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100 1 _aCouldry, Nick.
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245 1 0 _aMedia, society, world :
_bsocial theory and digital media practice /
_cNick Couldry.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aMalden, MA :
_bPolity,
_c2012.
300 _axii, 311 p. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-296) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: digital media and social theory -- Media as practice -- Media as ritual and social form -- Media and the hidden shaping of the social -- Network society, networked politics? -- Media and the transformation of capital and authority -- Media cultures: a world unfolding -- Media ethics, media justice.
520 8 _aMedia 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 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.
650 0 _aMass media
_xSocial aspects.
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650 0 _aCommunication
_xSocial aspects.
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650 0 _aSociology.
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