Böcker i Communication and Society-serien

In a series of case studies from Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the contributors explore relationships between media, power and society in a variety of regional and national contexts, and the effects of globalization.

Ill Effects argues that the question of media influence needs to be debated by those with a clearer understanding of how audiences and media interact with one another.

The first collection of cultural studies essays from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.

Three experts in media ethics reexamine ethical behaviour in news gathering and reporting. The book combines a wide range of real-life and hypothetical examples of ethical dilemmas in news reporting with a thoughtful critique of the underlying individualistic theories of mainstream media ethics.

Explores British media history as a series of competing narratives. This collection identifies and contrasts the various interrelationships between media histories, and also encourages dialogue between different historical, political, and theoretical perspectives, including: liberalism; feminism; populism; nationalism; and, libertarianism.

Addressing the complicated economic and policy issues of telecommunications in Europe, this study discusses the evolution of central telephone networks, equipment supply, value-added networks and new telecommunications-related services on a country-by-country basis.

Focusing on the breakdown of the monopoly control of national communication systems across Europe, this critical analysis surveys the contemporary state of television broadcasting on a country-by-country basis.

Offering an booklength exploration of network television's relations with advocacy groups, Kathryn C. Montgomery presents a picture of the impact of organized pressure on prime-time TV.

Television has changed drastically in the Soviet Union over the last two decades. Ellen Mickiewicz's volume challenges us to consider how television has become Mikhail Gorbachev's most powerful instrument for paving the way for major reform. Mickiewicz explores the changes in programming that have occurred as a result of glasnost.

Much of this study, which addresses the issue of alternative ways of financing public service broadcasting in the USA and Europe, has been based on the Peacock Committee on Financing the BBC, in which the author was involved.

A fresh and innovative combination of previously published work and influential new thinking. It is an indispensable aid to the study of journalism and media history.