. Power of the Image / Annette Kuhn

7. Constituents of a Theory of the Media / Hans Magnus Enzensberger

8. Public Sphere / Jurgen Habermas

9. Masses: The Implosion of the Social in the Media / Jean Baudrillard

Sect. 2. Production

10. Public Service Broadcasting: The History of a Concept / Paddy Scannell

11. On the Cultural Industries / Nicholas Garnham

12. Concentration and Ownership in the Era of Privatization / Graham Murdock

13. Producers in British Television / Jeremy Tunstall

14. New Patterns in Global Television / John Sinclair, Elizabeth Jacka and Stuart Cunningham

Sect. 3. Text

15. Content Analysis in Communication Research / Bernard Berelson

16. Radio Signs / Andrew Crisell

17. Codes of Television / John Fiske

18. Programming as Sequence or Flow / Raymond Williams

19. Broadcast TV Narration / John Ellis

20. Role of Stereotypes / Richard Dyer

21. Perform, Educate, Entertain: Ingredients of the Cookery Programme Genre / Niki Strange

22. Racist Ideologies and the Media / Stuart Hall

23. Fictions and Ideologies: The Case of Situation Comedy / Janet Woollacott

24. Televised Chat and the Synthetic Personality / Andrew Tolson

25. Critical Analysis of Media Discourse / Norman Fairclough

26. Survival Skills and Daydreams / Janice Winship

27. Cagney & Lacey: Feminist Strategies of Detection / Danae Clark

28. Empowering Women? The Oprah Winfrey Show / Corinne Squire

29. Television and Postmodernism / Jim Collins

30. Postmodernism and Popular Culture / Angela McRobbie

31. Reality TV and Social Perversion / Bill Nichols

32. Critical and Textual Hypermasculinity / Lynne Joyrich

Sect. 4. Reception

33. Desensitization, Violence and the Media / Hans Eysenck and D. K. B. Nias

34. On the Social Effects of Television / James D. Halloran

35. Television Audience: A Revised Perspective / Denis McQuail, Jay G. Blumler and J. R. Brown

36. Uses and Gratifications Research: A Critique / Philip Elliott

37. Cultural Transformations: The Politics of Resistance / David Morley

38. Wanted: Audiences. On the Politics of Empirical Audience Studies / Ien Ang

39. Reading the Romance / Janice Radway

40. Young and the Restless in Trinidad: A Case of the Local and the Global in Mass Consumption / Daniel Miller

41. Behind Closed Doors: Video Recorders in the Home / Ann Gray

42. Moments of Television: Neither the Text nor the Audience / John Fiske

43. "Strangers No More, We Sing": Filking and the Social Construction of the Science Fiction Fan Community / Henry Jenkins

44. Media, Meaning and Everyday Life / Joke Hermes

Pt. 2. Case Studies

Sect. 5. Soap Opera

45. EastEnders: Creating the Audience / David Buckingham

46. Search for Tomorrow in Today's Soap Operas / Tania Modleski

47. Crossroads: Notes on Soap Opera / Charlotte Brunsdon

48. Everything Stops for Crossroads: Watching with the Audience / Dorothy Hobson

49. Sylvania Waters and the Spectacular Exploding Family / Jon Stratton and Ien Ang

Sect. 6. News

50. News Values and News Production / Peter Golding and Philip Elliott

51. Social Production of News / Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher and Tony Jefferson / [et al.]

52. Home Help for Populist Politics: Relational Aspects of TV News / John Hartley

53. Woman as Sign as Television News / Lana F. Rakow and Kimberlie Kranich

54. Globalization of Electronic Journalism / Michael Gurevitch

55. News Content and Audience Belief / Greg Philo

Sect. 7. Advertising

56. Advertising: The Magic System / Raymond Williams

57. Impact of Advertising on the British Mass Media / James Curran

58. Advertising, Magazine Culture, and the "New Man" / Sean Nixon

59. Handling Sex / Janice Winship

60. Soft-Soaping Empire: Commodity Racism and Imperial Advertising / Anne McClintock

61. Discriminating or Duped? Young People as Consumers of Advertising/Art / Mica Nava and Orson Nava

Sect. 8. New Media

62. How Are Media Born? / Brian Winston

63. Worldwide Wedge: Division and Contradiction in the Global Information Infrastructure / Peter Golding

64. New Technologies and Domestic Consumption / Eric Hirsch

65. On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations / Sadie Plant.