The Media and Social Theory

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-44800-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Reihe: CRESC

Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources. This book brings together major and emerging international media analysts to consider key processes of media change, using a number of critical perspectives. Case studies range from reality television to professional journalism, from blogging to control of copyright, from social networking sites to indigenous media, in Europe, North America, Asia and elsewhere. Among the theoretical approaches and issues addressed are:

- critical realism

- post-structuralist approaches to media and culture

- Pierre Bourdieu and field theory

- public sphere theory – including post-Habermasian versions

- actor network theory

- Marxist and post-Marxist theories, including contemporary critical theory

- theories of democracy, antagonism and difference.

This volume is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers of cultural studies, media studies and social theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hesmondhalgh, David

Toynbee, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Fernsehen & Rundfunk
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Film, Video, Foto
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medienphilosophie, Medienethik, Medienrecht
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Grafikdesign, Kommunikationsdesign
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medientheorie, Medienanalyse
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Presse & Journalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Why Media Studies Needs Better Social Theory Part 1: 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 2: Spatial Inequalities 6. Neoliberalism, Imperialism and the Media 7. One Letter, Two Presidents and a Global Audience: The Shifting Spatialities of Contemporary Communication 8. Rethinking the Digital Age 9. Media and Mobility in a Transnational World Part 3: 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 4: 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 16. Media Making and Social Reality

Über Autor(innen)

David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media and Music Industries in the Institute of Communcations Studies at the University of Leeds. His books include The Cultural Industries (2nd edition, 2007), Media Production (2006) and Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity (with Jessica Evans, 2005).
Jason Toynbee is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the Open University. His books include Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World? (2007), Analysing Media Texts (with Marie Gillespie, 2006) and Making Popular Music (2000).