Mass communications and media studies : an introduction / Peyton Paxson

By: Paxson, Peyton [author]Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, c2018Edition: Second EditionDescription: viii, 321 pages ; 23 cmISBN: 9781501329982Subject(s): MASS MEDIA | COMMUNICATIONLOC classification: P 90 .P39 2018
Contents:
Part one: An overview of mass communications and media studies -- Part two: Traditional media -- Part three: Emerging media -- Part four: Changes, trends and the future.
Summary: During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice--drawing persistent attention to what they called "fictitious capital." In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually disappeared by the 1860s, replaced by notions of fickle investor psychology and mental equilibrium encapsulated in the fascinating metaphor of "psychic economy.
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Includes index.

Part one: An overview of mass communications and media studies -- Part two: Traditional media -- Part three: Emerging media -- Part four: Changes, trends and the future.

During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rapidly to outpace industrial production and consumption, Victorian financial journalists commonly explained the instability of finance by criticizing its inherent artifice--drawing persistent attention to what they called "fictitious capital." In a shift that naturalized this artifice, this critique of fictitious capital virtually disappeared by the 1860s, replaced by notions of fickle investor psychology and mental equilibrium encapsulated in the fascinating metaphor of "psychic economy.

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