Exploring the intersection of media and medicine, this book utilizes perspectives from anthropology, linguistics, and media studies to highlight how news coverage shapes cultural perceptions of health and disease. It delves into the significant impact of media narratives on societal understandings, emphasizing the crucial role that information dissemination plays in the medical landscape.
"Climate Changed is an honest and humane account about the rapid downsizing of the world's natural resources and the consequences this has for millions of people who, year after year, are displaced from their home countries because of politically-instigated and economically-justified war and conflict. Based on interviews with 110 refugees who arrived into Europe from 2015 to 2018 and observations of refugee camps, border crossings, inner-city slums, social housing projects, NGO and related refugee associations, it offers a moving insight into the refugee experience of leaving home, crossing borders and settling in Europe and sets this against the geo-political and commercial enterprise that dismantled their countries in the international chase for wilting quantities of the world's natural resources. Yet at every point of their journey to their new lives and in the resettlement process, the refugees are on the end of more perpetual victimisation and exploitation as there is always money to be made from them. Even if their labour is in demand, all this is further exacerbated by a European social climate of intolerance and stigma which jeopardises integration and counters their wellbeing and safety. The climate has changed. Students, lecturers and professors and other similar academic workers, policymakers, various practitioners, and voluntary workers within the sector of refugee frontlines as well as aid workers, town planners and welfare support staff would find relevance in this book"
Focusing on the interplay between media and political systems, this book analyzes media institutions across eighteen West European and North American democracies. It highlights key variations in media systems influenced by political factors and delineates three primary models of media development: Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist, and Liberal. The author elucidates how these models lead to differing roles of media in politics, providing a comprehensive framework for understanding the complex relationship between media and governance.
This book asks whether the decision to lock down the world was justified in
proportion to the potential harms and risks generated by the Covid-19 virus.
Vietnam was America's most divisive and unsuccessful foreign war. It was also the first to be televised and the first of the modern era fought without military censorship. From the earliest days of the Kennedy-Johnson escalation right up to the American withdrawal, and even today, the media's role in Vietnam has continued to be intensely controversial. The "Uncensored War" gives a richly detailed account of what Americans read and watched about Vietnam. Hallin draws on the complete body of the New York Times coverage from 1961 to 1965, a sample of hundreds of television reports from 1965-73, including television coverage filmed by the Defense Department in the early years of the war, and interviews with many of the journalists who reported it, to give a powerful critique of the conventional wisdom, both conservative and liberal, about the media and Vietnam. Far from being a consistent adversary of government policy in Vietnam, Hallin shows, the media were closely tied to official perspectives throughout the war, though divisions in the government itself and contradictions in its public relations policies caused every administration, at certain times, to lose its ability to "manage" the news effectively. As for television, it neither showed the "literal horror of war," nor did it play a leading role in the collapse of it presented a highly idealized picture of the war in the early years, and shifted toward a more critical view only after public unhappiness and elite divisions over the war were well advanced. The "Uncensored War" is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Vietnam war or the role of the media in contemporary American politics.A groundbreaking study of the media's influence on the Vietnam War·Overturns the conventional notions about the media's role in the war·Draws directly on a huge body of newspaper and TV coverage
Kniha, která představuje základní přehled národních mediálních systémů euro-amerického prostoru, je přelomovou studií z oblasti systémového pohledu na média. Autoři rozlišují tři základní typy mediálních systémů – polarizovaně pluralitní, demokraticko-korporativní a liberální – přičemž srovnávají fungování politických a mediálních systémů ve třech geograficky a zároveň politicky spřízněných oblastech (státy kolem Středozemního moře, střední a severní Evropa, anglosaské země). Kniha dává nahlédnout do příčin zásadních rozdílností v přístupu médií k politice a komercionalizaci médií, k profesionalitě mediálních pracovníků a k jejich roli vzhledem k veřejnému mínění a veřejné sféře. Kniha je kvalitním studijním materiálem pro studenty oborů žurnalistika, mediální studia a politologie.
D. C. Hallin je profesorem komunikačních věd a politických věd na Kalifornské univerzitě v San Diegu.
P. Mancini přednáší politickou komunikaci na Fakultě politických věd na univerzitě v Perugii.
