| The Mediated Construction of Reality Contributor(s): Couldry, Nick (Author), Hepp, Andreas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745681301 ISBN-13: 9780745681306 Publisher: Polity Press OUR PRICE: $74.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 302.23 |
| LCCN: 2016011836 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.20 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Sch 1/4tz, 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? |