Nicholas Stevenson

Understanding Media Cultures

Social Theory and Mass Communication

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Second Edition of this bestselling text provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which social theory has attempted to theorize the importance of the media in contemporary society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications UK
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780761973621
• ISBN-10: 0761973621
• Artikelnr.: 21390404

Autorenporträt

Nick Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Marxism and Mass Communication Research
Habermas, Mass Culture and the Public Sphere
Critical Perspectives within Audience Research
Marshall McLuhan and the Cultural Medium
Baudrillard¿s Blizzards
New Media and the Information Society
Conclusion

Rezensionen

Praise for the First Edition: `Those interested in understanding contemporary debates over the media should find this book to be extremely valuable' - Douglas Kellner, University of Texas at Austin `I can't think of a book in media studies that handles so well the diversity of perspectives and issues that Stevenson addresses. Whether reconstructing Marxism or deconstructing postmodernism, tackling the pleasures of soap opera or the repetitive structures of daily news presentation, Stevenson is always clear and insightful' - Sociology