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The Media and Social Theory David Hesmondhalgh

The Media and Social Theory By David Hesmondhalgh

The Media and Social Theory by David Hesmondhalgh

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This collection brings together major and emerging media analysts to consider key processes of media change, using a number of critical perspectives. The editors present a formidable range of theoretical viewpoints and approaches, applied to a broad and fascinating variety of case studies, from reality television to the BBC World Service, from blogging to control of copyright.

The Media and Social Theory Summary

The Media and Social Theory by David Hesmondhalgh

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.

    This volume is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers of cultural studies, media studies and social theory.

    The Media and Social Theory Reviews

    'At last media and social theory gets the collection of essays it deserves! This book not only maps out the field but is written by some of the most important contributors around today. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary times.' Nick Stevenson, University of Nottingham

    'This collection not only refocuses us on the overarching questions for media and cultural studies, it should renew our faith in deep and creative theorizing about the mediated societies we have and the ones we ought to have. It is a pleasure to find so many leaders and emerging voices in the field so clearly in a mood to question theoretical orthodoxies old and new.' Chad Raphael, Santa Clara University

    'Although there has been much discussion recently about the future of media studies, this collection of wonderfully insightful essays demonstrates that the future may be a great deal nearer than many had imagined. The Media and Social Theory is, therefore, with its compelling case for the importance of social theory, a "must read" volume for anyone who wishes to understand media and their analysis in the 21st century.' John Storey, University of Sunderland


    At last media and social theory gets the collection of essays it deserves! This book not only maps out the field but is written by some of the most important contributors around today. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary times.

    Nick Stevenson

    University of Nottingham

    This collection not only refocuses us on the overarching questions for media and cultural studies, it should renew our faith in deep and creative theorizing about the mediated societies we have and the ones we ought to have. It is a pleasure to find so many leaders and emerging voices in the field so clearly in a mood to question theoretical orthodoxies old and new.

    Chad Raphael

    Santa Clara University

    Although there has been much discussion recently about the future of media studies, this collection of wonderfully insightful essays demonstrates that the future may be a great deal nearer than many had imagined. The Media and Social Theory is, therefore, with its compelling case for the importance of social theory, a 'must read' volume for anyone who wishes to understand media and their analysis in the 21st century.

    John Storey

    University of Sunderland

    About David Hesmondhalgh

    David Hesmondhalgh is Professor of Media and Music Industries in the Institute of Communcations Studies at the University of Leeds. His books include The Cultural Industries (2nd edition, 2007), Media Production (2006) and Understanding Media: Inside Celebrity (with Jessica Evans, 2005). Jason Toynbee is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the Open University. His books include Bob Marley: Herald of a Postcolonial World? (2007), Analysing Media Texts (with Marie Gillespie, 2006) and Making Popular Music (2000).

    Table of Contents

    1. Why Media Studies Needs Better Social Theory Part 1: Power and Democracy 2. Media and the Paradoxes of Pluralism 3. Neoliberalism, Social Movements, and Change in Media Systems in the Late Twentieth Century 4. Recognition and the Renewal of Ideology Critique 5. Cosmopolitan Temptations, Communicative Spaces and the European Union Part 2: Spatial Inequalities 6. Neoliberalism, Imperialism and the Media 7. One Letter, Two Presidents and a Global Audience: The Shifting Spatialities of Contemporary Communication 8. Rethinking the Digital Age 9. Media and Mobility in a Transnational World Part 3: Spectacle and the Self 10. Form and Power in an Age of Continuous Spectacle 11. Spectacular Morality: Reality Television, Individualisation and the Remaking of the Working Class 12. Variations on the Branded Self: Theme, Invention, Improvisation and Inventory Part 4: Media Labour and Production 13. Step Away from the Croissant: Media Studies 3.0 14. Sex and Drugs and Bait and Switch: Rockumentary and the New Model Worker 15. Journalism: Expertise, Authority and Power in Democratic Life 16. Media Making and Social Reality

    Additional information

    NPB9780415447997
    9780415447997
    0415447992
    The Media and Social Theory by David Hesmondhalgh
    David Hesmondhalgh
    CRESC
    New
    Hardback
    Taylor & Francis Ltd
    2008-05-21
    312
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