The Media and Social Theory

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ISBN: 9780415447997 | 0415447992
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/25/2008

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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.

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Why media studies needs better social theory	p. 1
Power and democracy	p. 25
Media and the paradoxes of pluralism	p. 27
Neoliberalism, social movements and change in media systems in the late twentieth century	p. 43
Recognition and the renewal of ideology critique	p. 59
Cosmopolitan temptations, communicative spaces and the European Union	p. 75
Spatial inequalities	p. 93
Neoliberalism, imperialism and the media	p. 95
A contemporary Persian letter and its global purloining: The shifting spatialities of contemporary communication	p. 112
Rethinking the Digital Age	p. 127
Media and mobility in a transnational world	p. 145
Spectacle and the self	p. 159
Form and power in an age of continuous spectacle	p. 161
Spectacular morality: 'Reality' television, individualisation and the remaking of the working class	p. 177
Variations on the branded self: Theme, invention, improvisation and inventory	p. 194
Media labour and production	p. 211
'Step away from the croissant': Media Studies 3.0	p. 213
Sex and drugs and bait and switch: Rockumentary and the new model worker	p. 231
Journalism: Expertise, authority, and power in democratic life	p. 248
Media making and social reality	p. 265
Index	p. 280
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