Essentials of Mass Communication Theory

الغلاف الأمامي
SAGE, 05‏/07‏/1995 - 208 من الصفحات

This comprehensive resource on mass communication theory is structured around the key conceptual areas of text, audience, media, production and society. Using illustrations from popular genres - particularly film and television - Arthur Asa Berger combines his broad knowledge of the mass communications field with his unique ability to translate difficult theories and models into comprehensible terms and accessible language. He concludes with suggestions for further work and discussion plus an up-to-date bibliography, making this an excellent introduction for students of communication.

 

المحتوى

Communication
10
The OsgoodSchramm Circular Model
16
Are Media Effects Weak or Powerful?
22
The Artwork or Text
27
A Semiotic Interpretation of Rashomon
33
A MythRitualSymbol Interpretation of Rashomon
39
Understanding Genres
45
53
72
The Problem of Aberrant Decoding
105
Audience Segmentation by Marketers
111
AmericaSociety
117
Emancipatory and Domination Theories of
131
Postmodernism and Mass Communication
139
The Artist
145
Appendix
165
Suggested Further Reading
182

The Neglected Matter of Media Aesthetics
80
The Audience
87

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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة

نبذة عن المؤلف (1995)

Arthur Asa Berger is Professor Emeritus of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University, where he taught between 1965 and 2003. He has published more than 100 articles, numerous book reviews, and more than 60 books. Among his latest books are the third edition of Media and Communication Research Methods: An Introduction to Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches (2013), The Academic Writer’s Toolkit: A User’s Manual (2008), What Objects Mean: An Introduction to Material Culture (2009), Bali Tourism (2013), Tourism in Japan: An Ethno-Semiotic Analysis (2010), The Culture Theorist’s Book of Quotations (2010), and The Objects of Our Affection: Semiotics and Consumer Culture (2010). He has also written a number of academic mysteries such as Durkheim is Dead: Sherlock Holmes is Introduced to Sociological Theory (2003) and Mistake in Identity: A Cultural Studies Murder Mystery (2005). His books have been translated into eight languages and thirteen of his books have been translated into Chinese.

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