"The second edition of this groundbreaking textbook provides a comprehensive overview of mass communication theories, as well as their origins and empirical supports in psychology, sociology, political science, and philosophy. Each chapter presents a specific theory, describing …
Long description: NSA und Edward Snowden, Web 2.0 und Social Media, Big Data und Liquid Democracy - hinter all diesen Chiffren blitzt immer wieder die Vermutung einer umgreifenden Veränderung der Gesellschaft durch die Möglichkeiten digitaler Datenverarbeitung und -nutzung auf. …
Marshall McLuhans Ausspruch »The medium is the message« gilt in besonderer Weise für das Radio der Sowjetzeit. Indem es Inhalte einem massenhaften Publikum in akustischer Form vermittelt, wird das Radio zum revolutionären Medium, das bürgerliche Wissensformen der Buchkultur zugu…
Marshall McLuhans Ausspruch "The medium is the message" gilt in besonderer Weise für das Radio der Sowjetzeit. Indem es Inhalte einem massenhaften Publikum in akustischer Form vermittelt, wird das Radio zum revolutionären Medium, das bürgerliche Wissensformen der Buchkultur zugu…
Marshall McLuhans Ausspruch »The medium is the message« gilt in besonderer Weise für das Radio der Sowjetzeit. Indem es Inhalte einem massenhaften Publikum in akustischer Form vermittelt, wird das Radio zum revolutionären Medium, das bürgerliche Wissensformen der Buchkultur zugu…
"Transforming McLuhan explores the radical, humanist line of descent in interpreting Canadian media and culture theorist Marshall McLuhan's work, rejecting the dominant view of McLuhan as a conservative, uncritical herald of technological determinism and capitalism. This McLuhan…
In medieval culture, media forms were placesof mediated immediacy. They transported apresence of the divine, but also knowledge ofits unattainability. This volume investigates the multi-layered and fascinatingapproaches of medieval authors to the wordand writing, the body and ma…
Fuchs demonstrates the relevance of Marx in the way we communicate from digital capitalism towards communicative socialism and digital communism. Delving into Marx's most influential works, such as Capital, The Grundrisse, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts, The German Ideolog…
"There is a blind spot in recent accounts of the history, theory and aesthetics of optical media: namely, the field of the three-dimensional, or trans-plane, image. It has been widely used in the 20th century for very different practices - military, scientific and medical visual…
"This introductory text is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marx's ideas in media, communication and cultural studies. Karl Marx's ideas remain of crucial relevance, and in this short, student-friendly book, leading expert Christian Fuchs introduces Ma…
