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

ISBN-13: 9780198742241 / Angielski / Miękka / 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

This is the first book to start from a recognition of the new kind of polity that has developed out of the past 40 years or so in which politics and the public media are mutually embedded and government impossible without the complementary of both.

O autorze

Nicholas Garnham is Professor of Media Studies, University of Westminster