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Moral Panics and the Media
Chas Critcher Manufacturer: Open University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0335209084 |
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How are social problems defined and responded to in contemporary society? How useful is the concept of moral panic in understanding these processes? What does an examination of recent examples reveal about the role of the media in creating, endorsing and sustaining moral panics?The term 'moral panic' is frequently applied to sudden eruptions of concern about social problems. This book critically evaluates the usefulness of moral panic models for understanding how politicians, the public and pressure groups come to recognize apparently new threats to the social order. The role of the media, especially the popular press, comes under scrutiny. Two models of moral panics are initially identified and explained, then applied to a range of case studies: AIDS, rave/ecstasy, video nasties, child abuse and pedophilia. Experience is compared across a range of countries, revealing many basic similarities but also significant variations between different national contexts. Common to all is an increasing focus on threats to children, evoking images of childhood innocence. The conclusion is that moral panic remains a useful tool for analysis but needs more systematic connection to wider theoretical concerns, especially those of the risk society and discourse analysis.
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Lies, Damn Lies and Documentaries (Distributed for the British Film Institute)
Brian Winston Manufacturer: British Film Institute ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0851707963 |
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Leading expert Brian Winston's new book is one of the first to take the ethical issue seriously. Looking at the recent crises of confidence in public service broadcasting and the controversy surrounding docusoaps, his major new study provides a foundational study of ethics and the documentary. This accessible but comprehensive treatment will be an important contribution to academic debates over the role of the media and to the ongoing debates in the documentary community.
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Media Debates: Great Issues for the Digital Age (with InfoTrac®)
Everette E. Dennis , and John C. Merrill Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0495001813 |
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There's lots of debate about the role of the media. Now you can read the best presentations from each side and decide for yourself. MEDIA DEBATES: GREAT ISSUES FOR THE DIGITAL AGE sets up experts to debate the pro or the con side of twenty issues that are central to today's media. You'll not only learn more about the media, you'll also discover your own opinion along the way.
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Media, Sex and the Adolescent (The Hampton Press Communication Series : Mass Communications and Journalism)
Manufacturer: Hampton Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1881303373 |
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Dirty Marks
John F. Schostak Manufacturer: LPC Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0745304303 |
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Ill Effects: The Media/Violence Debate (Communication and Society)
Manufacturer: Routledge ProductGroup: Book Binding: Library Binding ASIN: 0415146720 |
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Can film, television, and video really be blamed for society's problems? Ill Effects is a radical re-examination of the whole media effects debate, questioning not only whether the media is capable of directly influencing people's views and actions, but also if the idea of "effects" is the most useful way of conceptualizing the relationship between the media and audiences. Ill Effects looks at why the media are routinely blamed for horrific events such as the teenage suicide allegedly caused by the influence of rock music as well as for perceived trends such as the alleged "death of the family". The authors discuss the development and current state of play of research into media effects, the remarkable power of "common-sense" notions of media effects and the way in which the effects issue has become embroiled in debates about freedom of expression and censorship.
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Mass Media Issues: Analysis and Debate
Manufacturer: Sra ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0024026204 |
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Media Blight and the Dehumanizing of America
William K. Shrader Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0275941191 |
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This impassioned critique of contemporary mass culture argues that the media, particularly television as the spearhead of electronic communications technology, contributes to the pervasive demoralization of the American public. By stimulating the public with an endless stream of enticing, essentially unattainable illusions, the media produce what William K. Shrader calls the "experiential bind," a phenomenon rooted in the incongruity between the two juxtaposed realms of vicarious and firsthand experience. The internalized bind causes a chronically irritated self-ideal discrepancy, producing morbid guilt. This condition is familiar to mental health specialists, and is frequently invoked to explain the erratic and socially destructive behavior patterns of the mentally ill. Following a brief introduction, Chapter 1 describes the experiential bind and the media's "imagery of unreality." This imagery is analyzed from two essential aspects: (1) the "imagery of fantasy," which predominates in prime time network entertainment programming on television and in the majority of Hollywood movies; and (2) the "imagery of doom," which predominates on television news programs shown in large cities across America every evening of the week. Chapter 2 is an elaboration of psychodynamic considerations, specifically, how both aspects of unreality affect such human characteristics as self-esteem, feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and narcissism. Chapter 3 continues with societal reverberations, including loss of community involvement and rampant consumerism. Chapter 4 turns to rehabilitation and prevention, drawing on Shrader's experience as a clinical psychologist and therapist-counselor. Chapter 5 is concerned with the emergence of a technological society and its contribution to materialism in America. The final chapter presents concluding thoughts, involving especially the author's theme that "hedonistic materialism is America's Achilles Heel." Media Blight and the Dehumanizing of America is suitable for the general reader, and will be particularly useful to scholars of social/behavioral and clinical psychology, and mass communications.
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MEDIA DEBATES issues in mass Communication
Everette E. Dennis Manufacturer: Longman ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000QWBYH0 |
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Media Debates: Issues in Mass Communication
Everette E. Dennis , and John C. Merrill Manufacturer: Longman Group United Kingdom ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0801304369 |
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These renowned scholars present 19 issues specific to the interplay of media and society and debate them in this text. After a thoughtful introduction to the issue in that chapter, each author takes a pro or con position to debate the contested topic. Dennis and Merrill provide a context for students to think critically about key media topics and their impact on society by providing a balanced range of timeless and current issues in this unique format.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex, Third Edition
Sari Locker Manufacturer: Alpha ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1592573274 Release Date: 2005-08-02 |
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Sexy is as sexy does, according to Sari Locker (called "our favorite tantalizing sex writer" by Playboy magazine). But how to feel sexy if you're a virgin, or if you've experienced sexual problems, or have serious body image hang-ups? The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex succeeds in not only teaching technique (as well as a book can), but also offers serious advice for boosting your self-esteem. As with other Complete Idiot guides, you'll probably want to turn this one backwards in your bookcase, or at least get a book cover for it. But get past the silly title and you'll find a plethora of facts, tips, and tricks on topics including sexual response, masturbation, foreplay, afterplay, oral sex, fantasy, sex toys, sexual preference, cross-dressing, and "The Big Om": tantric sex.The margin notes liberally decorating the book are worth a hearty chuckle. The "Sextistics" are particularly fun and eye-opening. Some examples: only 9 percent of people surveyed believe sex appeal is innate; the rest feel it can be acquired!; about 7 percent of women have never climaxed; the majority of male crossdressers are married with children; and, according to the Hite Report, nearly 60 percent of men ages 61 to 75 said their desire for sex remained steady or increased with age, Viagra or no.
Locker, a sex educator and WCBS-TV relationship correspondent, has been a sex educator for more than a decade. That said, she should have placed the facts on contraceptives and sexually transmitted diseases earlier in the book, before the hot and heavy photographs of sexual positions. That gripe aside, Amazing Sex is worth investigating by both sexual neophytes and experienced couples looking to maintain a state of hot monogamy.
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Most people know that there's more to sex than the missionary position. But to make sex really hot, some people need a little guidance. That's where acclaimed sex educatorand WCBS-TV relationship correspondentSari Locker steps in. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex, Third Edition, has fresh advice on how readers can make smart sexual choices, cast aside inhibitions, and keep their sex life exciting well into their golden years. Readers get new and updated chapters on:Download Description
An acclaimed sex educator explains how to enjoy your sex life like never before. Topics include the pleasure of touch, sexual positions, sexual fantasy, sex online, sex toys, Tantric sex, SCustomer Reviews:
Amazing and helpful at the same time. .......2007-09-20
Outstanding!.......2007-08-18
Great Book!.......2007-08-12
It's ok........2007-08-03
Appropriate for Beginners Only- nothing interesting.......2007-07-31
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex
Sari Locker Manufacturer: Alpha ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000O8V2JQ |
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Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex, the
Sari Locker Manufacturer: Dove Audio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000MVB20O |
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Money Matters for Newlyweds
Larry Burkett Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0785264809 |
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One of America's foremost authorities on financial stewardship offers money advice to young couples in Money Matters for Newlyweds. Larry Burkett provides clear, concise answers to frequently asked questions and unique insight into the financial issues that arise in the first few years of marriage. Drawing from more than thirty years of Bible and finance study, Burkett suggests principles for managing your money in a number of categories, including: housing and automobiles, budgeting, taxes, debt and credit, giving, and investments.
Contains previously published material from Money Matters (0785266097).
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CHRISTIAN FINANCIAL ADVICE.......2004-12-03
Do you live in the Middle Ages?.......2004-04-22
What would Jesus buy? Certainly not this book!.......2003-06-26
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Money matters for newlyweds
Kathleen A Stepp Manufacturer: Citibank ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0006P2BUQ |
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Klondikes, Chipped Ham, & Skyscraper Cones: The Story of Isaly's
Brian Butko Manufacturer: Stackpole Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0811728447 |
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Another fine work by Mr. Butko.......2001-10-12
A must read!.......2001-06-21
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