Chapter 1 Introduction: Listening Out for Connections; Part 1 Media, Social “Order,” Agency; Chapter 2 Decentering Media Research: Social “Order,” Knowledge, and Agency; Chapter 3 Theorizing Media as Practice; Part 2 Culture, Agency, Democracy; Chapter 4 The Promise of Cultural Studies; Chapter 5 In The Place of a Common Culture, What?; Part 3 Ethics and Media; Chapter 6 Beyond the Televised Endgame?: Reflections After 9/11; Chapter 7 Toward a Global Media Ethics; Chapter 8 Postscript;
Nick Couldry is Reader in Media, Communications and Culture at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author or editor of five books including Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (Routledge 2003), The Place of Media Power (Routledge 2000) and (coedited with James Curran) Contesting Media Power (Rowman and Littlefield 2003).
“Couldry’s background in philosophy and law is brought to bear here
to excellent effect. …Cutting through a wealth of theory and
interpretive analysis in cultural studies, political theory,
ideology, and anthropology, he holds that the most basic moral
obligation of the media is to create spaces for individuals and
groups to articulate their needs and interests unmolested by
interests of entrenched social and political power. Much of this
book is devoted to the complex ways in which this is both difficult
and necessary. More importantly, as this book so admirably
demonstrates, this project has always been, and should continue to
be, at the core of what cultural scholars spend their time
doing.”
—Popular Communication, 2008
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