Message received : Glasgow Media Group research, 1993-1998 / edited by Greg Philo.

Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 1999.

xvii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Sociology of media power : key issues in audience reception research / Jenny Kitzinger -- Effective media / David Miller and Greg Philo -- Children and film/video/TV violence ; Media and mental illness / Greg Philo -- Producing serious soaps / Lesley Henderson -- Audience responses to suicide in a television drama ; Why go to casualty? Health fears and fictional television / Greg Philo and Lesley Henderson -- Risk, society and the media : now you see it, now you don't / John Eldridge -- 'Just another food scare?' Public understanding and the BSE crisis / Jacquie Reilly -- Race, advertising and the public face of television / Lisa Beattie, Furzana Khan and Greg Philo -- Race, migration and media / Greg Philo and Liza Beattie -- Refugees, migrants and the fall of the Berlin Wall / Greg McLaughlin -- Media and the Rwanda crisis : effects on audiences and public policy / Greg Philo ... [et al.] -- Media and Africa : images of disaster and rebellion / Liza Beattie ... [et al.] --- Teaching journalism in Britain / Kevin Williams -- Conclusions on media audiences and message reception / Greg Philo

Includes bibliographic references (p. [369]-375) and index