Emancipation, the Media, and Modernity ' Arguments about the Media and Social Theory '

ISBN-13: 9780198742258 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 216 str.

Nicholas Garnham

Opis

This book adopts a polemical stance. It approaches the problems raised by the media by way of a set of arguments with the two dominant paradigms now current for thinking about the media: post-modernism and Information Society theory. It argues that the media are important because they raise a set of questions that have been central to social and political theory since the Enlightenment.

Recenzje

Nicholas Garnham's new book is about moral philosophy, social theory and media analysis. Often these subjects are held to be separate. For Garnham, they are inseparable. This is certainly a major strength of this work, his work in general, and it should be emulated. To hold these subjects together in the face of increasing specialization in universities is a difficult task but one that Garnham achieves through his ability to proceed quickly, and with clarity, to what is essential in an argument. He is at home in all three subjects.

O autorze

Nicholas Garnham is Professor of Media Studies, University of Westminster