Listening Beyond the Echoes: Media, Ethics, and Agency in an Uncertain WorldIn this book Nick Couldry, media and cultural theorist from the London School of Economics, asks what are the priorities for media and cultural research today - at a time of the intensified mediation of all fields of social life, threats to democratic legitimacy, and serious instability on the global political stage. The book calls for a "decentered" media research that rejects easy assumptions about media's role in holding societies together and instead looks more critically at the difference media make on the ground to the material conditions of our lives. In what detailed ways do media transform knowledge and agency in daily life? How do media contribute to the culture of democratic politics? And, most difficult of all, how can we live, ethically, with and through media? Couldry's previous work is well known for its breadth, ranging across media sociology, media theory and cultural theory. Here he draws also on political theory and ethics to develop a tightly-argued account of how media and cultural research must now reorient itself if it is to remain relevant and critical. Nick Couldry is Reader in Media, Communications and Culture at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author or editor of five books including Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (Routledge 2003), The Place of Media Power (Routledge 2000) and (coedited with James Curran) Contesting Media Power (Rowman and Littlefield 2003). |
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... concern : a concern to hear the range of voices that characterize the social terrain , and not reduce their complexity . But this concern overlaps with cultural studies ' " politics " : 3 its aim of responsibly accounting for others in ...
... concern : a concern to hear the range of voices that characterize the social terrain , and not reduce their complexity . But this concern overlaps with cultural studies ' " politics " : 3 its aim of responsibly accounting for others in ...
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... concern for the future of democratic politics , but we knew that as researchers we should avoid assuming we knew better than anyone else where and even whether politics has a future . " Where , " because as Larry Grossberg argued in his ...
... concern for the future of democratic politics , but we knew that as researchers we should avoid assuming we knew better than anyone else where and even whether politics has a future . " Where , " because as Larry Grossberg argued in his ...
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... concern . But that is not the issue , any more than it would be sufficient , in a country where debate about politicians ' ethics was discouraged , to argue that politicians themselves often agonize about the ethics of what they do ...
... concern . But that is not the issue , any more than it would be sufficient , in a country where debate about politicians ' ethics was discouraged , to argue that politicians themselves often agonize about the ethics of what they do ...
Contents
Social Order | 11 |
Theorizing Media as Practice | 33 |
The Promise of Cultural Studies | 51 |
Copyright | |
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