Media sociology : A reappraisal
Edited by Silvio Waisbord
- Kolkata Rawat Publications c2014
- vi, 298 H.B
Introduction: Reappraising Media Sociology
Part I: Media, Institutions, and Politics • Strategy Follows Structure: A Media Sociology Manifesto • Linking Media Sociology to Political Development in Trans-Legislative Democracies • Back to the Future? The Sociology of News and Journalism from Black and White to the Digital Age
Part II: Media Industries and Audiences • Agency, Social Interaction, and Audience Studies • Media Industry Sociology: Mainstream, Critical, and Cultural Perspectives • The Political Economy of Media Work and Watchin
Part III: Media representations • When Media Representation Met Sociology • Too Little But Not Too Late: Sociological Contributions to Feminist Media Studies • Media Sociology and the Study of Race
Part IV: Digital Technologies, Self, and Society • Digital Media Technology and the Spirit of the New Capitalism: What Future for “Aesthetic Critique”? • Mobile Communication and Mediated Interpersonal Communication • Sociology and the Socially Mediated Self