| Popular Reality: Journalism and Popular Culture Contributor(s): Hartley, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0340584890 ISBN-13: 9780340584897 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $54.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2009 Annotation: Popular Reality is a major new study of journalism in modernity. For the first time, journalism is treated as a textual system, a "mediasphere" without which modernity's twin energies--the pursuit of freedom and comfort--could not have enjoyed their social and global reach. Hartley provides a wealth of theoretical analysis and historical detail to reconceptualize the significance of modern journalism from the point of view of its greatest creation--popular readerships. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Political Science |
| Dewey: 070.4 |
| LCCN: 96011676 |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.69" W x 9.49" (1.30 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Popular Reality is a major new study of journalism in modernity. For the first time, journalism is treated as a textual system, a mediasphere without which modernity's twin energies--the pursuit of freedom and comfort--could not have enjoyed their social and global reach. Hartley provides a wealth of theoretical analysis and historical detail to reconceptualize the significance of modern journalism from the point of view of its greatest creation--popular readerships. |
