Denis Mcquail
Biographic Data
| ID | 111019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denis Mcquail |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denis |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcquail |
| SIGNATURE | MCQUAIL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 471 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
McQuail's Media and Mass Communication Theory
Communication Models for the Study of Mass Communications
Journalism and Society
This is a major new statement on the role of journalism in democracy from one of media and communication's leading thinkers. Denis McQuail leads the reader through a systematic exploration of how and why journalism and society have become so inextricably entwined and - as importantly - what this relationship should be like. It is a strong re-statement of the fundamental values that journalism aspires to." -- Publisher website
Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies
‘The Television Audience: A Revised Perspective’
Media, Regulation of
Media regulation refers to all means by which media organizations are formally restrained or directed in their activities. In this context, the reference is primarily to external control by way of public policy, law, and regulation, although it also includes some forms of self‐regulation, especially when these are intended to meet public concerns. The term media refers to publicly available means of communication, in particular the mass media of …
On the Mediatization of War: A Review Article
Communication Theory and Research
Chapter 2. Communication theory and the Western bias
Publication in a free society: The Problem of Accountability
Whether or not we are truly experiencing a communications revolution or entering a new 'information age', there are certainly major changes under way that are disturbing settled institutions of the press and media
The Sage Handbook of Media Studies
Offers a comprehensive overview of the field of media studies at the start of the 21st century. This text examines five distinct areas including basic approaches, methods of media research perspectives on media in society, the media mosaic, & the audience
The Media in Europe: The Euromedia Research Group
Introduction - Denis McQuail Austria - Josef Trappel Belgium - Els De Bens Czech Republic - Jan [ac]Cul[ac]ik Denmark - Frands Mortensen Finland - Marina [um]Osterlund-Karinkanta France - Jean-Marie Charon Germany - Hans J Kleinsteuber Greece - Stylianos Papathanossopoulos Hungary - B[ac]alazs Kiss Ireland - Wolfgang Truetzschler Italy - Gianpietro Mazzoleni Luxembourg - Mario Hirsch The Netherlands - Kees Brants Norway - Helge [sl]Ostbye Poland …
News Media Production: Individuals, Organizations, and Institutions
Media Policy: Convergence, Concentration and Commerce
Media Policy Paradigm Shifts: Towards a New Communications Policy Paradigm
This article deals with communications and media policy paradigms. In the US and Western Europe three paradigmatic phases of communications and media policy may be distinguished: the paradigm of emerging communications industry policy (until the Second World War); the paradigm of public service media policy (1945-1980/90); and the current phase (from 1980/90 onwards) in which a new policy paradigm is searched for. In Phase I, communications and m…
The Media and Lifestyle: Editor's Introduction
With More Hindsight: Conceptual Problems and Some Ways Forward for Media Use Research
Twenty years ago, the author assessed the failure and future of the 'Uses and Gratifications' field of research (McQuail, 1984). In this contribution, he will reflect on 'Gratifications' research and comment on conceptual problems and some ways forward in 'Media Use' research. This approach is assumed to have the capacity to provide a descriptive mapping of complex situations such as audience behavior and audience experience, especially at a time…
McQuail's mass communication theory
PART ONE: PRELIMINARIES 1. Introduction to the Book Our object of study The structure of the book Themes and issues in mass communication Manner of treatment How to use the book Limitations of coverage and perspective Different kinds of theory Communication science and the study of mass communication Alternative traditions of analysis: structural, behavioural and cultural Conclusion 2. The Rise of Mass Media From the beginning to mass media Print…
Audience Analysis
Policy Help Wanted: Willing and Able Media Culturalists Please Apply
Accountability of Media to Society: Principles and Means
Developments in technology, deregulation and increased commercialization have combined to pose a threat to established ways of relating the activities and aspirations of mass media to the `needs of society'. At the core of the problem is the dilemma of reconciling media freedom with legitimate claims and expectations from private and public interests, under fundamentally changing conditions. This article considers some basic principles of the acc…
Audience analysis
In Audience Analysis, author Denis McQuail provides a coherent and succinct account of the concept "media audience" in terms of its history and its place in present-day media theory and research. He describes and explains the main types of audience, alternative theories about the audience, and the main traditions and fields of audience research. This informative volume explains the contrast between social scientific and humanistic approaches and …
Media Performance: Mass Communication and the Public Interest
Media Performance Assessment in the Public Interest: Principles and Methods
This chapter offers a characterization and an overview of a particular tradition of media research that has been concerned with the assessment of the quality of mass media “performance” according to a number of normative standards relating to different conceptions and perceptions of the “public interest.” Typical features of the research, which has often been related to considerations of media policy and is broadly in line with “social responsibi…
Caging the Beast: Constructing a Framework for the Analysis of Media Change in Western Europe
The causes which underlie current changes in European media systems are numerous and complex and present alternative possibilities for interpretation and for research directions. This article examines some of the alternatives and chooses to place an emphasis on the factors of external pressure and internal conflict. Commerce provides the main driving force for change, but the outcome will depend on a balance of forces, which include the wishes of…
Media Performance: Mass Communication and the Public Interest
Sociology of Mass Communication
Mass communication has always been an object of interdisciplinary study, but it is currently gaining a greater degree of autonomy. The paradigm that is emerging has probably been more influenced by sociology than by any other discipline. This review deals with literature, mainly published during the last five years, chosen according to the significance or representativeness of the main themes. Among thesc is media theory, where the field has prov…
Television in Politics: Its Uses and Influences
Media Policy Paradigm Shifts: Towards a New Communications Policy Paradigm
This article deals with communications and media policy paradigms. In the US and Western Europe three paradigmatic phases of communications and media policy may be distinguished: the paradigm of emerging communications industry policy (until the Second World War); the paradigm of public service media policy (1945-1980/90); and the current phase (from 1980/90 onwards) in which a new policy paradigm is searched for. In Phase I, communications and m…
Journalism and Society
This is a major new statement on the role of journalism in democracy from one of media and communication's leading thinkers. Denis McQuail leads the reader through a systematic exploration of how and why journalism and society have become so inextricably entwined and - as importantly - what this relationship should be like. It is a strong re-statement of the fundamental values that journalism aspires to." -- Publisher website
Diversity as a Media Policy Goal: A Strategy for Evaluative Research and a Netherlands Case Study
Sociology of Mass Communications: Selected Readings
The Making of a Television Series: A Case Study in the Sociology of Culture
Accountability of Media to Society: Principles and Means
Developments in technology, deregulation and increased commercialization have combined to pose a threat to established ways of relating the activities and aspirations of mass media to the `needs of society'. At the core of the problem is the dilemma of reconciling media freedom with legitimate claims and expectations from private and public interests, under fundamentally changing conditions. This article considers some basic principles of the acc…
Caging the Beast: Constructing a Framework for the Analysis of Media Change in Western Europe
The causes which underlie current changes in European media systems are numerous and complex and present alternative possibilities for interpretation and for research directions. This article examines some of the alternatives and chooses to place an emphasis on the factors of external pressure and internal conflict. Commerce provides the main driving force for change, but the outcome will depend on a balance of forces, which include the wishes of…
Uncertainty about the Audience and the Organization of Mass Communications
General Mass Communication
THE KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY 200: 1983 EDITION—AMERICA'S TWO HUNDRED LARGEST MEDIA AND INFORMATION COMPANIES (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1983---price not given, paper; with hardback edition available from Gale Research Co., Detroit---$98.00) MASS COMMUNICATION THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION by Denis McQuail (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1983---$25.00/$12.50) CREATING MEDIA CULTURE by Robert P. Snow (Beverly Hills, Calif.…
On the Mediatization of War: A Review Article
Television and Politics; Its Uses and Influence
Elite Education and Political Values
Publication in a free society: The Problem of Accountability
Whether or not we are truly experiencing a communications revolution or entering a new 'information age', there are certainly major changes under way that are disturbing settled institutions of the press and media
The Media and Lifestyle: Editor's Introduction
Media Performance Assessment in the Public Interest: Principles and Methods
This chapter offers a characterization and an overview of a particular tradition of media research that has been concerned with the assessment of the quality of mass media “performance” according to a number of normative standards relating to different conceptions and perceptions of the “public interest.” Typical features of the research, which has often been related to considerations of media policy and is broadly in line with “social responsibi…
The Role of Communications in the Middle East Conflict: Ideological and Religious Aspects
Television and the Political Image. A Study of the Impact of Television on the 1959 General Election
British Broadcasting — Its Purposes, Structure, and Control
Uncertainty about the Audience and the Organization of Mass Communications
Elite Education and Political Values
Television in Politics: Its Uses and Influences
Television and Politics; Its Uses and Influence
The Making of a Television Series: A Case Study in the Sociology of Culture
Sociology of Mass Communications: Selected Readings
Sociología de los medios masivos de comunicación
The Role of Communications in the Middle East Conflict: Ideological and Religious Aspects
Communication
Bad News
Diversity as a Media Policy Goal: A Strategy for Evaluative Research and a Netherlands Case Study
General Mass Communication
THE KNOWLEDGE INDUSTRY 200: 1983 EDITION—AMERICA'S TWO HUNDRED LARGEST MEDIA AND INFORMATION COMPANIES (White Plains, N.Y.: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1983---price not given, paper; with hardback edition available from Gale Research Co., Detroit---$98.00) MASS COMMUNICATION THEORY: AN INTRODUCTION by Denis McQuail (Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1983---$25.00/$12.50) CREATING MEDIA CULTURE by Robert P. Snow (Beverly Hills, Calif.…
With the benefit of hindsight: Reflections on uses and gratifications research
Uses and gratifications research has had a history of over forty years, and shows continued signs of lively activity, despite a good deal of criticism and some disappointment amongst its own practitioners. This article, written from a position within, or close to, the tradition, expresses some regret at the failure to deal adequately with questions of “culture gaps” and “knowledge gaps.” It suggests that the failure lies partly in the dominance o…
Broadcasting European elections
Sociology of Mass Communication
Mass communication has always been an object of interdisciplinary study, but it is currently gaining a greater degree of autonomy. The paradigm that is emerging has probably been more influenced by sociology than by any other discipline. This review deals with literature, mainly published during the last five years, chosen according to the significance or representativeness of the main themes. Among thesc is media theory, where the field has prov…
Communication
New Media Politics: Comparative Perspectives in Western Europe
Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 1983
A unique mixture of academic research, professional experience and personal reflection, Political Communications examines the crucial dialogue between politicians and people that is conducted, via the Press, broadcasting and opinion polls, during the course of a British election campaign. Scholarly analysis is complemented by the contributions of individual experts from advertising agencies, polling organisations and political parties: among the …
Caging the Beast: Constructing a Framework for the Analysis of Media Change in Western Europe
The causes which underlie current changes in European media systems are numerous and complex and present alternative possibilities for interpretation and for research directions. This article examines some of the alternatives and chooses to place an emphasis on the factors of external pressure and internal conflict. Commerce provides the main driving force for change, but the outcome will depend on a balance of forces, which include the wishes of…
Media Performance Assessment in the Public Interest: Principles and Methods
This chapter offers a characterization and an overview of a particular tradition of media research that has been concerned with the assessment of the quality of mass media “performance” according to a number of normative standards relating to different conceptions and perceptions of the “public interest.” Typical features of the research, which has often been related to considerations of media policy and is broadly in line with “social responsibi…
Media Performance: Mass Communication and the Public Interest
Audience Analysis
Policy Help Wanted: Willing and Able Media Culturalists Please Apply
Sociology (29 works) · Political science (27 works) · Media Studies and Communication (19 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Media studies (14 works) · Politics (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Public relations (9 works)