ISBN:
9780203930472
,
0203930479
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XII, 291 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Hoboken Taylor & Francis 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Culture, economy and the social
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. The media and social theory
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media Social aspects
;
Communication Social aspects
;
Massamedia
;
Sociale aspecten
;
Social theory
;
Electronic books
;
Massenmedien
;
Informationsgesellschaft
;
Medienmarkt
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Soziologie
Abstract:
This collection brings together major and emerging media analysts to consider key processes of media change, using a number of critical perspectives. The editors present a formidable range of theoretical viewpoints and approaches, applied to a broad and fascinating variety of case studies, from reality television to the BBC World Service, from blogging to control of copyright
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Why media studies needs better social theory; Part I Power and democracy; 2 Media and the paradoxes of pluralism; 3 Neoliberalism, social movements and change in media systems in the late twentieth century; 4 Recognition and the renewal of ideology critique; 5 Cosmopolitan temptations, communicative spaces and the European Union; Part II Spatial inequalities; 6 Neoliberalism, imperialism and the media; 7 A contemporary Persian letter and its global purloining: The shifting spatialities of contemporary communication
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Rethinking the Digital Age9 Media and mobility in a transnational world; Part III Spectacle and the self; 10 Form and power in an age of continuous spectacle; 11 Spectacular morality: 'Reality' television, individualisation and the remaking of the working class; 12 Variations on the branded self: Theme, invention, improvisation and inventory; Part IV Media labour and production; 13 'Step away from the croissant': Media Studies 3.0; 14 Sex and drugs and bait and switch: Rockumentary and the new model worker; 15 Journalism: Expertise, authority, and power in democratic life
Description / Table of Contents:
16 Media making and social realityIndex
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction, Boulder, Colo : NetLibrary, 2008
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
