Table of Contents

I. Media/Society
1. Media and the Social World
II. Production: The Media Industry and the Social World
2. The Economics of the Media Industry
3. Political Influence on Media
4. Media Organizations and Professionals
III. Content: Media Representations of the Social World
5. Media and Ideology
6. Social Inequality and Media Representation
IV. Audiences: Meaning and Influence
7. Media Influence and the Political World
8. Active Audiences and the Construction of Meaning
9. Media Technology and Social Change
V. Globalization and the Future
10. Media in a Changing Global Culture

About the Author

David Croteau taught about the sociology of media as an Associate Professor (retired) in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is the author of Politics and the Class Divide: Working People and the Middle-Class Left and co-author, with William Hoynes, of Experience Sociology.

William Hoynes is Professor of Sociology and former Director of the Media Studies Program at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he teaches courses on media, culture, and social theory. He is the author of Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market, and the Public Sphere and co-author, with David Croteau, of Experience Sociology.