Rethinking Media and Communication : A Critical Sociological Lens /

Rethinking Media and Communication : A Critical Sociological Lens /

In this book, the authors address critical questions about the role of media and communication in capitalist societies. How do power structures shape communication processes? How are inequalities reinforced across different levels of society-micro, mezzo, and macro? Drawing on sociology, political e...

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Other Authors: Allmer, Thomas (Editor), Bilić, Paško (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 355.

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Media Studies.
Social Sciences.

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Call Number: H1 .S612

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • List of Figures, Tables, and Diagrams
  • 1 Introduction
  • Paško Bilić and Thomas Allmer
  • Part 1 Setting the Scene
  • 2 Contested Legacies - Marxian Influences on the Sociology of Media and Communication
  • Sašo Slaček-Brlek and Boris Mance
  • Part 2 Abstraction and Fetish
  • 3 Between Capital and the Lifeworld: Contradictions of Value-Regulated Social Interactions
  • Paško Bilić
  • 4 Theorising a Multidimensional Model for Analysing Data Fetishism: Reconciling Marxist and Freudian Approaches to the 'Split'
  • Andrea Miconi and Nico Carpentier
  • 5 Actio in distans : a Critical Node of Technological and Social Mediation
  • Marco Briziarelli
  • Part 3 Dominance and Counter-Dominance
  • 6 From the Iron Cage to the Silicon Cage: New Forms of Domination within Hypermediated Societies
  • Davide Lucantoni, Francesco Orazi and Federico Sofritti
  • 7 Legal Determination of Forms in Software and Communication: between Public and Capital
  • Toni Prug and Mislav Žitko
  • Part 4 Public Opinion, Public Sphere and Communicative Activity
  • 8 Fast and Shallow: towards a Critical Theory of Opinion
  • Eric-John Russell
  • 9 Activity Theory in the Digital Age: Can Communication and Data Be Expropriated, Exploited, or Alienated?
  • Sebastian Sevignani
  • Part 5 Non-Western Directions in the Critical Sociology of Media and Communication
  • 10 Ibn Khaldûn and the Political Economy of Communication in the Age of Digital Capitalism
  • Christian Fuchs
  • 11 Ibn Khaldûn Revisited: Responding to Christian Fuchs
  • Graham Murdock
  • 12 Ibn Khaldûn and the Political Economy of Communication: a Reply to Graham Murdock
  • Christian Fuchs
  • 13 Re-reading Ibn Khaldûn in Critical Times
  • Graham Murdock
  • 14 Critical Sociological and Media Studies: How Latin America Learned to Contest Power from the Periphery
  • Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Monica Marchesi
  • Part 6 Re-focusing the Sociology of Media and Communication Debate
  • 15 Dialectics of the Symbolic: Michel Freitag and the Critique of Communication
  • Claude Leduc and Maxime Ouellet
  • 16 Re-examining News Sources in the Sociology of the Media: a Political Economy of Communication Approach
  • Jernej A. Prodnik and Igor Vobič
  • 17 Narrating the Field of Communication: Charting an Unstable Territory
  • Steven Maras
  • Index.