Media/Theory: Thinking about Media and Communications

Media/Theoryis an accessible yet challenging guide to thinking about media and communications in modern life. Shaun Moores connects the analysis of media and communications with key themes in contemporary social theory:Time; Space; Relationships; Meanings; and Experiences. He insists that media studies are not simply about studying media. Rather, they require an understanding of how technologically mediated communication is bound up with wider processes in the modern world, from the reproduction of social life on an everyday basis to the reorganization of social relations on a global scale. Drawing on ideas from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences,Media/Theorymakes a distinctive contribution towards rethinking the shape and direction of media studies today.

Shaun Moores is Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne.