The Media Reader: Continuity and Transformation / Edition 1

by Hugh Mackay, Tim O'Sullivan

Overview

This text is an essential sourcebook of key statements about transformations in media culture. Focusing on questions of democracy, technology and culture, it provides theoretical approaches to past and present media transformations; and case studies of a range of media, both old media in new times and emerging new media.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761962502
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/22/1999
Series:	Published in association with The Open University
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.77(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Hugh Mackay is an Honorary Associate of the Faculty of Sociology at Open University

Table of Contents

PART ONE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND THE MODERN WORLD
The Media and Modernity - John Thompson
Corporate Dynamics and Broadcasting Futures - Graham Murdock
The Technology and the Society - Raymond Williams
When Old Technologies Were New - Carolyn Marvin
Implementing the Future
The Wireless Age - Patrice Flichy
Radio Broadcasting
PART TWO: UNDERSTANDING ‘TRANSFORMATIONS' IN MEDIA CULTURE
No Sense of Place - Joshua Meyrowitz
The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behaviour
Information Technology and the Myth of Abundance - Anthony Smith
What Information Society? - Frank Webster
Cultural Globalisation - John Tomlinson
Placing and Displacing the West
The Global Media in the Late 1990s - Edward Herman and Robert Mc Chesney
Popular Culture on a Global Scale - Simon During
A Challenge for Cultural Studies?
PART THREE: NEW MEDIA FOR NEW TIMES
Broadcasting is Dead. Long Live Digital Choice - Jeanette Steemers
Making Television News in the Satellite Age - Brent Mac Gregor
The Virtual Community - Howard Rheingold
Finding Connection in a Computerised World
Identity in the Age of the Internet - Sherry Turkle
The Development of Interactive Games - Leslie Haddon
PART FOUR: FUTURE PERFECT?
Reimagined Communities? New Media, New Possibilities - David Morley and Kevin Robins
The World Wide Web of Surveillance - David Lyon
The Internet and Off-World Power Flows
In the Realm of Uncertainty - Ien Ang
The Global Village and Capitalist Postmodernity
Remote Control? Politics, Technology and 'Electronic Democracy' - John Street
An Introduction to the Information Age - Manuel Castells

Editorial Reviews

"Alertness to the chaning terms of debate, familiarity with the latest scholarship and a shrewd, practical sense of what works in teaching makes this collection a very worthwhile addition to course reading lists."

John Corner

‘This book represents a valuable resource in helping students make sense of the rapid and perplexing changes in media technologies and institutions from a range of perspectives.... I shall certainly be recommending The Media Reader to my students' - Convergence

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