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  • Porno? Chic!

    how pornography changed the world and made it a better place

    by Brian McNair ...
    Porno? Chic! examines the relationship between the proliferation of pornography and sexualised culture in the West and social and cultural trends which have advanced the rights of women and homosexuals.Brian McNair addresses this relationship with an analysis of trends in sexualised culture since 2002 linked to a transnational analysis of change in sexual politics and sex/gender relations in a ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Journalism and Democracy

    An Evaluation of the Political Public Sphere

    by Brian McNair ...
    The public sphere is said to be in crisis. Dumbing down, tabloidisation, infotainment and spin are alleged to contaminate it, adversely affecting the quality of political journalism and of democracy itself. There is a pervasive pessimism about the relationship between the media and democracy, and widespread concern for the future of the political process.Journalism and Democracy challenges this ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Images of the Enemy

    Reporting the New Cold War

    by Brian McNair ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Broadcasting
    Images of the Enemy (1985) discusses and decodes British television news coverage of the superpower disarmament talks and east–west crises such as the Korean airline incident. Through extensive interviews with journalists in London and Moscow, it examines the structures, organisations and political constraints that encouraged negative views of the USSR to flourish. Using Soviet and British reports ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Political Communication

    by Brian McNair ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    At a time of radical shifts in power across the globe, the sixth edition of An Introduction to Political Communication examines the role of the media in the political process. Brian McNair reflects on the role of communication in key events such as the referendum vote for the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, the rise of nationalist populism in Europe, and the victory of Donald Trump in the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Communication and Political Crisis

    Media, Politics and Governance in a Globalized Public Sphere

    by Brian McNair ...
    Series Book 16 - Global Crises and the Media
    Communication and Political Crisis explores the role of the global media in a period of intensifying geopolitical conflict. Through case studies drawn from domestic and international political crises such as the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, leading media scholar Brian McNair argues that the digitized, globalized public sphere now confronted by all political actors has produced new ... Read more

    $43.09 USD

  • Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media

    by Brian McNair ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    The reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev have brought tumultuous change to political, social and economic life in the Soviet Union. But how have these changes affected Soviet press and television reporting? Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media examines the changing role of Soviet journalism from its theoretical origins in the writings of Marx and Lenin to the new freedoms of the Gorbachev era. The ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Striptease Culture

    Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire

    by Brian McNair ...
    From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture. Striptease Culture explores the 'sexualization' of contemporary life, relating it to wider changes in post-war society.Striptease Culture is divided in to three sections:* Part one – traces the development of pornography, following its movement from elite to mass culture and the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Fake News

    Falsehood, Fabrication and Fantasy in Journalism

    by Brian McNair ...
    Narrated by Sandy Burnett ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 41 min

    Fake News: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism examines the causes and consequences of the ‘fake news’ phenomenon now sweeping the world’s media and political debates. Drawing on three decades of research and writing on journalism and news media, the author engages with the fake news phenomenon in accessible, insightful language designed to bring clarity and context to a complex and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Political Communication

    by Brian McNair ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    An Introduction to Political Communication explores the relationship between politics, the media and democracy in the UK, the USA and other contemporary societies. Brian McNair examines how politicians, trade unions, pressure groups, non-governmental organizations and terrorist organizations make use of the media. Separate chapters look at political media and their effects, the work of political ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • Cultural Chaos

    Journalism and Power in a Globalised World

    by Brian McNair ...
    With examples drawn from media coverage of the War on Terror, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the London underground bombings, Cultural Chaos explores the changing relationship between journalism and power in an increasingly globalised news culture.In this new text, Brian McNair examines the processes of cultural, geographic and political dissolution in the post-Cold War era and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Fake News

    Falsehood, Fabrication and Fantasy in Journalism

    by Brian McNair ...
    Series series Disruptions
    Fake News: Falsehood, fabrication and fantasy in journalism examines the causes and consequences of the ‘fake news’ phenomenon now sweeping the world’s media and political debates. Drawing on three decades of research and writing on journalism and news media, the author engages with the fake news phenomenon in accessible, insightful language designed to bring clarity and context to a complex and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • News and Journalism in the UK

    Series series Communication and Society
    News and Journalism in the UK is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of press and broadcast journalism in Britain and Northern Ireland.Surveying the industry in a period of radical economic and technological change, Brian McNair examines the main trends in journalistic media in the last two decades and assesses the challenges and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD