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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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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New. A study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers an analysis of this emerging phenomenon. It argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which 'soft news' masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables. BIC Classification: KNTD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348. 2008. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.