Books of the Month
August 2023
Mediating the Message in the 21st Century: A
Media Sociology Perspective
Hailed as one of the "most significant books of the
twentieth century" by Journalism and Mass
Communication Quarterly, the book has long been an
essential text for media effects scholars and students of
media sociology. It offers students a comprehensive,
theoretical approach to media content in the twenty-first
century, with an added focus on entertainment media and
the Internet.
Internet and Emotions
This book is the fruit of an interdisciplinary collaboration
of scholars from the sociology of emotions and
communication and media studies. It features theoretical
and empirical chapters from international researchers
who investigate a wide range of issues concerning the
sociology of emotions in the context of new media.
Digital Identity and Everyday Activism: Sharing
Private Stories with Networked Publics
This book reinvigorates the space between scholarly
texts on self-representation, voice and agency and
practical field guides to community media and digital
storytelling. It offers a reflection on the ethical praxis of
co-creative media, and an indispensable suite of
digitally savvy representation strategies, pertinent to
modern people everywhere.
Updating to Remain the Same
New media exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence.
We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the
same. Meanwhile, analytic, creative, and commercial
efforts focus exclusively on the next big thing: figuring
out what will spread and who will spread it the fastest.
But what do we miss in this constant push to the
future? The author suggests another approach, arguing
that our media matter most when they seem not to
matter at all when they have moved from “new” to
habitual. Through habits, the author says, new media
become embedded in our lives indeed, we become our
machines: we stream, update, capture, upload, link,
save, trash, and troll.
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