Media Sociology : A Reappraisal (Paperback)

Contents

Introduction: Reappraising Media Sociology             
Silvio Waisbord

Part I Media, Institutions, and Politics
 
1 Strategy Follows Structure: A Media Sociology Manifesto
   Rodney Benson
2 Linking Media Sociology to Political Development in Trans-Legislative Democracies
   Michael Schudson    
3 Back to the Future? The Sociology of News and Journalism from Black and White to the   Digital Age
   Howard Tumber

Part II Media Industries and Audiences

4 Agency, Social Interaction, and Audience Studies
   Richard Butsch
5 Media Industry Sociology: Mainstream, Critical, and Cultural Perspectives
   Timothy Havens
6 The Political Economy of Media Work and Watching
   Toby Miller    

Part III Media representations

7 When Media Representation Met Sociology
   Shani Orgad    
8 Too Little But Not Too Late: Sociological Contributions to Feminist Media Studies
   Laura Grindstaff and Andrea Press
9 Media Sociology and the Study of Race
   Ronald N. Jacobs

Part IV Digital Technologies, Self, and Society

10 Digital Media Technology and the Spirit of the New Capitalism: What Future for “Aesthetic Critique”?
   Graeme Kirkpatrick
11 Mobile Communication and Mediated Interpersonal Communication
   Rich Ling
12 Sociology and the Socially Mediated Self
   Jeff Pooley