The Media and Social Theory Paperback / softback
Edited by David Hesmondhalgh, Jason (The Open University, UK) Toynbee
Part of the CRESC series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 realismpost-structuralist approaches to media and culturePierre Bourdieu and field theorypublic sphere theory – including post-Habermasian versionsactor 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.
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:16/05/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415448000
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:16/05/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415448000
