{"product_id":"news-as-entertainment-daya-thussu-9780761968788","title":"News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment","description":"Richly detailed and empirically grounded, this first book-length study of infotainment and its globalization by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon. Going beyond - both geographically and theoretically - the ′dumbing down′ discourse, largely confined to the Anglo-American media, the book argues that infotainment may have an important ideological role, a diversion in which ′soft news′ masks the hard realities of neo-liberal imperialism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daya Thussu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0761968784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780761968788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sage Publications UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.46h x 6.24w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2009 pg. 259","brand":"Daya Thussu","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065106149631,"sku":"9780761968788","price":201.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7b3a454-da8f-4e27-ba66-b7ea72fd53a7.jpg?v=1768673026","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/news-as-entertainment-daya-thussu-9780761968788","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}