ISBN:
9780415588812
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 384 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in sociology 52
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Information technology Social aspects
;
Critical theory
;
Mass media
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Information society
;
Information technology - Social aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society, as well as introducing the theoretical and empirical tools necessary for the critical study of media and information. Christian Fuchs shows the role classical critical theory can play for analyzing the information society and the information economy, as well as analyzing the role of the media and the information economy in economic development, the new imperialism, and the new economic crisis. The book crit
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Foundations of CriticalMedia and InformationStudies; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; 1. Introduction; PART I: Theory; 2. Critical theory today; 2.1 What is critical theory?; 2.2 The problem of immanence and transcendence in critical theory; 2.2.1 The positivist notion of critique; 2.2.2 The postmodern notion of critique; 2.2.3 Critical theory as immanent transcendence; 2.3 The debate on redistribution and recognition: the problem of base and superstructure in critical theory
Description / Table of Contents:
2.3.1 Fraser and Honneth: the debate on redistribution and recognition as a reframing of the problem of base and superstructure in critical theory2.3.2 Base and superstructure reconsidered: towards a dialectical model of society and a dialectic-materialistic moral philosophy; 2.4 Dialectical philosophy and critical theory; 2.4.1 Dialectical thinking as ideology; 2.4.2 Negative dialectics: Adorno and Bhaskar; 2.4.3 Marcuse, Bloch and beyond: the subject-object dialectic; 2.5 Conclusion; 3. Critical media and information studies; 3.1 Information science and media and communication studies
Description / Table of Contents:
3.2 Critical media, communication and information studies3.3 Dialectical philosophy and critical media and information studies; 3.4 Information society theory and informational capitalism; 3.5 Conclusion; 4. Karl Marx and critical media and information studies; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Marxian circuit of capital; 4.3 Karl Marx on media and communication; 4.3.1 The role of the media in commodity production; 4.3.1.1 Media technology as technology of rationalization; 4.3.1.2 The specific process of capital concentration and centralization in the realm of the media
Description / Table of Contents:
4.3.1.3 The specific role of media capital in the production of media contents4.3.1.4 The general role of the media in intra-organizational corporate communication; 4.3.1.5 The general role of the media in the globalization of capitalism; 4.3.2 The role of the media in commodity circulation; 4.3.2.1 The specific function of media infrastructure capital in the accumulation by transmitting media contents; 4.3.2.2 The media as carriers of advertising messages that advance commodity sales; 4.3.2.3 The general role of the media in reducing the circulation and turnover time of capital
Description / Table of Contents:
4.3.2.4 Media and the globalization of world trade4.3.2.5 The spatial centralization of capital by means of transportation and communication; 4.3.3 Media and ideology; 4.3.4 Alternative roles of the media; 4.4 Conclusion; PART II: Case studies; 5. The media and information economy and the new imperialism; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Theories of new imperialism and global capitalism; 5.3 An empirical analysis of the new imperialism; 5.3.1 The concentration of capital; 5.3.2 The dominance of finance capital; 5.3.3 The importance of capital export
Description / Table of Contents:
5.3.4 The economic division of the world among big corporations
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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