Media, Voice, Space and Power
Essays of Refraction
1st Edition
Published on 5. December 2019
266 pages
978-0-429-59455-7 (ISBN)
Description
Nick Couldry is one of the world's leading analysts of media power and voice, and has been publishing widely for 25 years. This volume, published 20 years after The Place of Media Power, brings together a rich collection of essays from his earliest to his latest writings, some of them hard to access, plus two previously unpublished chapters.
The book's 15 chapters cover a variety of themes from voice to space, from Big Data to democracy, and from art to reality television. Taken together, they give a unique insight into the range of Couldry's interests and passions. Throughout, Couldry's commitment to connecting media research to wider debates in philosophy and social theory is clear. A substantial Afterword reflects on the common themes that run throughout his work and this volume, and the particular challenges of grasping media's contribution to social order in an age of datafication. A preface by leading US media scholar Jonathan Gray sets these essays in context.
The result is an exciting and clearly-written text that will interest students and researchers of media, culture and social theory across the world.
The book's 15 chapters cover a variety of themes from voice to space, from Big Data to democracy, and from art to reality television. Taken together, they give a unique insight into the range of Couldry's interests and passions. Throughout, Couldry's commitment to connecting media research to wider debates in philosophy and social theory is clear. A substantial Afterword reflects on the common themes that run throughout his work and this volume, and the particular challenges of grasping media's contribution to social order in an age of datafication. A preface by leading US media scholar Jonathan Gray sets these essays in context.
The result is an exciting and clearly-written text that will interest students and researchers of media, culture and social theory across the world.
Reviews / Votes
'It is a wonderful thing to read these marvellous essays of Nick Couldry, that stand the test of time, and offer us in a timely collection, a resonant and searching set of investigations into the central trajectories of media and culture. This is theory at its best, communicated in an unfailingly generous, bracingly refractory, and utterly distinctive voice. Essential and rewarding reading!'Gerard Goggin, Professor of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University
'If you dislike compilation volumes, this book will prove you wrong. Spanning key issues in culturalist media studies - from Princess Diana's funeral to Big Data - Couldry offers a coherent and grounded exercise in intellectual wonder.'
Kirsten Drotner, University of Southern Denmark
'Strongly anchored in time and space, Couldry's essays employ a plurality of theoretical voices to advance our ability to make sense of what people do with media.'
Clemencia Rodriguez, Professor, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University 'It is a wonderful thing to read these marvellous essays of Nick Couldry, that stand the test of time, and offer us in a timely collection, a resonant and searching set of investigations into the central trajectories of media and culture. This is theory at its best, communicated in an unfailingly generous, bracingly refractory, and utterly distinctive voice. Essential and rewarding reading!'
Gerard Goggin, Professor of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University
'If you dislike compilation volumes, this book will prove you wrong. Spanning key issues in culturalist media studies - from Princess Diana's funeral to Big Data - Couldry offers a coherent and grounded exercise in intellectual wonder.'
Kirsten Drotner, University of Southern Denmark
'Strongly anchored in time and space, Couldry's essays employ a plurality of theoretical voices to advance our ability to make sense of what people do with media.'
Clemencia Rodriguez, Professor, Klein College of Media and Communication, Temple University
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
Illustrations
3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-0-429-59455-7 (9780429594557)
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Person
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics. He is the author or editor of 14 books, including The Costs of Connection (with Ulises Mejias, 2019), Media: Why It Matters (2019), The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp, 2016), Media Rituals: A Critical Approach (2003) and The Place of Media Power (2000).
Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. He is the author of four books (Television Entertainment; Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts; Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality; and Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz) and the co-editor of seven further books.
Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. He is the author of four books (Television Entertainment; Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts; Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality; and Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz) and the co-editor of seven further books.
Content
Preface: Analysis without Sorting Hats - Jonathan Gray
Part One SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT
Speaking Up in a Public Space: The Strange Case of Rachel Whiteread's House
Local Magics, Global Discretion
Speaking about Others and Speaking Personally: Reflections after Elspeth Probyn's Sexing the Self
The Individual "Point of View": Learning from Bourdieu's The Weight of the World
Part Two SPACES OF MEDIA, SPACES OF EXCLUSION
Remembering Diana: The Geography of Celebrity and the Politics of Lack
Passing Ethnographies: Rethinking the Sites of Agency and Reflexivity in a Mediated World
The Umbrella Man: Crossing a Landscape of Speech and Silence
On the Set of the Sopranos: "Inside" a Fan's construction of Nearness
Teaching Us to Fake It: The Ritualised Norms of Television's "Reality" Games
Class and Contemporary Forms of "Reality" Production Or, Hidden Injuries of Class 2
Part Three: DEMOCRACY'S UNCERTAIN FUTURES
Form and Power in an Age of Continuous Spectacle
Living Well with and through Media
What and Where is the Transnationalized Public Sphere?
A Necessary Disenchantment: Myth, Agency and Injustice in the Digital Age
Media in Modernity: A Nice Derangement of Institutions
Afterword: Refracting Power in an Age of Big Data - Nick Couldry
Part One SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT
Speaking Up in a Public Space: The Strange Case of Rachel Whiteread's House
Local Magics, Global Discretion
Speaking about Others and Speaking Personally: Reflections after Elspeth Probyn's Sexing the Self
The Individual "Point of View": Learning from Bourdieu's The Weight of the World
Part Two SPACES OF MEDIA, SPACES OF EXCLUSION
Remembering Diana: The Geography of Celebrity and the Politics of Lack
Passing Ethnographies: Rethinking the Sites of Agency and Reflexivity in a Mediated World
The Umbrella Man: Crossing a Landscape of Speech and Silence
On the Set of the Sopranos: "Inside" a Fan's construction of Nearness
Teaching Us to Fake It: The Ritualised Norms of Television's "Reality" Games
Class and Contemporary Forms of "Reality" Production Or, Hidden Injuries of Class 2
Part Three: DEMOCRACY'S UNCERTAIN FUTURES
Form and Power in an Age of Continuous Spectacle
Living Well with and through Media
What and Where is the Transnationalized Public Sphere?
A Necessary Disenchantment: Myth, Agency and Injustice in the Digital Age
Media in Modernity: A Nice Derangement of Institutions
Afterword: Refracting Power in an Age of Big Data - Nick Couldry
