Emancipation, the Media, and Modernity: Arguments about the Media and Social Theory

Author:   Nicholas Garnham (Professor of Media Studies, Professor of Media Studies, University of Westminster)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198742241


Pages:   214
Publication Date:   06 April 2000
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Emancipation, the Media, and Modernity: Arguments about the Media and Social Theory


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Author:   Nicholas Garnham (Professor of Media Studies, Professor of Media Studies, University of Westminster)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9780198742241


ISBN 10:   019874224
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   06 April 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The media, emancipation and modernity Media histories, media theories and modernity The Media as Cultural Industries The Media as Technologies Media Producers Audiences: Interpretation and consumption Culture, Ideology and Aesthetics Media and Politics Bibliography

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`Nicholas Garnham's new book is about moral philosophy, social theory and media analysis. Often these subjects are held to be separate. For Garnham, they are inseparable. This is certainly a major strength of this work, his work in general, and it should be emulated. To hold these subjects together in the face of increasing specialization in universities is a difficult task but one that Garnham achieves through his ability to proceed quickly, and with clarity, to what is essential in an argument. He is at home in all three subjects.' John Downey, European Journal of Communication 16 (1) `This is a very important book. It marks one of those very few occasions when a British academic publishes a book stepping straight through the boundaries of subject areas that mark off your little garden from mine in order to walk with a proper freedom and insouciance across the spaces of the great agora and the public forum.' Nicholas Garnham, THES, 3rd Nov. 2000. `This is the first book to start from a recognition of the new kind of polity that has developed out of the past 40 years or so in which politics and the public media are mutually embedded and government impossible without the complementary of both.' Nicholas Garnham, THES, 3rd Nov. 2000.


`Nicholas Garnham's new book is about moral philosophy, social theory and media analysis. Often these subjects are held to be separate. For Garnham, they are inseparable. This is certainly a major strength of this work, his work in general, and it should be emulated. To hold these subjects together in the face of increasing specialization in universities is a difficult task but one that Garnham achieves through his ability to proceed quickly, and with clarity, to what is essential in an argument. He is at home in all three subjects.' John Downey, European Journal of Communication 16 (1) `This is a very important book. It marks one of those very few occasions when a British academic publishes a book stepping straight through the boundaries of subject areas that mark off your little garden from mine in order to walk with a proper freedom and insouciance across the spaces of the great agora and the public forum.' Nicholas Garnham, THES, 3rd Nov. 2000. `This is the first book to start from a recognition of the new kind of polity that has developed out of the past 40 years or so in which politics and the public media are mutually embedded and government impossible without the complementary of both.' Nicholas Garnham, THES, 3rd Nov. 2000.


Nicholas Garnham's new book is about moral philosophy, social theory and media analysis. Often these subjects are held to be separate. For Garnham, they are inseparable. This is certainly a major strength of this work, his work in general, and it should be emulated. To hold these subjects together in the face of increasing specialization in universities is a difficult task but one that Garnham achieves through his ability to proceed quickly, and with clarity, to what is essential in an argument. He is at home in all three subjects. John Downey, European Journal of Communication 16 (1) This is a very important book. It marks one of those very few occasions when a British academic publishes a book stepping straight through the boundaries of subject areas that mark off your little garden from mine in order to walk with a proper freedom and insouciance across the spaces of the great agora and the public forum. Nicholas Garnham, THES, 3rd Nov. 2000. This is the first book to start from a recognition of the new kind of polity that has developed out of the past 40 years or so in which politics and the public media are mutually embedded and government impossible without the complementary of both. Nicholas Garnham, THES, 3rd Nov. 2000.


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Nicholas Garnham is Professor of Media Studies, University of Westminster

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