Beyond Control

A Mutual Respect Approach to Protest Crowd - Police Relations

By: Shirley Paré, Vern Neufeld Redekop

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Hardcover | 1 March 2010 | Edition Number 1

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Media power is a crucial, although often taken for granted, concept. We assume, for example, that the media are "powerful"; if they were not, why would there be so many controversies over the regulation, control and impact of communicative institutions and processes? Further, we assume that this "power" is somehow problematic; audiences are often treated as highly susceptible to media influence and too much "power" in the hands of one organization or individual is seen as risky and potentially dangerous. Such concerns have motivated a whole series of academic texts on media impact, influence and effects.

Yet it is still not clear what we mean by media power or how effective it is. This book evaluates contrasting definitions of media power and looks at the key sites in which power is negotiated, concentrated and resisted - politically, technologically and economically.

Combining an evaluation of both previous literature and new research, the book seeks to establish an understanding of media power which does justice to the complexities and contradictions of the contemporary social world. It will be important reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and scholars alike.

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'What is refreshing about Beyond Control is the vision for the kind of society in which protesters and police recognize their mutual humanity as well as how both are needed for a democratic society to function well.' Archbishop Desmond Tutu (from the Foreword)

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