News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment
Daya Thussu, "News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment"
2008 | pages: 226 | ISBN: 0761968784 | PDF | 5,6 mb
2008 | pages: 226 | ISBN: 0761968784 | PDF | 5,6 mb
Richly detailed and empirically grounded, this first book-length study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon. Going beyond - both geographically and theoretically - the ′dumbing down′ discourse, largely confined to the Anglo-American media, the book argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which ′soft news′ masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.
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