Perché studiare i Media?

by Roger Silverstone, Anna Manzato (Translator)

La centralità dei media nell'esperienza umana è ormai un dato ineludibile. Ai media non si può sfuggire e oggi essi decidono della nostra capacità o incapacità di dare senso al mondo in cui viviamo. Lo studio dei media ha bisogno di sensibilità storica e sociologica, di disponibilità a ripensare e ridiscutere molte delle categorie attraverso cui leggiamo la realtà: tecnologia, poesia, erotismo, rappresentazione, consumo, comunità, globalità, fiducia, memoria.

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[David Meme · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book presents an excellent argument as to why studying the media requires more than the often simplistic treatment it receives in the social sciences (see for instance Moss' work). Media cannot just be ignored or treated as being carried over a neutral transmission medium, nor can we take for granted the form of the medium. New media has obviously raised these issues in startling new ways (in terms of remediation in particular) but the difficulty of placing the media within a methodological framework of analysis without lapsing into sociologism or technologism (to use Latour's terms) show the importance of developing methodology in relation to media/medium scholarship. A great place to start to get up to speed on contemporary debates about media studies.

[Adam Ripon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Outdated for 2017-2018 bud good for media theories.