The media and social theory / edited by David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hesmondhalgh, David, 1963-

Toynbee, Jason.

Series:

Culture, economy and the social

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Social aspects.

Mass media.

Communication--Social aspects.

Communication.

Physical Description:

xii, 291 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

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 realism, 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.

Essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers of cultural studies, media studies and social theory.

Contents:

1 Why media studies needs better social theory / David Hesmondhalgh, Jason Toynbee 1

Part I Power and democracy 25

2 Media and the paradoxes of pluralism / Kari Karppinen 27

3 Neoliberalism, social movements and change in media systems in the late twentieth century / Daniel C. Hallin 43

4 Recognition and the renewal of ideology critique / John Downey 59

5 Cosmopolitan temptations, communicative spaces and the European Union / Philip Schlesinger 75

Part II Spatial inequalities 93

6 Neoliberalism, imperialism and the media / David Hesmondhalgh 95

7 A contemporary Persian letter and its global purloining: The shifting spatialities of contemporary communication / Annabelle Sreberny 112

8 Rethinking the Digital Age / Faye Ginsburg 127

9 Media and mobility in a transnational world / Purnima Mankekar 145

Part III Spectacle and the self 159

10 Form and power in an age of continuous spectacle / Nick Couldry 161

11 Spectacular morality: 'Reality' television, individualisation and the remaking of the working class / Helen Wood, Bev Skeggs 177

12 Variations on the branded self: Theme, invention, improvisation and inventory / Alison Hearn 194

Part IV Media labour and production 211

13 'Step away from the croissant': Media Studies 3.0 / Toby Miller 213

14 Sex and drugs and bait and switch: Rockumentary and the new model worker / Matt Stahl 231

15 Journalism: Expertise, authority, and power in democratic life / Christopher Anderson 248

16 Media making and social reality / Jason Toynbee 265.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415447997

0415447992

9780415448000

041544800X

9780203930472

0203930479

OCLC:

166361488