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[ecrea] The Contradictions of Media Power - just published book

Wed Oct 08 09:21:19 GMT 2014




'"Media power" is one of those phrases that trips easily off the tongue. Of all the assumptions it contains, none is more controversial and disputed than the belief that audiences are highly susceptible to media influence. Media owners and executives will have none of it. Audiences don't like to see themselves as pliable. So where does the truth about media power lie?

This is just one of the questions taken up by Des Freedman in his book, The Contradictions of Media Power?, which was published last week.' (Roy Greenslade's blog in the Guardian, 1 October) Available for a reduced price at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-contradictions-of-media-power-9781849660693/


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Reviews

“Over the past decade Des Freedman has established himself as one of the preeminent media scholars in the world. The Contradictions of Media Power is his finest work to date, demonstrating Freedman's superior command of political and social theory. Each page bristles with keen and original insights. The book is absolutely mandatory reading for anyone seeking a critical analysis of media and society.” – Robert W. McChesney, Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and author of Digital Disconnect

“Des Freedman provides a much needed boost to radical approaches to power with this highly sophisticated and interrogation of the workings of media power. This book is simply the best version of the political economy reading of media power that we have. It faces head on how the economic power vested in media institutions is being reconstituted in the age of social media, while occasionally generating media products that make powerful critiques of the very processes of capitalism that produced them.” – Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

“Freedman brilliantly tackles the central issue concerning the media in modern life: their power. He is critical but never simplistic, rigorous without being pedantic, and passionate without ever sacrificing intellectual depth.” – David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Media and Music Industries, University of Leeds, UK

“Des Freedman is among the world's leading analysts of media power. Always cogent, always scholarly, and always lively, his work takes us into the grubbiest corners and cleanses them with brilliant illumination.” – Toby Miller, Sir Walter Murdoch Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, Murdoch University, Australia, and Professor of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK

- See more at: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-contradictions-of-media-power-9781849660693/#sthash.5OvwIra0.dpuf





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