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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>98026143 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Social change.<br/>Mass media--Influence.<br/>Social control.<br/>Mass media--Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HM101.V834.M377 1999