Why Study the Media? - Couverture souple

Silverstone, Roger

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0761964541 ISBN 13 : 9780761964544

Editeur : SAGE Publications Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

`It's easy to be snobbish about media culture; the great merit of Roger Silverstone's book is to make the reader understand just how important that culture is' -

Richard Sennett, New York University

`A remarkable book which argues for a new paradigm for the study of the media' - Daniel Dayan, Centre National de la Recherche

`A persuasive and sophisticated discussion of the role of the media in modern life at the threshold of the twenty-first century' - Ellen Seiter, University of California

`A very important book, one that moves media theory and argument on at long last. This is an attempt to get people to think differently about the media - not ju

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roger Silverstone is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His previous publications include: Framing Science (1985), and Television and Everyday Life (1994).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Written as a manifesto and in order to set a new intellectual agenda, Why Study the Media? argues for the importance of the media in our culture and society and the consequent necessity of taking the media seriously as an object of enlightened but rigorous investigation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0761964541
• ISBN 13: 9780761964544
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 165
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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