Whose News?
ISBN: 9780761934936
出版社: Sage Pubns
出版年: 2006-8
页数: 408
定价: $ 44.07
装帧: Pap
内容简介
This is the Second Edition of the highly successful and pioneering first edition (SAGE 1994), which analysed the coverage of issues of particular concern to women in the mainstream media in India over eventful the decade of 1978-1987. Since then, dramatic developments have taken place in both the national and the global media environment which have resulted in technological and market driven transformations. This has raised a new set of questions concerning women's access to the media and information in general, as users, participators in media and communication structures and their portrayal and perspectives in media content. This Second Edition retains the unique gender analysis of media content and situates, views and evaluates the coverage of gender issues in the media against the background of globalization in general and media globalization in particular, offering updates on the media coverage of women-related issues: dowry-related violence; rape; sex selection; Muslim women's legal rights; and the practice of sati.