Table of Contents

PART I: INTRODUCTORY PERSPECTIVES: CULTURE, HISTORY, TECHNOLOGY
Culture and Communication - Alan O′Connor and John Downing
Forms of Media as Ways of Knowing - Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi
Mediating Communication - Joshua Meyrowitz
What Happens?
How Are Media Born and Developed? - Brian Winston
PART II: MEDIA, POWER AND CONTROL
Media in the US Political Economy - Edward Herman
Mass Media and the US Presidency - Cedric J Robinson
The Tug-of-War over the First Amendment - Donna A Demac and John Downing
Control Mechanisms of National News Making - América Rodríguez
Britain, Canada, Mexico and the United States
Western European Media - Denis McQuail
The Mixed Model under Threat
Media in Multicultural Nations - Andrew Jakubowicz
Some Comparisons
Media, Dictatorship and the Reemergence of `Civil Society′ - John Downing
PART III: AUDIENCES AND USERS
The Nature of the Audience - Ien Ang
Tracking the Audience - Oscar H Gandy Jr
Personal Information and Privacy
Alternative Media and the Boston Tea Party - John Downing
PART IV: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Computers and Communication - Nikhil Sinha and Allucquére Rosanne Stone
New Communication Technologies and Deregulation - Donna A Demac with Liching Sung
Information Imbalance across the Globe - Cees J Hamelink
PART V: MASS MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
Gender, Representation and the Media - Liesbet van Zoonen
Advertising and Consumer Culture - Douglas Kellner
Racism and the American Way of Media - Ash Corea
Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Identity - Ali Mohammadi
Popular Music - Keith Negus
Between Celebration and Despair
Cinema and Communication - Mary Desjardins
AIDS News and News Cultures - Kevin Williams and David Miller
Global News Media Cover the World - Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi
Myths in and about Television - Sari Thomas
Entertainers and Economics
Sport and the Spectacle - Michael Real

About the Author

John Downing is Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the Univeristy of Texas, Austin. He is a co-editor of Questioning the Media (1990) and has contributed to the journals Media, Culture & Society and Discourse & Society Dr Ali Mohammadi is Reader in the Department of English and Media Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He is co-author with Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi, of Small Media, Big Revolution: Communication and Culture and The Iranian Revolution (1994). He is also co-editor of Questioning the Media (1994)


CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE





Oliver Boyd-Barrett University of Leicester


Cees Hamelink University of Amsterdam


Ralph Negrine University of Leicester


John Tomlinson Nottingham Trent University