[Commlist] New Book: Media Analysis and Public Health: Contemporary Issues in Critical Public health

new edited volume on media and public health:

Media Analysis and Public Health: Contemporary Issues in Critical Public 
Health, 1^st Edition (Routledge)

Edited by Dr Lesley Henderson (Brunel University London), Professor 
Shona Hilton (University of Glasgow), Professor Judith Green (Kings 
College London).

This volume showcases new approaches to studying public health in 
traditional and emerging media, suggesting that we need more analyses 
that focus on the production of media and on power dynamics, as well as 
studies of audience reception of media messages.

The collection asks a variety of questions about the role of media in 
analysing public health. Contributors ask: who is influential in 
producing the stories we see in the press and on social media? Who 
benefits, and who is damaged, by media debates on health topics? They 
investigate the role of big business in seeking to shape public opinion 
and consumption in print and online media; how issues such as hand 
washing come to be framed over time by newspapers; how conflicts over 
immunisations get covered; how health promotion messages do their work; 
and the positive role of online media in helping foster drug safety. 
Together, they reach the conclusion that since mass media is a crucial 
element of civic society, more in-depth understanding of how it works 
and what impacts it has on public health is essential.

Given the crucial role of the media in shaping health debates, pushing 
certain issues up the policy agenda, defining problems for audiences and 
presenting potential solutions, this book’s analysis will be of interest 
to all those studying how the media shape policy, as well as public 
health researchers with an interest in mass communication. This book was 
originally published as a special issue of /Critical Public Health./

https://www.routledge.com/Media-Analysis-and-Public-Health-Contemporary-Issues-in-Critical-Public/Henderson-Hilton-Green/p/book/9780367335984


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