Reading Media Theory: Thinkers, Approaches and Contexts [2 ed.] 9781408285251, 9781138128125, 9781315832975, 2012008732

Table of contents :
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Timeline
How to use this book
Publisher’s acknowledgements
About the authors
1 Introduction
Part I Reading theory
2 What is theory?
3 What is reading?
Part II Key thinkers and schools of thought
4 Liberal press theory Reading: Mill, J.S. (1997 [1859]) ‘Of the liberty of thought and discussion’, in Bromley, M. and O’Malley, T. (eds) A Journalism Reader, London: Routledge, pp. 22–6.
5 F.R. Leavis Reading: Leavis, F.R. (1930) Mass Civilisation and Minority Culture,
Cambridge: Minority Press.
6 The Frankfurt school Reading: Horkheimer, M. and Adorno, T.W. (2002 [1944]) Dialectic of Enlightenment:
Philosophical fragments, translated by Jephcott, E., Stanford, California:
Stanford University Press. Excerpt from Chapter 4, ‘The culture industry:
enlightenment as mass deception’, pp. 94–8.
7 Harold D. Lasswell Reading: Lasswell, H.D. (1948) ‘The structure and function of communication
in society’, in Bryson, L. (ed.) The Communication of Ideas, New York:
Harper and Brothers
8 The Columbia school Reading: Lazarsfeld, P.F. and Merton, R.K. (1948) ‘Mass communication,
popular taste and organized social action’, in Bryson, L. (ed.) The
Communication of Ideas, New York: Harper and Brothers, pp. 95–118.
9 C. Wright Mills: Mass society theory Reading: Mills, C.W. (1956) ‘The mass society’, in Mills, C.W. (ed.)
The Power Elite, London: Oxford University Press, pp. 298–324.
10 The Toronto school Reading: Innis, H.A. (1951) ‘The bias of communication’, in Innis, H.A.,
The Bias of Communication, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 33–60.
11 The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies Reading: Hall, S. (1980c) ‘Encoding/Decoding’, in Culture, Media, Language:
Working papers in cultural studies, 1972–9, Hall, S., Hobson, D., Lowe, A.
and Willis, P. (eds), London: Hutchinson, pp. 128–38.
Part III Approaches to media theory
12 Political economy Reading: Herman, E.S. (1995a) ‘Media in the US political economy’, in
Downing, J., Mohammadi, A. and Sreberny-Mohammadi, A. (eds) Questioning
the Media: A critical introduction, 2nd edition, London: Sage, pp. 77–93.
13 Public sphere Reading: Habermas, J. (1974 [1964]) ‘The public sphere: an encyclopedia
article’, New German Critique 3 (1): 49–55.
14 Media effects Reading: Gauntlett, D. (2005) ‘Ten things wrong with the media “effects” model’,
Theory.org.uk: the Media Theory Site, www.theory.org.uk/tenthings.html.
15 Structuralism Reading: Todorov, T. (1990 [1978]) Genres in Discourse, translated by
Porter, C., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 27–38.
16 Feminist media theory Reading: van Zoonen, L. (1994) Feminist Media Studies, London: Sage,
pp. 11–18, 21–8.
17 Cultural theory Reading: Williams, R. (1961) The Long Revolution, Orchard Park:
Broadview Press, pp. 57–70.
18 New Media Reading: Jenkins, H. (2006) Convergence Culture: Where old and new media
collide, New York and London: New York University Press, pp. 1–10.
19 Postmodernism Reading: Baudrillard, J. (1994 [1981]) ‘The implosion of meaning in the media’, in
Simulacra and Simulation, translated by Glaser, S.F., Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, pp. 79–86.
20 The information society Reading: Webster, F. (2002) Theories of the Information Society, 2nd edition,
London: Routledge, pp. 8–21.
Part IV Media theory in context
21 Production Reading: Hesmondhalgh, D. (2007) The Cultural Industries, 2nd edition,
London: Sage, pp. 3–8.
22 Texts Reading: Barthes, R. (1977 [1967]) ‘The death of the author’, in Image
Music Text, translated by Heath, S., London: Fontana, pp. 142–8.
23 Audiences Reading: Ang, I. (1991) ‘Audience-as-market and audience-as-public’,
in Desperately Seeking the Audience, London: Routledge, pp. 26–32.
24 Audiences as producers Reading: Shirky, C. (2008) Here Comes Everybody: How change happens
when people come together, London: Penguin, pp. 55–66.
Bibliography
Index