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Communicating unreality : modern media and the reconstruction of reality
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Communicating unreality : modern media and the reconstruction of reality / Gabriel Weimann.
ISBN
0761919856
0761919864
Published
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, Inc., c2000.
Physical Description
xiii, 441 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-425) and index.
Contents
Living in a mediated world
The debate over media effects
Cultivation and mainstreaming
The psychology of cultivation
The mean and scary world
Sex and sexuality
Death and suicide
The world according to MTV
Portrayal of groups
Images of America
The unreal war
Virtual reality: virtual or real?
Communicating unreality.
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