| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 441 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Summary |
"Communicating Unreality reviews the images and meanings of our mass-mediated world. With careful attention to the integration of news and entertainment, fact and fiction, and event and story, author Gabriel Weimann examines our symbolic environment, in which reality and fiction are almost inseparable. Through discussion of mass-mediated images of people, cultures, war, love, sex, death, community and identity, we learn that there often exists a large gap between reality and reconstruction of "realities" as communicated by the mass media."--Jacket. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Influence.
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Mass media -- Influence. |
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Mass media -- United States.
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Mass media. |
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United States. |
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Mass media -- Social aspects.
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Mass media -- Social aspects. |
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Mass media -- Psychological aspects.
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Mass media -- Psychological aspects. |
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Reality.
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Reality. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weimann, Gabriel, 1950- Communicating unreality. Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, ©2000 0761919856 (DLC) 99006520 (OCoLC)41404330 |
| ISBN |
9781452263540 (electronic book) |
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145226354X (electronic book) |
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0761919856 |
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9780761919858 |
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0761919864 |
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9780761919865 |
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