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The mediated construction of reality / Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity Press, 2017.Description: ix, 290 pages ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780745681306 (hbk.) :
- 9780745681313 (pbk.) :
- 302.23 COU
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 302.23 COU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100626549 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality , two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world is constructed in and through media.
Drawing on Schütz, Elias and many other social and media theorists, they ask: what are the implications of digital media�s profound involvement in those processes? Is the result a social world that is stable and liveable, or one that is increasingly unstable and unliveable?
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political ScienceAndreas Hepp is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen.