Couldry, Nick
Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice
Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinking social theory have been neglected; never before has it been more important to understand those implications. This book takes on this challenge.
Drawing on Couldry's fifteen years of work on media and social theory, this book explores how questions of power and ritual, capital and social order, and the conduct of political struggle, professional competition, and everyday life, are all transformed by today's complex combinations of traditional and 'new' media. In the concluding chapters Couldry develops a framework for global comparative research into media and for thinking collectively about the ethics and justice of our lives with media. The result is a book that is both a major intervention in the field and required reading for all students of media and sociology.
Keywords: Sociology of the Media, Digital media, digital platforms, social theory, media theory
- Author(s)
- Couldry, Nick
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2012
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 272 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9780745680767
- Printed ISBN
- 9780745639215