Media Logic(s) Revisited: Modelling the Interplay between Media Institutions, Media Technology and Societal Change (Transforming Communications – Studies in Cross-Media Research) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319657550 ISBN 13: 9783319657554

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Synopsis

This volume provides new approaches to the concept of media logics – developed by Altheide and Snow – by drawing on theoretical and empirical perspectives from international scientists working in the field of communications, media, political science, and sociology. In an increasingly digitized and globalized world, powerful media structures and technologies influence our daily lives in many respects. It is not only mass media but ‘poly media channels’ that become more and more contextualized in everyday lives. Therefore, it is necessary to revisit the theory of media logics, which focuses on the strong intercorrelation of media technologies, media institutions and media power. Media Logic(s) Revisited attends to this by critically reflecting on the idea of media logic, a much needed input in light of current developments and strong cultural embedding of media in various social contexts.

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About the Author

 Caja Thimm is Professor for Media Studies and Intermediality at the University of Bonn, Germany. She is head of the project ‘Deliberation on the Net’ which is part of the DFG priority programme ‘Mediatized Worlds’, funded by the German Science Foundation.

 

Mario Anastasiadis is a scientific coordinator of the Graduate School ‘Digital Society’ at the University of Bonn, Germany, and a research associate in the project ‘Deliberation on the Net’ which is part of the DFG priority programme ‘Mediatized Worlds’.

 

Jessica Einspänner-Pflock is a researcher and lecturer in the field of digital communication at the University of Bonn, Germany. She has published on the subject of Twitter in election campaigns, online PR, and adolescents’ sense of privacy in the digital world.

From the Back Cover

This volume provides new approaches to the concept of media logics, developed by Altheide and Snow, by drawing on theoretical and empirical perspectives from international scientists working in the field of communications, media, political science, and sociology. In an increasingly digitized and globalized world, powerful media structures and technologies influence our daily lives in many respects. It is not only mass media but “poly medial channels“ that become more and more contextualized in everyday lives. It thus seems necessary to reflect on the theory of media logics, which in fact focuses on the strong intercorrelation of media technologies, media institutions and media power. The current developments and strong cultural embedding of media in various social contexts, however, call for critical reflections on the idea of media logic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319657550
• ISBN 13: 9783319657554
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 313
• Editor: Thimm Caja, Anastasiadis Mario, Einspänner-Pflock Jessica