Reading Media Theory : Thinkers, Approaches and Contexts
Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: 1 Introduction Part One - Reading Theory 2 What is Theory? 3 What is Reading? Part Two - Key Thinkers and Schools of Thought 4 Liberal press theory Reading: Mill, J. S. (1997 [1859]) 'Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion' 5 Chicago school Reading: Park, R. E. (1967) 'The Natural History of the Newspaper' 6 Walter Lippmann Reading: Lippmann, W. (1965) 'News, Truth and a Conclusion' 7 F. R. Leavis Reading: Leavis, F. R. (1930) Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture 8 Marxism Reading: Miliband, R. (1973) The State in Capitalist Society: The Analysis of the Western System of Power 9 Frankfurt school Reading: Horkheimer, M. and Adorno, T. W. (2002 [1944]) Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments 10 Harold Lasswell Reading: Lasswell, H. D. (1948) 'The Structure and Function of Communication in Society' 11 Columbia school Reading: Lazarsfeld, P. F. and Merton, R. K. (1948) 'Mass Communication, Popular Taste and Organized Social Action' 12 C. Wright Mills Reading: Mills, C. W. (1956) 'The Mass Society' 13 Toronto school Reading: Innis, H. A. (1951) The Bias of Communication 14 Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Reading: Hall, S. (1980c) 'Encoding / Decoding' Part Three Approaches to Media Theory 15 Political economy Reading: Herman, E.S. (1995) 'Media in the US Political Economy' 16 Public sphere Reading: Habermas, J. (1974 [1964]) 'The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article' 17 The effects tradition Reading: Gauntlett, D. (2005) 'Ten Things Wrong with the Media 'Effects Model' 18 Structuralism Reading: Todorov, T. (1990 [1978]) Genres in Discourse 19 Cultural theory Reading: Williams, R. (1961) The Long Revolution 20 Feminist media theory Reading: van Zoonen, L. (1994) Feminist Media Studies 21 Postmodernism Reading: Baudrillard, J. (1994 [1981]) 'The Implosion of Meaning in the Media' 22 The information society Reading: Webster, F. (2002) Theories of the Information Society Part Four Media Theory in Context 23 Production Reading: Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) The Cultural Industries 24 Texts Reading: Barthes, R. (1977 [1967]) 'The Death of the Author' 25 Audiences Reading: Ang, I. (1991) 'Chapter 2: Audience-as-Market and Audience-as-Public' 26 Bibliography
Authors: Brett Mills, David M. Barlow
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W607879221