The 'eventization' of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and appreciation of popular media texts. 'Media Events' gives readers an understanding of the major debates in this high-profile area of media and cultural research.
The 'eventization' of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and appreciation of popular media texts. 'Media Events' gives readers an u...
"This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world-the media event. The authors challenge the construct, extend its usefulness, expand its theoretical basis and application, and examine media events in a far larger and richer context than ever before. Students of global media today are well served by this superb collection of essays."
David Morgan, Duke University, USA
"A welcome and worthy successor to Dayan and Katz's path-breaking study that expands and enriches the discourse on...
"This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world-the media event....
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply.
Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinking social theory have been neglected; never before has it been more important to understand those implications. This book takes on this challenge.
Drawing on Couldry's fifteen years of work on media...
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as ...
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply.
Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinking social theory have been neglected; never before has it been more important to understand those implications. This book takes on this challenge.
Drawing on Couldry's fifteen years of work on media...
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as ...
This collection of essays, the first book-length treatment of its kind, explicates the concept of -media interventions-, which are herein defined as activities and projects that secure, exercise, challenge or acquire media power for tactical and strategic action. Drawing on insights from media, communication and cultural studies, contributors offer penetrating analyses of media interventions in a variety of social, political, and cultural settings from culture jamming and DIY media to public relations campaigns and reality television shows. In doing so, the volume develops an analytical...
This collection of essays, the first book-length treatment of its kind, explicates the concept of -media interventions-, which are herein defined as a...
Democracy is based on the belief that themedia gets the attention of voters. But is this plausible in an age of multiplying media, disillusionment with the political system and time-scarcity? This book addresses this question, and charts experiences of 'public connection'."
Democracy is based on the belief that themedia gets the attention of voters. But is this plausible in an age of multiplying media, disillusionment wit...
Ethics of Media reopens the question of media ethics. Taking an exploratory rather than prescriptive approach, an esteemed collection of contributors tackle the diverse areas of moral questioning at work within various broadcasting practices, accommodating the plurality and complexity of present-day ethical challenges posed by the world of media.
Ethics of Media reopens the question of media ethics. Taking an exploratory rather than prescriptive approach, an esteemed collection of contributors ...
Media Space explores the importance of ideas of space and place to understanding the ways in which we experience the media in our everyday lives. Essays from leading international scholars address the kinds of space created by media and the effects that spacial arrangements have on media forms. Case studies focus on a wide variety of subjects and locales, from in-flight entertainment to mobile media such as personal stereos and mobile phones, and from the electronic spaces of the Internet to the shopping mall.
Media Space explores the importance of ideas of space and place to understanding the ways in which we experience the media in our everyday li...
An impassioned manifesto for how 'voice' might be used to counter neo-liberal ideologies in the future, from a star name in the field of media, communication and cultural studies
An impassioned manifesto for how 'voice' might be used to counter neo-liberal ideologies in the future, from a star name in the field of media, commun...
