Reality and Media Reality
- 5 June 2008
- book chapter
- Published by Wiley
Abstract
Since the earliest days of mass media, researchers, social critics, politicians, and the general public have been concerned about the extent to which media representations reflect or deviate from “reality.” Over the years, a great deal of research and public debate have revolved around the kinds of images of the world that are created and disseminated by media, and how they compare to the “real world” as revealed by official statistics or other objective indicators (→ Media and Perceptions of Reality).Keywords
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