The Place of Media Power - Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age (Hardcover)

This fascinating study focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between 'ordinary people' and the media. Nick Couldry explores what happens when people who normally consume the media witness media processes in action, or even become the object of media attention themselves. Such encounters, Couldry argues, offer a new way of thinking about the media's impact on contemporary social life, the basis of their social authority, and the possibility of challenging it.
Using two detailed case studies, of visitors to the Granada Studios Tour, Manchester, home of the outdoor set of 'Coronation Street', and of protestors against live animal exports at Brightlingsea, Nick Couldry develop a wide-ranging theory of how the media's special status - as storytellers and presenters of 'facts' - is maintained.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Comedia
Release date:	December 1999
First published:	2000
Authors:	Nick Couldry
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-21314-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-415-21314-2
Barcode:	9780415213141

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