Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change

ISBN-13: 9781138104600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str.

Ilija Tomanic Trivundza; Hannu Nieminen; Nico Carpentier

Opis

Offering a critical analysis of the media, driven by core societal values such as social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and humanity, this book investigates the media’s roles as actors of change and as protectors of the societal status-quo. This book was originally published as two special issues of Javnost – The Public.

Spis treści

Part I: Communication power and inequality 1. Inequality and Digitally Mediated Communication: Divides, Contradictions and Consequences  2. The New Spirit of Capitalism, Innovation Fetishism and New Information and Communication Technologies  3. Inequality and Liberal Democracy: A Critical Take on Economic and Political Power Aspects  4. For Public Communication  5. Beyond the Ladder of Participation: An Analytical Toolkit for the Critical Analysis of Participatory Media Processes  Part II: Mediatisation and change  6. Explaining the Mediatisation Approach  7. Mediatisation and the Transformation of Capitalism: The Elephant in the Room  8. Changes in Contemporary Communication Ecosystems Ask for a ‘New Look’ at the Concept of Mediatisation  Part III: Media, change and regulation  9. Particularistic and Universalistic Media Policies  10. A Radical Democratic Reform of Media Regulation in Response to Three Levels of Crisis  Part IV: Critical scholarship in media and communication studies  11. Put a Ring on It! Why We Need More Commitment in Media Scholarship  12. Being (Truly) Critical in Media and Communication Studies: Reflections of a Media Scholar Between Science and Politics  13. Grounding Communication Studies in Enlightenment Criticality: Scaling Up Theoretical and Dialectical Ambition

O autorze

Ilija Tomanić Trivundža is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and President of the European Communication Research and Education Association.

Hannu Nieminen is Professor of Media and Communications Policy, and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Nico Carpentier is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. He also holds part-time positions at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.

Josef Trappel is Professor of Media Policy and Media Economics, and Head of the Department of Communication Studies, at the University of Salzburg, Austria.