[csaa-forum] New book: Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change

[nico carpentier]

*apologies for cross-posting*

New book

Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change
Edited by Ilija Tomanić Trivundža, Hannu Nieminen, Nico Carpentier, 
Josef Trappel
2018 – Routledge
206 pages

https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Perspectives-on-Media-Power-and-Change/Tomanic-Trivundza-Nieminen-Carpentier-Trappel/p/book/9781138104600

Description

This book explores current debates about media, power and change from a 
wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. Sharing a common set 
of concerns which are mobilised to defend core societal values – 
including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and 
humanity – authors raise questions about how the omnipresent media can 
contribute to the materialisation of these core values, and how it can 
sometimes work against them. Addressing issues such as rethinking social 
change, mediatisation and regulation, the authors demonstrate how the 
role of the critical media and communication scholar merits and requires 
(self-)reflection. Critical voices matter, but they also face structural 
limitations.

This book was originally published as two special issues of Javnost: The 
Public.

About the Editors

Ilija Tomanic Trivundža is Associate Professor in the Department of 
Media and Communication Studies at the University of Ljubljana, 
Slovenia, and President of the European Communication Research and 
Education Association.

Hannu Nieminen is Professor of Media and Communications Policy, and Dean 
of the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Nico Carpentier is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at 
Uppsala University, Sweden. He also holds part-time positions at the 
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and Charles University, Prague, 
Czech Republic.

Josef Trappel is Professor of Media Policy and Media Economics, and Head 
of the Department of Communication Studies, at the University of 
Salzburg, Austria.

Table of Contents

Part I: Communication power and inequality

1. Inequality and Digitally Mediated Communication: Divides, 
Contradictions and Consequences Robin Mansell

2. The New Spirit of Capitalism, Innovation Fetishism and New 
Information and Communication Technologies Marko Ampuja

3. Inequality and Liberal Democracy: A Critical Take on Economic and 
Political Power Aspects Paschal Preston

4. For Public Communication John Downey

5. Beyond the Ladder of Participation: An Analytical Toolkit for the 
Critical Analysis of Participatory Media Processes Nico Carpentier

Part II: Mediatisation and change

6. Explaining the Mediatisation Approach Friedrich Krotz

7. Mediatisation and the Transformation of Capitalism: The Elephant in 
the Room Graham Murdoch

8. Changes in Contemporary Communication Ecosystems Ask for a ‘New Look’ 
at the Concept of Mediatisation Gianpietro Mazzoleni

Part III: Media, change and regulation

9. Particularistic and Universalistic Media Policies Peter Bajomi-Lazar

10. A Radical Democratic Reform of Media Regulation in Response to Three 
Levels of Crisis Hannu Nieminen

Part IV: Critical scholarship in media and communication studies

11. Put a Ring on It! Why We Need More Commitment in Media Scholarship 
Des Freedman

12. Being (Truly) Critical in Media and Communication Studies: 
Reflections of a Media Scholar Between Science and Politics Kaarle 
Nordenstreng

13. Grounding Communication Studies in Enlightenment Criticality: 
Scaling Up Theoretical and Dialectical Ambition Ed McLuskie


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