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Stocchetti, Matteo / Kukkonen, Karin
Critical Media Analysis
An Introduction for Media Professionals
Year of Publication: 2011
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011. 144 pp., 1 table, 1 graph
ISBN 978-3-631-60584-4 pb.
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Book synopsis
This book provides undergraduate students in media programmes with the essential background knowledge to start developing critical analytical skills. It instructs media professionals to realise the key role of the media in the social construction of reality and to understand the many ways in which individuals and groups compete for the influence associated with this role. Based on the teaching experience of the authors, this book strikes a balance between the complexities of media phenomena, and the students' need for uncomplicated and accessible readings. Critical Media Analysis introduces students to the basics of media work, theory and history, and discusses how media professionals can engage with the postmodern challenges. This textbook makes the case for the relevance of critical knowledge and skills, next to technical and business training, in the education of competent and responsible media professionals.
Contents
Contents: Critical Media Analysis - Critical Thinking - Media and the Social Construction of Reality - Media Theory - History of Media - Marxism - Semiotics - Psychoanalysis - Visual Communication - Critical Knowledge - Media Education - Media and Postmodernism - Power of Media and Professional Responsibility.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
Matteo Stocchetti is Senior Lecturer at Arcada University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki where he teaches Critical Media Analysis.
Karin Kukkonen (PhD) is currently Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. At Arcada she has done research in visual communication and media rhetoric. She has also taught in Critical Media Analysis.