The Media and Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415447997 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 312 str.

David Hesmondhalgh;Jason Toynbee

Opis

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 realis
• 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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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 (2^nd 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).