Emancipation, the media, and modernity : arguments about the media and social theory / Nicholas Garnham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Garnham, Nicholas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

vii, 206 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-198) and index.

ISBN:

0198742258

019874224X

OCLC:

42953455