Nicholas Carah, Sungyong Ahn, Amy Dobson

Media and Society (eBook, PDF)

Power, Platforms, and Participation

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Media and Society offers a critical exploration of how digital platforms and participatory and algorithmic cultures shape power and identity today. This third edition delves into key issues such as the interplay between user generated content and algorithmic processing, the rise of creator cultures, and the dynamic role automation plays in media industries and cultures.

In this new edition you will find:

• A deep dive into the ongoing development of digital platforms, exploring platform capitalisms beyond Silicon Valley;
• A detailed exploration of how social media and their promotional and creator cultures work and represent the social world;
• Insights into how media are a critical site where identities are constructed, negotiated and resisted;

• Updated case studies on topics ranging across livestreamers, shadowbanning, automated advertising, beauty filters and more.

For media and communications students to those seeking critical media literacy, this book is essential reading.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781036216122
• Artikelnr.: 75745286

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Carah is Director of the Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies and Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland. He is also an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society and leads the UQ node of the Australian Internet Observatory.

Nicholas is a UQ Teaching Fellow (2018-2019) and has been awarded the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence (2019) and The University of Queensland Award for Teaching Excellence (2020).

Nicholas' research has been published in Media, Culture & Society, Cultural Studies, Social Media & Society, New Media & Society, Television & New Media, Convergence, Consumption, Markets & Culture and Mobile Media & Communication. He is the author of Brand Machines, Sensory Media and Calculative Culture (2016), Media and Society: Production, Content and Participation (2015) and Pop Brands: Branding, Popular Music and Young People (2010). He is the co-editor of Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media (2018) and Conflict in my Outlook (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Meaning, Representation and Power
Chapter 2: Representation
Chapter 3: The Industrial Production of Meaning
Chapter 4: Power and Media Production
Chapter 5: Global Networks
Chapter 6: Platform Media
Chapter 7: Social Media, Streaming and Logistics
Chapter 8: Participatory and Algorithmic Culture
Chapter 9: Making and Managing Audiences
Chapter 10: Producing and Negotiating Identities
Chapter 11: News and Strategic Communication
Chapter 12: Brand Culture
Chapter 13: Media and Communication Professionals
Chapter 14: Managing Participation

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Chapter 1: Media, Meaning and Power
Chapter 2: The Industrial Production of Meaning Making
Chapter 3: Platform Media
Chapter 4: Social Media, Short Video Streaming and Logistics
Chapter 5: Making and Managing Audiences
Chapter 6: Participatory and Algorithmic Culture
Chapter 7: Algorithmic Imaginaries
Chapter 8: Representation
Chapter 9: Digital Identities and Intimacies
Chapter 10: Creator Cultures
Chapter 11: Advertising and Promotional Cultures
Chapter 12: News and Strategic Communication
Chapter 13: Media Workers
Chapter 14: Automation, Representation and Power

Rezensionen

Nicholas Carah has provided a crucial and brilliantly written text for our time: a clear-eyed and comprehensive approach to the operation of media power in the era of digital capitalism. Finally, we have a rich resource that does justice to the profound transformations wrought by the media that permeate our social world. Mark Andrejevic