Part 1 Mass media and society: general perspectives; culture, communications, and political economy, Peter Golding and Graham Murdock; feminist perspectives on the media, Liesbet van Zoonen; postmodernism and television, John Fiske; mass media and democracy - a reappraisal, James Curren; mass media in the public interest - towards a framework of norms for media performance, Denis McQuail; the global and the local in international communications, Annabelle Sreberny Mohammadi. Part 2 Media production: the sociology of news production revisited, Michael Schudson; a mass communication perspective on entertainment industries, Joseph Turow; the globalization of electronic journalism, Michael Gurevitch; the new television marketplace - imperatives, implication, issues, Jay G. Blumler; in defence of objectivity, Judith Lichtenberg. Part 3 Mediation of cultural meanings; on understanding and misunderstanding media effects, Jack M. McLeod, et al; meaning, genre and context - the problematics of "public knowledge" in the new audience studies, John Corner; audience reception - the role of the viewer in retelling romantic drama, Sonia M. Livingstone; gender and/in media consumption, Ien Ang and Joke Hermes; the politics of communication and the communication of politics, Todd Gitlin.
