Communicating unreality modern media and the reconstruction of reality - Weimann, Gabriel (Sage Publications, 2000)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-425) and index
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
"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."--BOOK JACKET.