News and News Sources: A Critical Introduction
Book Details
Author(s)Paul Manning
PublisherSAGE Publications Ltd
ISBN / ASIN0761957979
ISBN-139780761957973
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Sales Rank4,341,051
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
News and News Sources offers a fresh introduction to the sociology of news.
News and News Sources: reviews new research in the rapidly expanding field of political communication, drawing upon material from Britain, Europe and the USA; provides a clear introduction to the processes of news production and the implications of the rise in global electronic news communication; and assesses the various theoretical frameworks available for analysing these developments including fuctionalism, pluralism, Marxism, political economy, hegemony theory, discourse theory and postmodernism.






