The Mediated Construction of Reality (inbunden)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
256
Utgivningsdatum
2016-11-11
Upplaga
1
Utmärkelser
Winner of Theory Award of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) 2017 (Germany)
Förlag
Polity Press
Dimensioner
226 x 150 x 25 mm
Vikt
431 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780745681313

The Mediated Construction of Reality

Society, Culture, Mediatization

Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-11-11
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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 Schtz, Elias and many other social and media theorists, they ask: what are the implications of digital medias profound involvement in those processes? Is the result a social world that is stable and liveable, or one that is increasingly unstable and unliveable?
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Winner of the Theory Award 2017 of the German Communication Association (DGPuK) "This book by Couldry and Hepp might well become a new classic in the theory of the social, on par with Elias and Latour. Theorizing the mediated construction of reality, the authors sketch the new contours of 'a space where order is at stake.' Mandatory reading for everyone who seriously reflects on the implications of contemporary media systems and practices on society." Jos van Dijck, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands "A profound and illuminating attempt to bring core traditions of social theory into the study of media in the digital age. An excellent and pathbreaking book." Anthony Giddens, member of the House of Lords, former director of the London School of Economics and Political Science "In this wide-ranging, ambitious volume, Couldry and Hepp revisit Berger & Luckmann's classic work on social construction. Their theory of 'deep mediatization' resituates digital media systems and networked "figurations" of communicative action as interdependent, constitutive phenomena in contemporary sociality and social worlds. Mediated Construction is an indispensable contribution to social theory in communication research and media sociology." Leah Lievrouw, University of California, Los Angeles "This is not a book about media, but a book about the world shaped by media. And it is not just about that empirical reality, but about how to understand it. Couldry and Hepp develop insights from phenomenology and integrate these with critical theory in an exciting combination." Craig Calhoun, London School of Economics and Political Science "The Mediated Construction of Reality is simply an important book for sociology and for media and communication studies alike maybe as important as The Social Construction of Reality became half a century ago." Soziopolis "It might seem overly ambitious for communication studies to develop, rather than just draw upon, social theories that may have an enduring cross-disciplinary impact. Yet, as media sociologists Nick Couldry (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen) show in The Mediated Construction of Reality, it is time to do just that.... Scholars of interpersonal, organizational, and political communicationor anyone who is concerned about the implications of the digital agewill find insights in this book." Meng Li, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly "This book is written by a formidable team.... Couldry and Hepp argue convincingly that big data, artificial intelligence and automation intensify the complexity of the social, and its degrees of interdependence... [They] engage in a Herculean struggle to describe the social meaning of data processing in the human lifeworld, and the book is full of sharp observations. I am really glad they took the trouble to write it." Lars Nyre, New Media & Society "[T]he bookshines with a solid sociological framework, a comprehensive grasp of the relevant literature, and an insightful understanding of the most urgent issues surrounding new media and society. It is simply a must-read for students of the field who seek inspiration for thinking about these issues." Elaine Yuan, Global Media and Communication

Övrig information

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science Andreas Hepp is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), University of Bremen.

Innehållsförteckning

Contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Constructing the Social World Chapter 2: The Social World as Communicative Construction Chapter 3: History as Waves of Mediatization Chapter 4: How We Live With Media Part II: Dimensions of the Social World Chapter 5: Space Chapter 6: Time Chapter 7: Data Part III: Agency in the Social World Chapter 8: Self Chapter 9: Collectivities Chapter 10: Order Chapter 11: Conclusion Notes References Index