Communication and Race: A Structural Perspective: A Structural Perspective - Communication and Critique - Softcover

Gandy Jr, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340676892 ISBN 13: 9780340676899

Publisher: Hodder Education, 1998

Synopsis

'Communication and Race: A Structural Perspective' provides a comprehensive review of scholarly approaches to understanding the place of race and ethnicity in the evolving systems of information media. It explores the concept of race through three streams of analysis: media systems and institutions; communication frames and symbolic representations; and social constructions. Borrowing insights from behavioural science, political economy, and the more interpretative strands of contemporary cultural studies, the book enters directly into the contemporary debate about structure and agency, and ends by proposing an agenda for the development of critical theory in the area of race and ethnicity.

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Synopsis

This is an exploration of the ways in which the mass media of communication influence and reflect the character of racial and ethnic identity, and the relations between individuals and groups. A structural perspective is one which emphasizes the regularity of patterns of behaviour, ideas, images, opinions, and relationships, and argues that this regularoty reflects the influence of structure. The structural perspective which is elaborated in this book describes structures as being dynamic and subject to change. Such change occurs primarily at historical junctures we associate with critical events. Cognitive structures, market structures, and structures of representation of similarity and difference are shown to be related to each other in ways that change over time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder Education
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340676892
• ISBN 13: 9780340676899
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296