News as entertainment: the rise of global infotainment
Auteur :
Thussu, Daya
Éditeur :
SAGE Publications Inc
ISBN :
9780761968788
Date de publication :
9 janv. 2008
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 cm
Poids :
480 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.