Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice

by Nick Couldry

Book Overview

Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply.

Yet the implications of social theory for understanding media and of media for rethinking social theory have been neglected; never before has it been more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745639216
• ISBN13: 9780745639215
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.9" x 5.9"