Mass media, social control, and social change : a macrosocial perspective /

Mass media, social control, and social change : a macrosocial perspective / [print] edited by David Demers and K. Viswanath. - first edition. - Ames : Iowa State University Press, (c)1999. - xiii, 454 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Mass media from a macrosocial perspective Cultivation and social control Media dependency theory: origins and directions Social control, social change and local mass media Social control, social change and the knowledge gap hypothesis Structural pluralism and media accounts of risk Community pluralism and the "tipping point": editorial responses to race and related structural change Community integration and mass media: a reconsideration Changing the media production process: from aggressive to injury-sensitive traffic crash stories A rhetorical analysis of Rupert Murdoch's vision for social change Social control, social change and the mass media's role in the regulation of protest groups Journalistic occupational development and discourses of power Sociocultural evolution and the gratification niche Corporate news structure, social control and social change Justifying change and control: an application of discourse ethics to the role of mass media K. Viswanath and David Demers -- James Shanahan and Victoria Jones -- The effect of the mass media on opinion formation Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann -- Debra Merskin -- Douglas Blanks Hindman -- Emanuel Gaziano and Cecilie Gaziano -- Sharon Dunwoody and Robert J. Griffin -- Oscar H. Gandy Jr. -- Shaping the news mirror: community structure, reporter specialization and content diversity William F. Griswold -- Lewis A. Friedland and Jack M. McLeod -- Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach...[and others] -- Entertainment-education media strategies for social change: promises and problems William J. Brown and Arvind Singhal -- Ian G. Weber -- Douglas M. McLeod and James K. Hertog -- Patricia L. Dooley -- John Dimmick -- David Demers -- Theodore L. Glasser and Peggy J. Bowers.



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Social change.
Mass media--Influence.
Social control.
Mass media--Social aspects.

HM101.V834.M377 1999