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Walking the net; an exploration of alternative media as smooth space

Ruiz, Pollyanna (2008) Walking the net; an exploration of alternative media as smooth space. In: Ross, Karen and Price, Stuart, (eds.) Popular Media and Communication: Essays on Publics, Practices and Processes. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge, pp. 168-190. ISBN 9781847186263

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Abstract

This collection of essays has its origins in the MeCCSA 2007 conference held in Coventry in January that year. Like most edited volumes which emerge from conference contexts, this one comprises a richly diverse set of original papers which span the various themes and topics which together make up the fascinating field of media and communication. The book is broadly divided into four sections: media/public; media workers and professional identity; media industries and policy concerns; and political communication. The first section looks at the transformation of the private and public spheres through new technologies, and the phenomenon and implications of audience-mediated genres such as reality TV. The second part of the book looks at media practice from the point of view of both content and the self-policing of professional norms. The third part considers media policy including gender issues within the Scottish creative industries, and the history and future of the BBC charter. The last section looks a political communication and essays here are concerned with elite political rhetoric, together with a consideration of the internet’s impact on political activism. The editors believe that, within the wide-ranging subject matter our authors have considered, a common theme emerges. This is the way in which contemporary communication acts are structured by a number of closely related forces; capital, technology, social norms, resistive practices and gendered subjectivity all contribute to the production of public meaning.

Item Type: Book Section
Official URL: http://www.c-s-p.org/
Additional Information: © Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2008
Divisions: Media and Communications
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
Date Deposited: 01 Jul 2013 11:35
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 09:29
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/38471

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