Classics in Media Theory
eBook - ePub

Classics in Media Theory

  1. 420 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Classics in Media Theory

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Classics in Media Theory by Stina Bengtsson,Staffan Ericson,Fredrik Stiernstedt in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Media Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040026540
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Endorsements
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of contributors
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Walter Benjamin (1936) “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
  11. 2. Herta Herzog (1941) ‘On Borrowed Experience’
  12. 3. Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno (1947) ‘The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception’
  13. 4. Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton (1948) ‘Mass Communication, Popular Taste and Organised Social Action’
  14. 5. Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver (1949) The Mathematical Theory of Communication
  15. 6. Erving Goffman (1959) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
  16. 7. JĂźrgen Habermas (1962) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
  17. 8. Marshall McLuhan (1967) The Medium Is the Massage
  18. 9. Michel Foucault (1971) The Order of Discourse
  19. 10. Jean Baudrillard (1971) ‘Requiem for the Media’
  20. 11. Stuart Hall (1973) ‘Encoding and Decoding’
  21. 12. Raymond Williams (1974) Television: Technology and Cultural Form
  22. 13. James Carey (1975) “A Cultural Approach to Communication”
  23. 14. Laura Mulvey (1975) ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’
  24. 15. Dallas Smythe (1977) “Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism”
  25. 16. Gaye Tuchman (1978) Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality
  26. 17. Pierre Bourdieu (1979) Distinction
  27. 18. Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (1979) The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
  28. 19. Roland Barthes (1980) Camera Lucida
  29. 20. Benedict Anderson (1983) Imagined Communities
  30. 21. Frederic Jameson (1984) ‘Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism’
  31. 22. Janice Radway (1984) Reading the Romance
  32. 23. Neil Postman (1985) Amusing Ourselves to Death
  33. 24. Friedrich Kittler (1985) Discourse Networks 1800/1900
  34. 25. Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz (1992) Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History
  35. 26. N. Katherine Hayles (1999) How We Became Posthuman
  36. 27. John Durham Peters (1999) Speaking into the Air
  37. 28. Lev Manovich (2001) The Language of New Media
  38. Index