Media Sociology

Silvio Waisbord is Professor of Media and Public Affairs at the George Washington University.

''It's high time for media sociology to be addressed once more and good to see it done in such a refreshingly questioning way. In this well-edited and valuable collection by a highly competent group of writers, the continuing relevance of sociological thinking for media in the digital age is signalled and some essential terrain marked out afresh.''Philip Schlesinger, University of Glasgow''Although sociology and sociological theory lay at the foundation of the study of media, they have been largely displaced by narrow public opinion and psychological approaches. This anthology reestablishes the importance of media sociology, with its focus grounded in the fundamental concepts of structure, institutions, and power. A significant contribution and a good read.''Robert Horwitz, University of California San Diego

• Introduction: Reappraising Media Sociology             Silvio Waisbord Part I Media, Institutions, and Politics  1 Strategy Follows Structure: A Media Sociology Manifesto Rodney Benson2 Linking Media Sociology to Political Development in Trans-Legislative Democracies Michael Schudson3 Back to the Future? The Sociology of News and Journalism from Black and White to the   Digital AgeHoward Tumber Part II Media Industries and Audiences 4 Agency, Social Interaction, and Audience Studies Richard Butsch5 Media Industry Sociology: Mainstream, Critical, and Cultural PerspectivesTimothy Havens6 The Political Economy of Media Work and WatchingToby Miller     Part III Media representations 7 When Media Representation Met SociologyShani Orgad8 Too Little But Not Too Late: Sociological Contributions to Feminist Media Studies Laura Grindstaff and Andrea Press9 Media Sociology and the Study of Race Ronald N. Jacobs Part IV Digital Technologies, Self, and Society 10 Digital Media Technology and the Spirit of the New Capitalism: What Future for “Aesthetic Critique”? Graeme Kirkpatrick11 Mobile Communication and Mediated Interpersonal CommunicationRich Ling12 Sociology and the Socially Mediated Self Jeff Pooley