Media/theory: Thinking about Media and Communications

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Taylor & Francis, 2005 - 212 pages

From an established author with a growing international profile in media studies, Media/Theory is an accessible yet challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life.

Shaun Moores draws on ideas from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and expertly connects the analysis of media and communications with key themes in contemporary social theory.

Examining core issues of time and space, Moores also examines matters of interactions, signification and identity, and argues that media studies is bound up in the wider processes of the modern world and not just about studying the media.

This book makes a distinctive contribution towards rethinking the shape and direction of media studies today, and for students at advanced undergraduate or postgraduate level.

 

Contents

Time and space 1 Cyclicity
1
Structuration
9
Routines
10
Traditions
14
Dailiness
16
Seriality
19
Scheduling
20
Ordinariness
22
Unevenness
50
Network
51
Flow
53
Empires
56
Permeability
58
Virtuality
64
3
69
1
77

Hourliness
25
Lifetime
27
Eventfulness
29
Extensionality Globalisation
35
Stretching
38
Medium
42
Shrinking
46
9
89
Signification
103
Identity
139
Index
179
103
205
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