Mass Media

This book provides a much needed short, reliable and stimulating guide to the mass media in present day society. Incisive, surprising and stimulating it will become an essential text in thinking and writing about the mass media. This work attempts to take into account the whole "system" of information and entertainment and to define, on the basis of theory and a number of case studies, the conditions and prerequisites for a cross-media enquiry on the media and their different uses in societies. Sorlin provides a much needed short, reliable and stimulating guide to the mass media in present day society. Incisive, surprising and stimulating it is an ideal text for those writing and thinking about the mass media. Pierre Sorlin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.