The Media and Social Theory

includes index and biblioraphy

1 Why media studies needs better social theory DAVID HESMONDHALGH AND JASON TOYNBEE PART I Power and democracy 2 Media and the paradoxes of pluralism KARI KARPPINEN 3 Neoliberalism, social movements and change in media systems in the late twentieth century DANIEL C. HALLIN 4 Recognition and the renewal of ideology critique JOHN DOWNEY 5 Cosmopolitan temptations, communicative spaces and the European Union PHILIP SCHLESINGER PART II Spatial inequalities 6 Neoliberalism, imperialism and the media DAVID HESMONDHALGH 7 A contemporary Persian letter and its global purloining: The shifting spatialities of contemporary communication ANNABELLE SREBERNY 8 Rethinking the Digital Age 127 FAYE GINSBURG 9 Media and mobility in a transnational world 145 PURNIMA MANKEKAR PART III Spectacle and the self 159 10 Form and power in an age of continuous spectacle 161 NICK COULDRY 11 Spectacular morality: `Reality` television, individualisation and the remaking of the working class 177 HELEN WOOD AND BEV SKEGGS 12 Variations on the branded self: Theme, invention, improvisation and inventory 194 ALISON HEARN PART IV Media labour and production 211 13 `Step away from the croissant`: Media Studies 3.0 213 TOBY MILLER 14 Sex and drugs and bait and switch: Rockumentary and the new model worker 231 MATT STAHL 15 Journalism: Expertise, authority, and power in democratic life 248 CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON 16 Media making and social reality 265 JASON TOYNBEE