Media and Social Theory Hesmondhalgh David University of Leeds UK
Media and Social Theory Hesmondhalgh David University of Leeds UK Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources. Case studies range from reality television to professional…
Specifikacia Media and Social Theory Hesmondhalgh David University of Leeds UK
Media and Social Theory Hesmondhalgh David University of Leeds UK
Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources. Case studies range from reality television to professional journalism, from blogging to control of copyright, from social networking sites to indigenous media, in Europe, North America, Asia and elsewhere. This book brings together major and emerging international media analysts to consider key processes of media change, using a number of critical perspectives.
Among the theoretical approaches and issues addressed are:critical realismpost-structuralist approaches to media and culturePierre Bourdieu and field theorypublic sphere theory - including post-Habermasian versionsactor network theoryMarxist and post-Marxist theories, including contemporary critical theorytheories of democracy, antagonism and difference.