Key Concepts in Media and Communications
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Key Concepts in Media and Communications

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Key Concepts in Media and Communications

About this book

"A sprightly, critical and intelligent guided tour around the mansion of media and communications/cultural research... enormously useful for students and researchers."
- James Curran, Goldsmiths, University of London

"A highly comprehensive guide to core concepts in media theory and criticism."
- Andrew Goodwin, University of San Francisco

"A great resource for new under-grads and something I urge my students to buy and use as a hand first ?port of call? throughout their studies."
- Paul Smith, De Montfort University

This book covers the key concepts central to understanding recent developments in media and communications studies. Wide-ranging in scope and accessible in style it sets out a useful, clear map of the important theories, methods and debates.

The entries critically explore the limits of a key concept as much as the traditions that define it. They include clear definitions, are introduced within the wider context of the field and each one:

  • is fully cross-referenced
  • is appropriately illustrated with examples, tables and diagrams
  • provides a guide to further reading.

This book is an essential resource for students of media and communications across sociology, cultural studies, creative industries and of course, media and communications courses.

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INDEX

actant 221
active audience 9, 12, 22, 44, 73, 77, 116–17, 118, 120, 176, 177, 183, 186, 207
Actor Network Theory (ANT) 221
administrative research ix, 8, 24, 26, 35, 52, 98, 132, 136–8, 151
Adorno, Theodor W. ix, 18, 35, 36, 38, 39, 47, 49–53, 91, 97, 98, 103–4, 131, 137, 138, 151, 154, 183, 221
aesthetic, 137, 143, 149–154, 173, 175, 177–81, 188, 190, 193, 208, 226
affordance 111, 221, 222
agenda-setting 166, 170
Alexander, Jeffrey C. (79), 99, 105, 118–9, 120, 188
Althusser, Louis 2, 3, 6, 19, 66–7, 78, 94, 96, 97, 98, 100, 101, 104–5, 107, 108, 109, 157, 175, 199, 200, see also Ideological State Apparatus (ISA), interpellation
analogue 30, 31, 62, 63, 64, 65, 72.
anonymity 106, 110, 129
anthropology 1, 25, 42, 46, 57, 193, 197, 199, 204–5
architectures (of communications) 24, 72
artisanal relations of production 18, 47, 48–9, 50–1
audience communities, community 9, 10–11
authoritarian populism 170, 174–5(defined),
avant-garde 37–8, 47, 51, 86–7, 152, 153–4, 199
avatar 106, 11...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of abbreviations
  8. Articulation
  9. Audience
  10. Broadcasting
  11. Capitalism
  12. Communication(s)
  13. Convergence
  14. Criticism/critique
  15. Cultural form
  16. Culture
  17. Culture industry
  18. Cyberculture
  19. Deconstruction
  20. Digital
  21. Discourse
  22. Embodiment
  23. Encoding/decoding
  24. Freedom of communication
  25. Genre
  26. Globalization
  27. Hegemony
  28. Ideology
  29. Identity
  30. Image
  31. Influence
  32. Information society
  33. Interactivity
  34. Mass
  35. Media effects
  36. Media/medium
  37. Mobile privatization
  38. Modern
  39. Moral panic
  40. Network (society)
  41. News values
  42. Popular/populist
  43. Postmodernism
  44. Public sphere
  45. Regulation
  46. Ritual
  47. Sign
  48. Simulacra
  49. Tabloidization
  50. Technoculture
  51. Technological determinism
  52. Time–space compression
  53. References
  54. Index