Listening Beyond the Echoes: Media, Ethics, and Agency in an Uncertain World

by Nick Couldry

Book Overview

In this book Nick Couldry, media and cultural theorist from the London School of Economics, asks what are the priorities for media and cultural research today - at a time of the intensified mediation of all fields of social life, threats to democratic legitimacy, and serious instability on the global political stage. The book calls for a "decentered" media research that rejects easy assumptions about media's role in holding societies together and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594512361
• ISBN13: 9781594512360
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"