This comprehensive collection introduces and contextualizes media studies’ most influential texts and thinkers, from early 20th century mass communication to the first stages of digital culture in the 21st century.
The volume brings together influential theories about media, mediation and communication, as well as the relationships between media, culture and society. Each chapter presents a close reading of a classic text, written by a contemporary media studies scholar. Each contributor presents a summary of this text, relates it to the traditions of ideas in media studies and highlights its contemporary relevance. The text explores the core theoretical traditions of media studies: in particular, cultural studies, mass communication research, medium theory and critical theory, helping students gain a better understanding of how media studies has developed under shifting historical conditions and giving them the tools to analyse their contemporary situation.
This is essential reading for students of media and communication and adjacent fields such as journalism studies, sociology and cultural studies.
Author Biography:
Stina Bengtsson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University. Her research covers media audiences, practices and ethics, and how people coexist with media technologies in everyday life. She has published several books and articles in journals such as Communication Theory, Media, Culture and Society and Journalism.
Staffan Ericson is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University. He has previously co-edited special sections in the International Journal of Communications and Media War and Conflict. He is currently a participant in the project A Sea of Data: Mediated Temporalities of the Baltic Sea.
Fredrik Stiernstedt is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University. His research covers media industries, media policy, media history and media trust. Recent publications include Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology (with Anne Kaun) and The Future of the Nordic Media Model: A Digital Media Welfare State? (with Peter Jakobsson and Johan Lindell).
Release date Australia
June 21st, 2024
Contributors
Edited by Fredrik Stiernstedt
Edited by Staffan Ericson
Edited by Stina Bengtsson
Pages
408
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
4 Tables, black and white
ISBN-13
9781032557960
Product ID
38433816
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