The Mediated Construction of Reality

Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2016
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-8130-6 (ISBN)

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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 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?

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.11.2016
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 236 mm
Gewicht	576 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-8130-1 / 0745681301
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-8130-6 / 9780745681306
Zustand	Neuware