MediaSpace: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age

by Nick Couldry (editor), Anna McCarthy (Editor)

Media Space explores the importance of ideas of space and place to understanding the ways in which we experience the media in our everyday lives. Essays from leading international scholars address the kinds of space created by media and the effects that spacial arrangements have on media forms. Case studies focus on a wide variety of subjects and locales, from in-flight entertainment to mobile media such as personal stereos and mobile phones, and from the electronic spaces of the Internet to the shopping mall.

320 pages, Paperback

First published November 27, 2003

About the author

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and communications at LSE. As a sociologist of media and culture, he approaches media and communications from the perspective of the symbolic power that has been historically concentrated in media institutions.

Reviews

[Christine · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really really good, readable collection of essays about place, space and media. The essays challenged my mind, expanded my thinking about physical space and the impact/interrelationship between space and technology. For anyone wanting to deepen their understanding on any of these topics, this is a good primer. Great bibliographies for further reading are included at the end of each chapter.

[Diu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Most of chapters are outdated. but it's still a good read as media history.