Popular Reality: Journalism and Popular Culture

by John Hartley

Book Overview

Popular Reality is a major new study of journalism in modernity. For the first time, journalism is treated as a textual system, a "mediasphere" without which modernity's twin energies--the pursuit of freedom and comfort--could not have enjoyed their social and global reach. Hartley provides a wealth of theoretical analysis and historical detail to reconceptualize the significance of modern journalism from the point of view of its greatest creation--popular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00803A9AU
• ISBN13: 9780340584897
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: A&c Black 3pl
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.5"