Media studies needs more critical intellectual resources. This book brings together both major and emerging media analysts to consider media change and so deepen these resources. Case studies range from reality television to professional journalism, from blogging to control of copyright, from social networking to indigenous media in Europe, North America, Asia and elsewhere. Among the theoretical approaches and issues addressed are: - critical realism - poststructuralist perspectives - Bourdieu and field theory - Marxism and post-Marxism - Habermas and third generation critical theory - actor network theory - theories of democracy, antagonism and differenc
This editorial responds to a professionalization and constrained notion of “critical theory” to argu...
This popular introductory book provides a clear introduction to the key ideas within media studies. ...
How the media are organised and funded is central to understanding their role in society. Critical P...
Media studies has lost contact with social theory since the emergence of the field in the 1970s. Thi...
For several years now the sociological debate has being sharing the perception of an internal crisis...
In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practi...
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, me...
Innovation is about change, and media products and services are changing. The processes of productio...
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey o...
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, me...
Media research often feels behind the times. More than most other humanities disciplines, media stud...
This editorial introduces a thematic issue on "Rethinking Media and Social Space". By critically ret...
Drawing upon a range of theoretical perspectives, including cultural studies, postcolonial theory, c...
Media studies needs to engage own theoretical base and methodology to dissect and critique the curre...
As the term circulates in current debates within Communication Studies, "critical " may be...
This editorial responds to a professionalization and constrained notion of “critical theory” to argu...
This popular introductory book provides a clear introduction to the key ideas within media studies. ...
How the media are organised and funded is central to understanding their role in society. Critical P...
Media studies has lost contact with social theory since the emergence of the field in the 1970s. Thi...
For several years now the sociological debate has being sharing the perception of an internal crisis...
In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practi...
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, me...
Innovation is about change, and media products and services are changing. The processes of productio...
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory is the most comprehensive available survey o...
Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, me...
Media research often feels behind the times. More than most other humanities disciplines, media stud...
This editorial introduces a thematic issue on "Rethinking Media and Social Space". By critically ret...
Drawing upon a range of theoretical perspectives, including cultural studies, postcolonial theory, c...
Media studies needs to engage own theoretical base and methodology to dissect and critique the curre...
As the term circulates in current debates within Communication Studies, "critical " may be...
This editorial responds to a professionalization and constrained notion of “critical theory” to argu...
This popular introductory book provides a clear introduction to the key ideas within media studies. ...
How the media are organised and funded is central to understanding their role in society. Critical P...