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Listening beyond the echoes: media, ethics and agency in an uncertain world

Couldry, Nick ORCID: 0000-0001-8233-3287 (2006) Listening beyond the echoes: media, ethics and agency in an uncertain world. Paradigm Publishing Company, Boulder, CO, USA. ISBN 9781594512353

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Abstract

In this book Nick Couldry, media and cultural theorist from the London School of Economics, asks what are the priorities for media and cultural research today - at a time of the intensified mediation of all fields of social life, threats to democratic legitimacy, and serious instability on the global political stage. The book calls for a "decentered" media research that rejects easy assumptions about media's role in holding societies together and instead looks more critically at the difference media make on the ground to the material conditions of our lives. In what detailed ways do media transform knowledge and agency in daily life? How do media contribute to the culture of democratic politics? And, most difficult of all, how can we live, ethically, with and through media? Couldry's previous work is well known for its breadth, ranging across media sociology, media theory and cultural theory. Here he draws also on political theory and ethics to develop a tightly-argued account of how media and cultural research must now reorient itself if it is to remain relevant and critical.

Item Type: Book
Official URL: http://www.paradigmpublishers.com/
Additional Information: © 2006 Paradigm Publishers
Divisions: Media and Communications
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting
T Technology > T Technology (General)
Date Deposited: 05 Sep 2013 15:07
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 21:43
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/52351

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