Combining a critical survey of the field with a finely judged assessment of cutting-edge developments, this book is the 'must have' text for any undergraduate student studying media and communication studies.
- As digital media come to saturate more and more of our societies, what benefits and challenges do they bring?
- Who holds power in contemporary media industries, and do they have our best interests at heart?
- What role do media play in our cultural identities and the relations between communities?
- How much control do media users have over the role of platforms, algorithms and data in their lives?
Media increasingly dominate our social and cultural worlds, affecting issues of power, politics, knowledge, identity, and everyday life. But what are the implications of the mediatisation of contemporary life, and how should we make sense of it?
In this fully updated and revised edition of his bestselling textbook, Paul Hodkinson explores the social and cultural significance of media in the age of digital platforms. Encompassing media technologies, industries, texts and users, and combining coverage of classic theories with extensive new material on platforms, social media, datafication and more, this book will equip you to navigate the fast-moving field of media and communication studies. Media, Culture and Society provides an essential overview for students studying introductory media modules, as well as depth for those further into their media degree.
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This excellent book achieves the impressive task of reviewing a century of scholarship while remaining finely attuned to the latest developments from TikTok to ChatGPT and beyond. A magnificent introduction to media and communication studies that should be a required textbook for anyone engaging with our field. -- Axel Bruns In his beautifully balanced and broad-ranging account of a fast-changing field, Paul Hodkinson has successfully brought together myriad perspectives with which to critically analyse todays media culture and media society, skilfully integrating theory from earlier times with the latest insights and problems. -- Sonia Livingstone
Chapter 1: Introduction: From Representation to Mediatisation
PART ONE: ELEMENTS OF MEDIA
Chapter 2: Media Technologies
Chapter 3: Media Industries
Chapter 4: Media Content
Chapter 5: Media Users
PART TWO: MEDIA, POWER AND CONTROL
Chapter 6: Media as Manipulation? Marxism, Ideology and Exploitation
Chapter 7: The Construction of News
Chapter 8: Media Purpose and Control
Chapter 9: Advertising
Chapter 10: Media, Democracy and the Public Sphere
PART THREE: MEDIA, IDENTITY AND CULTURE
Chapter 11: Media, Community and Individualisation
Chapter 12: Media, Race and Ethnicity
Chapter 13: Mediated Gender
Chapter 14: The Mediation of Everything
Paul Hodkinson is a sociologist whose work is focused upon youth cultures, online communications and on the relationships between media and cultural identities. He has conducted extensive research on goth subculture and is author of Goth. Identity, Style and Subculture (2002, Oxford: Berg). He is also co-editor of Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes (2007, London: Routledge).
He is currently researching young peoples use of online communications - notably through social networking sites. He is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. He joined the department of sociology in August 2003. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at University College Northampton and prior to that, he studied at the University of Birmingham at undergraduate and postgraduate level.
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