Popular Reality is a major new study of journalism in modernity. For the first time, journalism is treated as a textual system, a "mediasphere" without which modernity's twin energies-the pursuit of freedom and comfort-could not have enjoyed their social and global reach. Hartley provides awealth of theoretical analysis and historical detail to reconceptualize the significance of modern journalism from the point of view of its greatest creation-popular readerships. | Popular Reality by John Hartley, Paperback | Indigo Chapters