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Nick Couldry is one of the world's leading analysts of media power and voice, and has been publishing widely for 25 years. This volume, published 20 years after The Place of Media Power, brings together a rich collection of essays from his earliest to his latest writings, some of them hard to access, plus two previously unpublished chapters.
The book's 15 chapters cover a variety of themes from voice to space, from Big Data to democracy, and from art to reality television. Taken together, they give a unique insight into the range of Couldry's interests and passions. Throughout, Couldry's commitment to connecting media research to wider debates in philosophy and social theory is clear. A substantial Afterword reflects on the common themes that run throughout his work and this volume, and the particular challenges of grasping media's contribution to social order in an age of datafication. A preface by leading US media scholar Jonathan Gray sets these essays in context.
The result is an exciting and clearly-written text that will interest students and researchers of media, culture and social theory across the world.
Contents
Preface: Analysis without Sorting Hats - Jonathan Gray
Part One SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT
Speaking Up in a Public Space: The Strange Case of Rachel Whiteread's House
Local Magics, Global Discretion
Speaking about Others and Speaking Personally: Reflections after Elspeth Probyn's Sexing the Self
The Individual "Point of View": Learning from Bourdieu's The Weight of the World
Part Two SPACES OF MEDIA, SPACES OF EXCLUSION
Remembering Diana: The Geography of Celebrity and the Politics of Lack
Passing Ethnographies: Rethinking the Sites of Agency and Reflexivity in a Mediated World
The Umbrella Man: Crossing a Landscape of Speech and Silence
On the Set of the Sopranos: "Inside" a Fan's construction of Nearness
Teaching Us to Fake It: The Ritualised Norms of Television's "Reality" Games
Class and Contemporary Forms of "Reality" Production Or, Hidden Injuries of Class 2
Part Three: DEMOCRACY'S UNCERTAIN FUTURES
Form and Power in an Age of Continuous Spectacle
Living Well with and through Media
What and Where is the Transnationalized Public Sphere?
A Necessary Disenchantment: Myth, Agency and Injustice in the Digital Age
Media in Modernity: A Nice Derangement of Institutions
Afterword: Refracting Power in an Age of Big Data - Nick Couldry
