ABSTRACT
This book is part advanced textbook and part critical engagement with the dominant paradigms employed in studies of media and power. In textbook terms its ten chapters cover a broad range of common media and communication topics that might be included in a one term course. These include: policy and regulation; media production; elite media management and media-source relations; culture, ideology/discourse and power; mediated politics and political communication; new and alternative media; interest groups, civil society and mediated mobilisation; media audiences and effects. Each chapter presents some of the key literature, debates and challenges on the topic, followed by new case study material.
