Mediaspeak: Three American VoicesThis book defines and analyzes the content, structure, and values of three predominant types of public discourse, which are labeled Doublespeak, Salespeak, and Sensationspeak. These media messages are examined to determine how they are constructed and how they influence individuals, ideology, and culture. Discussions are illustrated with a diverse range of examples from popular culture, magazines, Internet sites, politics, television, and film. Fox argues that the Information Age has replaced actual reality with representations of reality. He states that electronic media dominates our lives. Together, these three voices saturate media and technology, profoundly influencing American culture. Fox suggests specific strategies for recognizing and understanding these coded messages. This lively and informative discussion will appeal to anyone who is interested in learning how print and electronic media manipulate both individuals and society as a whole. The extensive research will appeal to media, communications, journalism, and cultural studies scholars alike. |
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Voices Are Not Peripheral to Real Actions — They Are the Real Actions Many
people dismiss language , media , and culture with a cavalier wave of the hand : “
That ' s just all peripheral or secondary stuff , " they say . “ Actions are more ...
Like these voices , media and technology themselves blur , especially as they are
filtered through our culture , an act that helps create culture . In fact , media and
technology make up two main ingredients of our culture , even though “ culture ...
much of culture ) is controlled by a few corporations ( Miller 1996 ; McChesney
1997 ) . It ' s terrible to abandon much of our identity building to others ; it ' s
unconscionable to abandon it to only a few others , whose goal is profit . Second ,
we ...
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Contents
MediaSpeak and American Voices | 1 |
Making Sense of MediaSpeak | 17 |
Doublespeak | 45 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Mediaspeak: Three American Voices |
| Author | Roy F. Fox |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Praeger, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0275961931, 9780275961930 |
| Length | 225 pages |
| Subjects | › Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies Social Science / Media Studies Social Science / Popular Culture |
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