Principles of Accounting or Media Organisations in Society

Principles of Accounting

Author: Belverd E Needles

Includes sections on Reviewing the Chapter, Testing Your Knowledge, and Applying Your Knowledge.

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Media Organisations in Society

Author: James Curran

This widescreen approach to the study of media organizations in society combines a survey of current research with original case studies, providing an in-depth understanding of media industries and the processes of cultural production.

Table of Contents:

	Contributors
	Introduction	9
Pt. I	Overview
1	Media organisations in society: central issues	19
Pt. II	Media as Industry
2	Spectacle, synergy and megamusicals: the global-industrialisation of the live-entertainment economy	69
3	The political economy of the Internet	84
4	Alternative media, alternative texts? Rethinking democratisation in the cultural industries	107
5	Broadcasting deregulation in Turkey: uniformity within diversity	126
Pt. III	Media as Battlefield
6	The killing of Brazilian street children and the rise of the international public sphere	151
7	Public-relations campaigning and news production: the case of 'new unionism' in Britain	173
8	Mainstreaming the margins: the transformation of Marxism Today	193
Pt. IV	Media as Cultural Product
9	Literary editors, social networks and cultural tradition	215
10	Music divisions: the recording industry and the social mediation of cultural production	240
11	Media, cultural identity and the state: the case of Hong Kong	255
12	Media organisations and non-media people	273
	Index	289