Myths for the Masses: An Essay on Mass Communication - Brossura

Hardt, Hanno

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ISBN 10: 0631236228 ISBN 13: 9780631236221

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2004

Riassunto

With a lively and engaging style, Myths for the Masses provides a critical, interdisciplinary, and historically informed statement about communication in contemporary life.

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• Written by Hanno Hardt, one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject.
  
• Offers a comprehensive appraisal of mass communication.
  
• Provides a critical perspective on media and communication in society.
  
• Contains critical insights into the state of mass communication, democracy, and the construction of the self in society.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Hanno Hardt is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa. He is the author of many scholarly journal articles and of books such as Social Theories of the Press: Early German and American Perspectives (1979, second edition 2001), Critical Communication Studies: Communication, History & Theory in America, (1992), and Interactions: Critical Studies in Communication, Media, and Journalism (l998).

Dalla quarta di copertina

With a lively and engaging style, Myths for the Masses provides a critical, interdisciplinary, and historically informed statement about the rise of mass communication in Western societies, and its impact on contemporary life. Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject, this book ponders the dominant and the detrimental effects of the mass-produced message in an age overrun by telecommunications and consumerism, and examines its detrimental effects.

Hanno Hardt convincingly argues that the active presence of media organizations rather than the collective will of the people, forms and re-forms the social, cultural, economic and political landscapes of society. The book exposes mass communication to a close examination of many of its real or assumed functions in a modern world, and re-evaluates its traditional role as a bastion of democracy and a celebrant of mass society.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0631236228
• ISBN 13: 9780631236221
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 153
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile