The Handbook of Media and Mass Communication Theory

Volume I
 
Notes on Contributors ix
 
Introduction xix
 
Part I Classical Theories of Media and the Press 1
 
1 Classical Liberal Theory in a Digital World 3
Stephen J. A. Ward
 
2 The Origins of Media Theory: An Alternative View 22
Robert S. Fortner
 
3 Political Economic Theory and Research: Conceptual Foundations and Current Trends 37
Vincent Mosco
 
4 Semiotics and the Media 56
Bronwen Martin
 
5 Symbolic Interactionism and the Media 74
Norman K. Denzin
 
6 Patterns in the Use of Theory in Media Effects Research 95
W. James Potter
 
7 Cultivation Theory: Its History, Current Status, and Future Directions 115
Daniel Romer, Patrick Jamieson, Amy Bleakley, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson
 
8 Media Ecology: Contexts, Concepts, and Currents 137
Casey Man Kong Lum
 
9 Dramatistic Theory: A Burkeian Approach to the 2004 Madrid Terrorist Attacks 154
Cristina Zurutuza-Muñoz
 
10 Ritual Theory and the Media 172
John J. Pauly
 
11 Jacques Ellul and the Nature of Propaganda in the Media 190
Randal Marlin
 
12 Lewis Mumford: Technics, Civilization, and Media Theory 210
Robert S. Fortner
 
13 The Impact of Ethics on Media and Press Theory 225
Clifford G. Christians
 
Part II Audiences, Social Construction, and Social Control 249
 
14 Agenda-Setting Influence of the Media in the Public Sphere 251
Maxwell E. McCombs and Lei Guo
 
15 The Uses and Gratifications (U&G) Approach as a Lens for Studying Social Media Practice 269
Anabel Quan-Haase and Alyson L. Young
 
16 The Media's Impact on Perceptions of Political Polarization 287
Jeffrey Crouch and Mark J. Rozell
 
17 The Social-Cultural Construction of News: From Doing Work to Making Meanings 301
Daniel A. Berkowitz and Zhengjia Liu
 
18 Media, Civil Society, and the Public Sphere: History and Current Thinking 314
Robert S. Fortner, Ann Snesareva, and Ksenia

Robert S. Fortner is Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Bulgaria. He is the author or editor of seven books and almost 100 essays.
 
P. Mark Fackler is Professor of Communication at Calvin College. He has written extensively on topics relating to communication and journalism ethics.

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