Classics in media theory / edited by Stina Bengtsson, Staffan Ericson and Fredrik Stiernstedt.

Other author Bengtsson, Stina, 1971- editor.
Other author Ericson, Staffan, editor.
Other author Stiernstedt, Fredrik, editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Description1 online resource (xii, 408 pages) : illustrations
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Contents Introduction / Stina Bengtsson, Staffan Ericson & Fredrik Stiernstedt -- Walter Benjamin (1936) The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction / Linus Andersson -- Herta Herzog (1941) 'On borrowed experience' / Jonas Andersson Schwarz -- Max Horkheimer & Theodor Adorno (1947) 'The culture industry: enlightenment as mass deception' / Sven-Olov Wallenstein -- Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton (1948) 'Mass communication, popular taste and organised social action' / Sven Ross -- Shannon & Weaver (1949) The mathematical theory of communication / Heike Graf -- Erving Goffman (1959) The presentation of self in everyday life / Espen Ytreberg -- Jürgen Habermas (1962) The structural transformation of the public sphere : an enquiry into a category of bourgeois society / Anne Kaun -- Marshall McLuhan (1967) The medium is the massage / Ingrid Forsler -- Michel Foucault (1971) The order of discourse / Annika Egan Sjölander -- Jean Baudrillard (1971) 'Requiem for the media' / Göran Bolin -- Stuart Hall (1973) 'Encoding and decoding' / Johan Fornäs -- Raymond Williams (1974) Television : technology and cultural form / Staffan Ericson -- James Carey (1975) A cultural approach to communication / Lars Lundgren -- Laura Mulvey (1975) 'Visual pleasure and narrative cinema' / Sofia Johansson -- Dallas Smythe (1977) 'Communications : blindspot of Western Marxism' / Fredrik Stiernstedt -- Gaye Tuchman (1978) Making news: a study in the construction of reality / Anna Roosvall -- Pierre Bourdieu (1979) Distinction / Johan Lindell -- Roland Barthes (1980) Camera lucida / Patrik Åker -- Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (1979) The printing press as an agent of change / Marie Cronqvist & Kajsa Weber -- Benedict Anderson (1983) Imagined communities / Per Ståhlberg -- Frederic Jameson (1984) 'Postmodernism, or the cultural logic of late capitalism' / Anders Burman & Magnus Rodell -- Janice Radway (1984) Reading the romance / Stina Bengtsson -- Neil Postman (1985) Amusing ourselves to death / Michael Forsman -- Friedrich Kittler (1985) Discourse networks 1800/1900 / Otto Fischer -- Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz (1992) Media events: the live broadcasting of history / Johanna Sumiala -- N. Katherine Hayles (1999) How we became posthuman (1999) / Jesper Olsson -- John Durham Peters (1999) Speaking into the air / Johan Fredrikzon -- Lev Manovich (2001) The language of new media / Peter Jakobsson.
Abstract "This comprehensive collection introduces and contextualizes media studies' most influential texts and thinkers, from early 20th century mass communication to the first stages of digital culture in the 21st century. The volume brings together influential theories about media, mediation and communication, as well as the relationships between media, culture and society. Each chapter presents a close reading of a classic text, written by a contemporary media studies scholar. Each contributor presents a summary of this text, relates it to the traditions of ideas in media studies, and highlights its contemporary relevance. The text explores the core theoretical traditions of media studies: in particular, cultural studies, mass communication research, medium theory and critical theory, helping students gain a better understanding of how media studies has developed under shifting historical conditions and giving them the tools to analyse their contemporary situation. This is essential reading for students of media and communication and adjacent fields such as journalism studies, sociology and cultural studies"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Biographical noteStina Bengtsson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Sd̲ertr̲n University. Her research covers media audiences, practices and ethics, and how people coexist with media technologies in everyday life. She has published several books and articles in journals such as Communication Theory, Media, Culture and Society and Journalism. Staffan Ericson is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Sd̲ertr̲n University. He has previously co-edited special sections in the International Journal of Communications and Media War and Conflict. He is currently a participant in the project A Sea of Data: Mediated Temporalities of the Baltic Sea. Fredrik Stiernstedt is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Sd̲ertr̲n University. His research covers media industries, media policy, media history and media trust. Recent publications include Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology (with Anne Kaun) and The Future of the Nordic Media Model: A Digital Media Welfare State? (with Peter Jakobsson and Johan Lindell).
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