Media, voice, space and power: essays in refraction
Preface: Analysis without Sorting Hats -- Jonathan Gray -- Part One SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT -- Speaking Up in a Public Space: The Strange Case of Rachel Whiteread's House -- Local Magics, Global Discretion -- Speaking about Others and Speaking Personally: Reflections after Elspeth Probyn's Sexing the Self -- The Individual "Point of View": Learning from Bourdieu's The Weight of the World -- Part Two SPACES OF MEDIA, SPACES OF EXCLUSION -- Remembering Diana: The Geography of Celebrity and the Politics of Lack -- Passing Ethnographies: Rethinking the Sites of Agency and Reflexivity in a Mediated World -- The Umbrella Man: Crossing a Landscape of Speech and Silence -- On the Set of the Sopranos: "Inside" a Fan's construction of Nearness -- Teaching Us to Fake It: The Ritualised Norms of Television's "Reality" Games -- Class and Contemporary Forms of "Reality" Production Or, Hidden Injuries of Class, 2 -- Part Three: DEMOCRACY'S UNCERTAIN FUTURES -- Form and Power in an Age of Continuous Spectacle -- Living Well with and through Media -- What and Where is the Transnationalized Public Sphere? -- A Necessary Disenchantment: Myth, Agency and Injustice in the Digital Age -- Media in Modernity: A Nice Derangement of Institutions -- Afterword: Refracting Power in an Age of Big Data -- Index.