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Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice
Nick Couldry
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Description for Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice
Paperback. Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: JFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. 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 ... Read more
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
242
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
551g
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745639215
SKU
V9780745639215
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About Nick Couldry
Nick Couldry is professor of media and communications at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Reviews for Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice
Winner of the Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title In his new and refreshingly ambitious book on media and social theory, Nick Couldry attempts to map out the rough contours of our new media world and give us some direction... The book throughout is marked by an ethical seriousness, and a careful attention to empirical work, and Couldry's ability ... Read more