2014•Choice Reviews OnlineRequires access
Media sociology: a reappraisal
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Contents Introduction: Reappraising Media Sociology Silvio Waisbord Part I Media, Institutions, and Politics 1 Strategy Follows Structure: A Media Sociology Manifesto Rodney Benson 2 Linking Media Sociology to Political Development in Trans-Legislative Democracies Michael Schudson 3 Back to the Future? The Sociology of News and Journalism from Black and White to the Digital Age Howard Tumber Part II Media Industries and Audiences 4 Agency, Social Interaction, and Audience Studies Richard Butsch 5 Media Industry Sociology: Mainstream, Critical, and Cultural Perspectives Timothy Havens 6 The Political Economy of Media Work and Watching Toby Miller Part III Media representations 7 When Media Representation Met Sociology Shani Orgad 8 Too Little But Not Too Late: Sociological Contributions to Feminist Media Studies Laura Grindstaff and Andrea Press 9 Media Sociology and the Study of Race Ronald N. Jacobs Part IV Digital Technologies, Self, and Society 10 Digital Media Technology and the Spirit of the New Capitalism: What Future for Aesthetic Critique ? Graeme Kirkpatrick 11 Mobile Communication and Mediated Interpersonal Communication Rich Ling 12 Sociology and the Socially Mediated Self Jeff Pooley