Consuming Media: Communication, Shopping and Everyday Life

by Erling Bjurstrom, Karin Becker, Johan Fornas, et al.

Inspired by Walter Benjamin's classical Arcades Project, Consuming Media is a pioneering exploration of the interface between communication, shopping and everyday life. Based on a six-year study by over a dozen scholars on a specific site, it analyses the links between power, media and consumption in contemporary urban culture.Illustrated with rich ethnographic detail, Consuming Media scrutinizes four main media circuits - print media, media images,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845207599
• ISBN13: 9781845207595
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.7"