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Media's Impact on Educational Policies and Practices: Political Spectacle and Social Control
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Anderson, Gary L. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2007
To understand the role of the media in schooling and school reform, it is necessary to examine how the media collude in the construction of the political spectacle, which Edelman (1988) called a meaning machine of alternative realities. The media uses spectacle to generate points of view, perceptions, anxieties, aspirations, and strategies to…
Descriptors: Ideology, Social Control, School Restructuring, Mass Media Effects