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The mediated construction of reality : society, culture, mediatization / Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Couldry, Nick, author.
- Hepp, Andreas, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--Social aspects.
- Mass media.
- Mass media and culture.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 290 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world is constructed in and through media.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The social world as communicative construction
- History as waves of mediatization
- How we live with media
- Space
- Time
- Data
- Self
- Collectivities
- Order
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Couldry, Nick, author. Mediated construction of reality.
- ISBN:
- 9780745681306
- 0745681301
- 9780745681313
- 074568131X
- OCLC:
- 947190941
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