Media, State and Nation: Political Violence and Collective Identities - Couverture souple

Schlesinger, Philip

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803985045 ISBN 13 : 9780803985049

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

In this incisive text on media and collective identity, Philip Schlesinger develops our understanding of the contemporary struggles over political discourse. Three key themes are presented. Firstly the concepts of `violence' and `terrorism' are shown to be fundamentally rooted in the competing communicative strategies of the state and of its opponents. The second part considers the external enemies of both nation-state and ideological bloc, and the final part addresses the involvement of media and state with collective identities, including those which transcend the boundaries of the state. By combining analyses of particular political issues and case studies of media-state relations, the book demonstrates the complexity of political commun

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À propos de l'auteur

Philip Schlesinger was appointed to the University of Glasgow’s new Chair in Cultural Policy and became Academic Director of CCPR in January 2007. He was previously Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of Stirling and founding Director of Stirling Media Research Institute. He has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Greenwich, a Nuffield Social Science Research Fellow, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute of Florence, and has held the Queen Victoria Eugenia Chair of Doctoral Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was a longstanding Visiting Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Lugano, and at the Institut d′Etudes Politiques in Toulouse, CELSA in Paris, LUISS University in Rome, the University of Salamanca, and a Visiting Scholar at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. He is the author of Putting ′Reality′ Together (2nd ed. 1987) and Media, State and Nation (1991) and is co-author of Televising ‘Terrorism′ (1983), Women Viewing Violence (1992), Reporting Crime (1994) Open Scotland? (2001) and Mediated Access (2003).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803985045
• ISBN 13: 9780803985049
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible