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Book SynopsisWhere is sociology in contemporary media studies? How do sociological questions and arguments shape media analysis? These are the questions addressed in this timely collection on media sociology.
Trade Review''It's high time for media sociology to be addressed once more and good to see it done in such a refreshingly questioning way. In this well-edited and valuable collection by a highly competent group of writers, the continuing relevance of sociological thinking for media in the digital age is signalled and some essential terrain marked out afresh.''
Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow
''Although sociology and sociological theory lay at the foundation of the study of media, they have been largely displaced by narrow public opinion and psychological approaches. This anthology reestablishes the importance of media sociology, with its focus grounded in the fundamental concepts of structure, institutions, and power. A significant contribution and a good read.''
Robert Horwitz, University of California San Diego
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Reappraising Media Sociology
Silvio Waisbord
Part I Media, Institutions, and Politics
1 Strategy Follows Structure: A Media Sociology Manifesto
Rodney Benson
2 Linking Media Sociology to Political Development in Trans-Legislative Democracies
Michael Schudson
3 Back to the Future? The Sociology of News and Journalism from Black and White to the Digital Age
Howard Tumber
Part II Media Industries and Audiences
4 Agency, Social Interaction, and Audience Studies
Richard Butsch
5 Media Industry Sociology: Mainstream, Critical, and Cultural Perspectives
Timothy Havens
6 The Political Economy of Media Work and Watching
Toby Miller
Part III Media representations
7 When Media Representation Met Sociology
Shani Orgad
8 Too Little But Not Too Late: Sociological Contributions to Feminist Media Studies
Laura Grindstaff and Andrea Press
9 Media Sociology and the Study of Race
Ronald N. Jacobs
Part IV Digital Technologies, Self, and Society
10 Digital Media Technology and the Spirit of the New Capitalism: What Future for “Aesthetic Critique”?
Graeme Kirkpatrick
11 Mobile Communication and Mediated Interpersonal Communication
Rich Ling
12 Sociology and the Socially Mediated Self
Jeff Pooley
