Mass communications and media studies : an introduction / Peyton Paxson

By:

Paxson, Peyton [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, c2018Edition: Second EditionDescription: viii, 321 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9781501329982

Subject(s):

MASS MEDIA

LOC classification:

P 90 .P39 2018

Contents:

Part one: An overview of mass communications and media studies -- Part two: Traditional media -- Part three: Emerging media -- Part four: Changes, trends and the future.

Summary: During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice--drawing persistent attention to what they called "fictitious capital." In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually disappeared by the 1860s, replaced by notions of fickle investor psychology and mental equilibrium encapsulated in the fascinating metaphor of "psychic economy.

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National University - Manila	LRC - Annex General Circulation	Communication	GC P 90 .P39 2018 c.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c.1	Available		NULIB000018535

Includes index.

Part one: An overview of mass communications and media studies -- Part two: Traditional media -- Part three: Emerging media -- Part four: Changes, trends and the future.

During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice--drawing persistent attention to what they called "fictitious capital." In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually disappeared by the 1860s, replaced by notions of fickle investor psychology and mental equilibrium encapsulated in the fascinating metaphor of "psychic economy.

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