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Mass Media

Mass Media. Overview for the year. The relationship between ownership and control of the mass media. • Private and state ownership; public service broadcasting; recent trends in ownership and control both in the UK and globally ( eg concentration of ownership; global conglomerates)

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Mass Media

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  1. Mass Media Overview for the year.

  2. The relationship between ownership and control of the mass media • Private and state ownership; public service broadcasting; recent trends in ownership and control both in the UK and globally (eg concentration of ownership; global conglomerates) • Traditional Marxist, neo-Marxist and pluralist theories of ownership and control • The ideological role of the media.

  3. The mass media, globalisation and popular culture • Globalisation: the media as a global industry (ownership, production and consumption); role of the media in creating a global culture; Americanisation and cultural homogenisation • Popular culture: the distinction between high and low culture; mass or popular culture, the dumbing down debate • Postmodernism and the media: the media become reality, simulacra, Baudrillard.

  4. The processes of selection and presentation of the content of the news • Economic and structural factors influencing the selection and presentation of news, eg costs and need for profits, technology, competition • Political and cultural factors influencing the selection and presentation of news egcensorship (direct and indirect, self-censorship); the social construction of news • News values and the role of gatekeepers; agenda setting and ideology • The impact of new media on the selection, presentation and control of the news • Moral panics.

  5. Media representations of age, social class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality anddisability • The nature of representations; key terms used in discussing representations such as stereotype, under-representation, the gaze, binary oppositions, the Other • Representation and power: representations as arising from the power of social groups with power in the media, negative representations of minority groups • Representations in relation to age, social class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability, with examples • Reasons for changes in representations over time.

  6. The relationship between the mass media, media content and presentation, andaudiences • Methodological problems in researching media effects • Strong media/weak audience theories of media effects, eg the hypodermic syringe model • Theories of limited media effects eg the two step • Weak media/strong audience theories eg uses and gratifications • Cultural effects theories; encoding and decoding; different readings of media texts; the work of the Glasgow Media Group • The debate about whether the media can cause violence.

  7. 6 The new media and their significance for an understanding of the role of themedia in contemporary society • The development of new media, their range and importance: multi channel and digital television, mobile telephones, email, the Internet and Web 2.0, blogs and virtual realities • The effects of new media and new technologies on old media; convergence • Significance of new media for the changing relationship between audiences and the media and for the debates about ownership and control and about media effects.

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