ISBN:
0745639216
,
9780745680767
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (99 Seiten)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Media, Society, World : Social Theory and Digital Media Practice
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinking social theory have been neglected; never before has it been more important to understand those implications. This book takes on this challenge. Drawing on Couldry's fifteen years of work on media and social theory, this book explores how questions of power and ritual, capital and social order, and the conduct of political struggle, professional competition, and everyday life, are all transformed by today's complex combinations of traditional and 'new' media. In the concluding chapters Couldry develops a framework for global comparative research into media and for thinking collectively about the ethics and justice of our lives with media. The result is a book that is both a major intervention in the field and required reading for all students of media and sociology. Nick Couldryis professor of media and communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Dedication; Title page; Copyright page; Figures and Text Boxes; Epigraph; Preface; 1 Introduction: Digital Media and Social Theory; Metaphors of media change; Towards a socially oriented media theory; The digital revolution and its uncertainties; A toolkit and some guiding principles; 2 Media as Practice; The background in media research; Practice in social theory; The varieties of media-related practice; Conclusion; 3 Media as Ritual and Social Form; Practice and social order: a key debate; Media as ritual; The flexibility of media rituals; The banalization of media events
Description / Table of Contents:
Celebrity culture4 Media and the Hidden Shaping of the Social; The distinctive nature of media power; Hidden injuries of media power; Digital media as democratization?; Media and the shaping of public discourse; Conclusion; 5 Network Society, Networked Politics?; The missing social; Digital media, politics and social transformation; New routes to public politics; 6 Media and the Transformation of Capital and Authority; The mediatization debate; Media, capital and authority; Media and the fields of politics, education, religion and art; Conclusion; 7 Media Cultures: A World Unfolding
Description / Table of Contents:
What is a media culture?Media cultures seen from the perspective of needs; Political needs; Conclusion; 8 Media Ethics, Media Justice; Paths not taken; The virtues of media practice; Media injustices; Conclusion: around the fixed point of our need . . .; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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