ABSTRACT
Message Received brings together the most recent research findings of the Glasgow Media Group. It focuses on major public issues such as the impact of fictional violence on children and media coverage of ethnic minorities, the developing world and disasters. It examines media representations of mental illness and public understanding of risks about this and about other areas such as health and food safety. The Group has also studied controversies in the media such as the BSE crisis and other major events such as the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|1 pages
Media effects and audience reception
part 2|1 pages
Violence, mental illness and suicide
part 3|1 pages
Risk, health and food scares in the media
part 4|1 pages
Race, migration and media
part 5|1 pages
International development, disasters and crisis reporting
part 6|1 pages
Critical media studies and critical journalism