With its unusual breadth and depth, this book is the harvest of a lifetime of thinking about the arts and media in New Zealand by someone with 'a knowledge' (says Murray Edmond) 'that combines industry practice with academic insight in a way that is unrivalled in New Zealand.'The book reflects on th
Re-Inventing the Media
β Scribed by Graeme Turner
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 159
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Re-inventing the media
The decline of the mass media paradigm
The media and the state
The consequences of celebrity culture
Notes
Part I: Rethinking the media
1. Rethinking media theory
Convergence
Mediatisation
Commercialisation, the public good and media power
Notes
2. Entertainment, information and the βculture of searchβ
News, entertainment and the public good
The commodification of information and the βculture of searchβ
Conclusion
Notes
Part II: The media and the nation-state
3. The media, the nation and globalisation
Television and the nation-state
Globalisation, the media and modernity
Conclusion
Notes
4. Rethinking media regulation
Privacy, journalism and the public interest
The media and democracy
Conclusion
Notes
Part III: The consequences of celebrity
5. The celebrification of the media
Producing βcelebrity newsβ
The rise of the image
Gossip as news
Conclusion
Notes
6. Intervening in the social: The function of celebrity culture
The ordinary celebrity
Reacting to reality TV
Celebrity, status and a presence online
Conclusion
Notes
Conclusion: Teaching the re-invented media
The re-invented media: what has it become?
TV studies, new media studies and the divided curriculum
Unifying the divided curriculum
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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