The Mediated Construction of Reality
Nick Couldry
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Description for The Mediated Construction of Reality
Paperback. Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 430 x 249 x 27. Weight in Grams: 456.
Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world is constructed in and through media. Drawing on Schutz, Elias and many other social and media theorists, they ask: what are the implications of digital media's profound involvement in those processes? Is the result a social world that ... Read more
Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world is constructed in and through media. Drawing on Schutz, Elias and many other social and media theorists, they ask: what are the implications of digital media's profound involvement in those processes? Is the result a social world that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745681313
SKU
V9780745681313
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Ref
99-3
About Nick Couldry
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science Andreas Hepp is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen.
Reviews for The Mediated Construction of Reality
This book by Couldry and Hepp might well become a new classic in the theory of the social, on par with Elias and Latour. Theorizing the mediated construction of reality, the authors sketch the new contours of 'a space where order is at stake.' Mandatory reading for everyone who seriously reflects on the implications of contemporary media systems and practices ... Read more