Author Description

This Collection Brings Together Media Analysts To Consider Key Processes Of Media Change, Using A Number Of Critical Perspectives. The Editors Present A Range Of Theoretical Viewpoints And Approaches, Applied To A Broad Variety Of Case Studies, From Reality Television To The Bbc World Service, Blogging To Copyright Control. Why Media Studies Needs Better Social Theory / David Hesmondhalgh, Jason Toynbee -- Power And Democracy. Media And The Paradoxes Of Pluralism / Kari Karppinen -- Neoliberalism, Social Movements And Change In Media Systems In The Late Twentieth Century / Daniel C. Hallin -- Recognition And The Renewal Of Ideology Critique / John Downey -- Cosmopolitan Temptations, Communicative Spaces And The European Union / Philip Schlesinger -- Spatial Inequalities. Neoliberalism, Imperialism And The Media / David Hesmondhalgh -- Contemporary Persian Letter And Its Global Purloining: The Shifting Spatialities Of Contemporary Communication / Annabelle Sreberny -- Rethinking The Digital Age / Faye Ginsburg -- Media And Mobility In A Transnational World / Purnima Mankekar -- Spectacle And The Self. Form And Power In An Age Of Continuous Spectacle / Nick Couldry -- Spectacular Morality: 'reality' Television, Individualisation And The Remaking Of The Working Class / Helen Wood, Bev Skeggs -- Variations On The Branded Self: Theme, Invention, Improvisation And Inventory / Alison Hearn -- Media Labour And Production. 'step Away From The Croissant': Media Studies 3.0 / Toby Miller -- Sex And Drugs And Bait And Switch: Rockumentary And The New Model Worker / Matt Stahl -- Journalism: Expertise, Authority, And Power In Democratic Life / Christopher Anderson -- Media Making And Social Reality / Jason Toynbee. Edited By David Hesmondhalgh And Jason Toynbee. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.