2015 Henry Mayer Lecture: critical media studies and the re-invention of the media

Graeme Turner

DOI:10.1177/1329878X16659549

Corpus ID: 151648889

2015 Henry Mayer Lecture: critical media studies and the re-invention of the media

@article{Turner20162015HM,
  title={2015 Henry Mayer Lecture: critical media studies and the re-invention of the media},
  author={Graeme Turner},
  journal={Media International Australia},
  year={2016},
  volume={161},
  pages={101 - 108}
}

Graeme Turner

Published 2016

Sociology

Media International Australia

This is the expanded text of the Henry Mayer Memorial Lecture presented by Graeme Turner at the University of Queensland in November 2015. In it, he outlines his argument from his book, Re-inventing the Media, before going on to draw upon that argument to present a series of issues that need to be addressed by critical media studies in the future: the challenge of a bifurcating field, the thoroughgoing commercialisation of the media, and media studies’ drift away from the interrogation of the… CONTINUE READING

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