Bringing the Sociology of Media Back In
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 275-292
ISSN: 1091-7675
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 275-292
ISSN: 1091-7675
In: International studies review, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 1–11
ISSN: 1468-2486
Recent studies of media and security continue to be limited by various theoretical and ontological commitments, despite their claims of "moving beyond" or "reconsidering" the CNN effect. In this article, I review the two dominant research paradigms for media and security. The first research paradigm, which includes the CNN-effect literature, imagines media as an independent actor in the policy-making process. The second research paradigm portrays media as a neutral channel, passing along the message of foreign policy elites. Each of these paradigms remains wedded to an actor-centered and choice-theoretic approach to media and security, as witnessed by recent attempts to study the CNN effect. I argue that a new research paradigm based on relational sociology actually moves media and security studies beyond the CNN effect and resolves the fundamental theoretical limitations associated with it.
World Affairs Online
In: International studies review, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 1-11
ISSN: 1468-2486
In: Society Now
The British post-war campaign to ban American horror comics neatly illustrates many of the pitfalls of media research. It is the first case-study used by David Barrat as he reviews this rapidly growing field of sociology. He gives a clear account of how and why sociologists have studied the media, looking in particular at the arguments about the effects of television, video, comics, newspapers, and radio on their audiences.He explains how media organizations work, how 'news' is manufactured, and what the political and commercial constraints can be. He discusses the likely impact on new technol
In: Political communication: an international journal, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 305-307
ISSN: 1091-7675
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As social media is increasingly becoming a standard feature of sociological practice, this timely book rethinks the role of these mediums in public sociology and what they can contribute to the discipline in the post-COVID world. It reconsiders the history and current conceptualizations of what sociology is, and analyzes what kinds of social life emerge in and through the interactions between 'intellectuals', 'publics' and 'platforms' of communication.
Cutting across multiple disciplines, this pioneering work envisions a new kind of public sociology that brings together the digital and the physical to create public spaces where critical scholarship and active civic engagement can meet in a mutually reinforcing way.
In: Themes and perspectives in sociology
In: Rural Society, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 13-13
ISSN: 2204-0536
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 205-253
ISSN: 0304-2421
In: Studies in media and communications volume 18