Classics in Media Theory

Classics in Media Theory
by: Stina Bengtsson (Editor),Staffan Ericson (Editor),Fredrik Stiernstedt (Editor)&0more
Publisher: Routledge
Edition: 1st
Publication Date: 2024/6/21
Language: English
Print Length: 408 pages
ISBN-10: 1032557958
ISBN-13: 9781032557953
Book Description
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.
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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. Read more