Description
Product ID: | 9781529707953 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Media and Society |
Subtitle: | Power, Platforms, and Participation |
Authors: | Author: Nicholas Carah |
Page Count: | 416 |
Subjects: | Communication studies, Communication studies, Cultural studies, Media studies, Cultural studies, Media studies |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A critical introduction to meaning and power in an age of participatory culture, social media and digital platforms. Helps students to understand the central role media play in the social world, and how they can become informed media citizens themselves. How do media platforms organise social life? It explores the relationship between meaning and power in an age of participatory culture, social media and digital platforms. An age where we both create and consume content, and where we both give and gain attention – translating our social lives into huge flows of data. Associate Professor Nicholas Carah shows how a critical approach to power helps us not only to understand the role media play in shaping the social, but also how we can become critically informed media citizens ourselves, able to participate and be heard in meaningful ways. Media & Society expertly introduces all the key concepts and ideas you need to know, and then puts theory into practice by tying them to contemporary case studies. From using Ghostery to track how your personal data is being collected, to exploring misinformation on social media via Youtube, to the reality of internships and freelancing in today’s digital media industry. |
Imprint Name: | Sage Publications Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Sage Publications Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2021-05-25 |