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Media Rituals: A Critical Approach

Figures and Plates Preface 1. Media Rituals: The Short and the Long Route 2. Ritual and Liminality 3. Ritual Space: Unravelling the Myth of the Centre 4. Rethinking Media Events 5. Media…

Why Voice Matters: Culture And Politics After Neoliberalism

For more than thirty years neoliberalism has declared that market functioning trumps all other social, political and economic values. In this book, Nick Couldry passionately argues for voice, the…
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Theorising media as practice

This article explores the possibility of a new paradigm of media research that understands media, not as texts or structures of production, but as practice. Drawing on recent moves towards a theory…
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Mediatization or mediation? Alternative understandings of the emergent space of digital storytelling

TLDR
The social potential of digital storytelling, and in particular its potential to contribute to the strengthening of democracy, is reviewed, suggesting that a unitary media-based logic is at work.
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Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention

Book synopsis: Governments in many countries fear voting turnout and political engagement is in terminal decline, threatening the long-term legitimacy of the democratic process. Meanwhile definitions…

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

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…
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Media meta-capital: Extending the range of Bourdieu’s field theory

This article addresses a general problem in media sociology – how to understand the media both as an internal production process and as a general frame for categorizing the social world, with…
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Conceptualizing Mediatization: Contexts, Traditions, Arguments

Why ‘mediatization’ as a topic for communication theory now? This rather ungainly word has been rising in prominence for the past decade, but many readers of this journal may still want to ask: What…
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The view from inside the 'simulacrum': visitors' tales from the set of Coronation Street.

The social significance of visits to television and film locations has been little studied. This article concentrates on Granada Studios Tour (GST) - home of the external set of Coronation Street -…
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Inside Culture: Re-imagining the Method of Cultural Studies

General Introduction - Paul du Gay, Jessica Evans and Peter Redman PART ONE: THE SUBJECT OF LANGUAGE, IDEOLOGY AND DISCOURSE Introduction - Peter Redman Who Needs 'Identity'? - Stuart Hall Ideology…
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