Bøger af Roger Silverstone

This major survey firmly places media research in the wider context of political and social change and its analysis, and provides a defining but also questioning perspective on its achievements.

Written as a manifesto and in order to set a new intellectual agenda, Why Study the Media? argues for the importance of the media in our culture and society and the consequent necessity of taking the media seriously as an object of enlightened but rigorous investigation.

Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for the way in which the world is understood by its citizens.

Explores the enigma of television and how it has found its way into the fabric of our everyday lives. Drawing on a wide range of literature, from psychoanalysis to sociology and from geography to cultural studies, this text reveals its emotional, cognitive, spatial and political significance.