Simon Dawes – författare

This edited collection presents new work by leading international scholars that addresses the multi-layered meaning of frictions within empirical and theoretical research across media and communications, digital technologies, culture and society.It brings together an impressive range of global scholars from media and communication, visual and cultural studies, to sociology, anthropology and cultural geography, and digital technology research, to critically examine the dynamics of friction, providing an original perspective on media frictions and a new understanding of the social tensions, instabilities and power inequalities of friction within media, culture and society. Together the chapters provide a timely opportunity to understand both the creative force, and negative consequences, of frictions within media and society.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of television, media and cultural studies.

This edited collection presents new work by leading international scholars that addresses the multi-layered meaning of frictions within empirical and theoretical research across media and communications, digital technologies, culture and society.It brings together an impressive range of global scholars from media and communication, visual and cultural studies, to sociology, anthropology and cultural geography, and digital technology research, to critically examine the dynamics of friction, providing an original perspective on media frictions and a new understanding of the social tensions, instabilities and power inequalities of friction within media, culture and society. Together the chapters provide a timely opportunity to understand both the creative force, and negative consequences, of frictions within media and society.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of television, media and cultural studies.

This collection of new work by international scholars on media imaginaries explores the concept as a tool for reflection. Media imaginaries are shape shifters, taking multiple forms as make believe, as thinking outside the box and as social practices. The term media imaginaries refers to the cultural and infrastructural work of texts and artefacts, audience engagement and experiences and commercial and civic organisations. Authors in the collection empirically and conceptually examine media imaginaries as multiform, providing space for dialogue on themes of political-social imaginaries, cultural-technological imaginaries and reflecting imaginaries.Media Imaginaries explores how media shapes both real and imagined experiences, examining the interplay of media practice, culture, and imagination across past, present, and future contexts. It highlights the impact of AI-enabled content and media ecologies on everyday life globally, offering fresh insights for media studies. The collection bridges multiple academic traditions, making it an important and widely relevant contribution to the field.

Neoliberalism in Context adopts a processual, relational and contextual framework, bringing together contributions from diverse national and disciplinary contexts, and bridging theoretical and methodological approaches to critiquing neoliberalism.

Neoliberalism in Context adopts a processual, relational and contextual framework, bringing together contributions from diverse national and disciplinary contexts, and bridging theoretical and methodological approaches to critiquing neoliberalism.

This text offers a theoretical engagement with the ways in which private and public interests - and how those interests have been understood - have framed the changing rationale for broadcasting regulation, using the first century of UK broadcasting as a starting point.