McQuail's Reader in Mass Communication Theory

Denis McQuail (1935-2017) was Emeritus Professor at the School of Communication Research (ASCOR) University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton. He studied history and sociology at the University of Oxford and received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds. He is an Honorary Doctor of the University of Gent. He has published widely in the field of media and communication, with particular reference to audience research, media policy and performance, and political communication. His most recent book publication is McQuail's Media and Mass Communication Theory, 7th edition., SAGE, 2020, co-authored by Mark Deuze.

PART ONE: ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE FIELD OF STUDY General Introduction PART TWO: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES AND VARIETIES OF APPROACH - Denis McQuail Editor's Introduction Media Sociology - Todd Gitlin The Dominant Paradigm A Cultural Approach to Communication - James W Carey A `New' Paradigm? - Liesbet van Zoonen The Propaganda Model - Edward S Herman A Retrospective PART THREE: MASS MEDIA AND SOCIETY Editor's Introduction The Mass Society - C Wright Mills The Communications Revolution - Alvin W Gouldner News, Public, and Ideology Defining Media Events - Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz Media and Behavior - a missing link - Joshua Meyrowiz PART FOUR: FROM OLD TO NEW MEDIA Editor's Introduction Towards a New Classification of Tele-Information Services - Jan L Bordewijk and Ben van Kaam Artifacts and Paradoxes in New Media - Ronald E Rice The Internet as Mass Medium - Merrill Morris and Christine Ogan The Internet and Forms of Human Association - James Slevin PART FIVE: NORMATIVE THEORY Editor's Introduction The Press and the Public Interest - Everette E Dennis A Definitional Dilemma Foundations and Limits of Freedom of the Press - Judith Lichtenberg On Social Responsibility Theory - John C Nerone The Public Sphere as Historical Narrative - Peter Dalhgren New Roles for Public Service Television - Jay G Blumler and Wolfgang Hoffmann-Reim PART SIX: GLOBAL MASS COMMUNICATION Editor's Introduction Theorizing the News Agencies - Oliver Boyd-Barrett and Terhi Rantanen The Discourse of Cultural Imperialism - John Tomlinson International Communication at the Mass Media Level - Karl Erik Rosengren The Mythology about Globalization - Marjorie Ferguson PART SEVEN: MEDIA ORGANIZATION AND PRODUCTION Editor's Introduction A New Gatekeeping Model - Pamela J Shoemaker Making News - Gaye Tuchman Time and Typifications Does Serving the Market Conflict with Serving the Public? - John H McManus The Hollywood TV Producer - Muriel G Cantor PART EIGHT: MEDIA CONTENT Editor's Introduction Rhetoric of the Image - Roland Barthes Meaning and Ideology - Judith Williamson The Television Discourse; Encoding and Decoding - Stuart Hall The Ideal Romance - Janice Radway PART NINE: THE MEDIA AUDIENCE Editor's Introduction Three Phases of Reception Studies - Pertti Alasuutari Streamlining `Television Audiences' - Ien Ang Fandom as Pathology - Joli Jenson The Consequences of Characterization Needs as an Explanatory Factor of Television Viewing - Celia von Feilitzen The Future of the Mass Audience - W Russell Neuman PART TEN: MASS MEDIA EFFECTS Editor's Introduction Publicity and Pluralistic Ignorance - Elihu Katz Notes on the `Spiral of Silence' Framing - Robert M Entman Towards Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm Children and Television Violence in the United States - Ellen Wartella, Adriana Olivarez and Nancy Jennings Entertainment as Media Effect - Dolf Zillmann and Jennings Bryant