Communicating unreality : modern media and the reconstruction of reality
"Communicating Unreality reviews the images and meanings of our mass-mediated world. With careful attention to the integration of news and entertainment, fact and fiction, and event and story, author Gabriel Weimann examines our symbolic environment, in which reality and fiction are almost inseparable. Through discussion of mass-mediated images of people, cultures, war, love, sex, death, community and identity, we learn that there often exists a large gap between reality and reconstruction of "realities" as communicated by the mass media."--Jacket
1 online resource (xiii, 441 pages)
9781452263540, 145226354X
808377041
Living in a mediated world
The debate over media effects
Cultivation and mainstreaming
The psychology of cultivation
The mean and scary world
Sex and sexuality
Death and suicide
The world according to MTV
Portrayal of groups
Images of America
The unreal war
Virtual reality: virtual or real?
Communicating unreality
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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