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Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics. Ronald V. Bettig and Jeanne Lynn Hall. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
An eminently helpful and eye-opening book, Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics by Ronald V. Bettig and Jeanne Lynn Hall, provides a timely critique of what George Gerbner aimed to confront in his organization, the Cultural Environment Movement (CEM). Emphasis here is on the texts that comprise our cultural output, worries about what is happening to our environment, and how we might find hope in movements of protest.
In terms of "mediated environment," Bettig and Hall include a range of resources: print (books, newspapers, and political cartoons but not comics and magazines), electronic (broadcast and cable television but not radio), visual media (movies but not photography), sound media (music), and telecommunications (the Internet [but not video], interactive media, telephony, and other computer connections such as...