Understanding Media Cultures highlights the work of individual theorists including Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, J[um]urgen Habermas, Marshall McLuhan, Frederic Jameson and Jean Baudrillard. The author also covers important traditions of media analysis from feminism, cultural studies and audience research. Show
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`Explores the relation between general social theory and mass communication in a number of important and critical ways.... The book is a salutary opening of the whole complex terrain of the critical analysis and interpretation of information technologies in the contemporary epoch.... Perhaps most significantly, Understanding Media Cultures offers a radical critique of contemporary social theory in relation to mass communication.... All in all, I can′t think of a book in media studies that handles so well the diversity of perspectives and issues that Stevenson addresses. Whether reconstructing Marxism or deconstructing postmodernism, tackling the pleasures of soap opera or the repetitive structures of daily news presentation, Stevenson is always clear and insightful. The book is an important social-theoretical contribution to media studies′ - Sociology
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