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1. Why study the media? (17 items)

1: Key readings (3 items)

Why study the media? - Roger Silverstone, 1999Book | Essential | Especially ch 1: 'The texture of experience'.

Nearly 20 years on, this book remains an eloquent manifesto for the necessity &complexity of studying the media. Written while the author was Professor of Media atSussex, it reflects the interdisciplinary & inter-media approach that still characterises ourwork here.

Conceptualizing Mediatization: Contexts, Traditions, Arguments - Nick Couldry, AndreasHepp, August 2013

Article | Essential | This is a useful account of a key term in contemporary media andcultural studies – one that tries to encapsulate the power of the media in constructing aswell as representing social realities.

Reframing Media and Cultural Studies in the Age of Global Crisis - Tarik Sabry, 2017Article | Essential | This is a short overview of a special issue that includes audio

recordings of contributions by leading scholars at a recent conference on the subject – it’swell worth exploring.

1: Recommended reading (14 items)

From Cultural Studies to Cultural Research: Engaged Scholarship in the Twenty-firstCentury - Ien Ang, 2006

Article | Recommended | A polemical essay that engages with the history and future ofthe field of Cultural Studies.

New keywords: a revised vocabulary of culture and society - Tony Bennett, LawrenceGrossberg, Meaghan Morris, 2005

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Book | Recommended | Very good reference book throughout the module. See alsoRaymond Williams’ original 'Keywords' (below).

Keywords: a vocabulary of culture and society - Raymond Williams, 2014Book | Recommended | Other editions available at same classmark.

Inside Culture: Re-imagining the Method of Cultural Studies - Nick Couldry, 2000Book | Recommended | Especially ‘Introduction, pp. 1-19.

Mediatization or mediation? Alternative understandings of the emergent space of digitalstorytelling - Nick Couldry, 2008

Article | Recommended | An essay that explores approaches to the ‘big’ question of therole of media in society & culture.

Mass media and society - James Curran, Michael Gurevitch, 2005Book | Recommended | Valuable overviews of various relevant questions.

Digital futures for cultural and media studies - John Hartley, 2012Book | Recommended | A lively and idiosyncratic take on the current challenges in the

field.

Critical political economy of the media: an introduction - Jonathan Hardy, 2014Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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Critical political economy of the media: an introduction - Jonathan Hardy, 2013Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

Media and cultural studies: keyworks - Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Douglas Kellner, 2012Book | Recommended | Kellner, Douglas and Meenakshi Gigi Durham, ‘Adventures in

Media and Cultural Studies: Introducing the Keyworks’, pp.ix-xxxviii.A good overview of the field – don’t worry if most of the references are obscure to you atthis point; concentrate on the broad outline of questions and debates.Other editions available at same classmark.

The Politics of Cultural Studies and Cool Capitalism - Jim McGuigan, 2006Article | Recommended | A critical history of the ‘field’ of Cultural Studies.

Media Studies 3.0 - Toby Miller, 2009Article | Recommended | Also see other short accounts of ‘my media studies’ by leading

scholars in this issue.

Back to the future: media and communication studies in the 21st century - AswinPunathambekar, Paddy Scannell, 2013

Article | Recommended

2. critical political economy and cultural studies approaches (50 items)

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2: Key reading (4 items)

Illusions of immediacy: rediscovering Hall’s early work on media - Nick Couldry, 2015Article | Essential | Beyond the particular value of revisiting Stuart Hall’s early work, use

this article to think about the continuities and change not only between older and newerforms of media, but also ways of thinking about media and culture.

The study of the political economy of the media in the twenty-first century - Janet Wasko,September 2014

Article | Essential | A useful overview of political economy approaches from one of theleading writers in the field.

Mass media and society - James Curran, Michael Gurevitch, 2005Book | Essential | DIGITISATION REQUESTED.

Murdock, Graham and Peter Golding, ‘Culture, Communications and Political Economy’, pp.60-83. An influential and concise elaboration of contrasting approaches to studying mediaand culture; do you agree with the critical political economy approach they propose? if so,why/not?(ONLY IN 4th EDITION). CLA CompliantDIGITISED extract. Licensed for use by students registered on this course.

Post-colonial Reflections on the ‘Internationalization’ of Cultural Studies - Raka Shome,2009

Article | Essential | An important intervention into some of the ‘de-Westernizing’ and‘decolonization’ debates circulating in our field.

2: Recommended readings (46 items)

Cultural Studies and Political Economy: toward a new integration - Robert E Babe, 2010Book | Recommended | [ON ORDER]

British Marxism and cultural studies: essays on a living tradition - 2016Book | Recommended | [ON ORDER]

Political economy, communication and knowledge: a Latin American perspective - 2012Book | Recommended | [ON ORDER]

The Disneyization of Society - Alan Bryman, 1999Article | Recommended

Global communications: toward a transcultural political economy - 2008Book | Recommended | [ON ORDER]

Cultural studies 50 years on: history, practice and politics - 2016Book | Recommended | MiLib MU

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Production of culture/ cultures of production - Open University. Culture, Media andIdentities Course Team, 1997

Book | Recommended | Especially chapter 2.

Corporations and cultural industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation -Scott W. Fitzgerald, c2012

Book | Recommended | [ON ORDER]

Continents of cultural studies – unite in diversity! Comparing Asian and Europeanexperiences - Johan Fornäs, 2010

Article | Recommended

WikiLeaks and the Critique of the Political Economy - Christian Fuchs, 2014Article | Recommended

The Routledge companion to alternative and community media - Chris Atton, 2015Book | Recommended | Ch 14: 'The political economy of capitalist & alternative social

media', Fuchs, C. & Sandoval, M.

Capitalism and communication: global culture and the economics of information - NicholasGarnham, Fred Inglis, 1990

Book | Recommended | Especially ch 10: ‘Public Policy and the Cultural Industries’, pp.154-168.

Mass media and society - James Curran, Michael Gurevitch, 2005Book | Recommended | Golding, Peter and Murdock, Graham, ‘Culture, Communications

and Political Economy’, pp. 15-32. Other editions available at same classmark.

Critical political economy of communications: A mid-term review - Jonathan Hardy, June2014

Article | Recommended

Critical political economy of the media: an introduction - Jonathan Hardy, 2014Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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Critical political economy of the media: an introduction - Jonathan Hardy, 2013Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

Manufacturing consent: the political economy of the mass media - Edward S Herman,Noam Chomsky, 2002

Book | Recommended | Other editions available at same classmark.

Doing cultural studies: the story of the Sony Walkman - Paul Du Gay, Open University.Faculty of Social Sciences, 1997

Book | Recommended

The cultural industries - David Hesmondhalgh, 2013Book | Recommended | Other editions available at same classmark.

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Creative labour: media work in three cultural industries - David Hesmondhalgh, 2010Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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Creative labour: media work in three cultural industries - David Hesmondhalgh, SarahBaker, 2011

Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

What the digitalisation of music tells us about capitalism, culture and the power of theinformation technology sector - David Hesmondhalgh, Leslie M Meier, 28 June 2017

Article | Recommended

Capitalism and the media: moral economy, well-being and capabilities - DavidHesmondhalgh, 2017

Article | Recommended

De-westernisation, inter-Asian referencing and beyond - Koichi Iwabuchi, 2014Article | Recommended

The audience commodity: on the ‘blindspot’ debate - Bill Livant, Winter/Hiver 1979Article | Recommended

Capitalism and the Information Age - Ben H Bagdikian, December 1998Article | Recommended

The audience commodity in a digital age: revisiting a critical theory of commercial media -2013

Book | Recommended | [ON ORDER]

In Defence of a Political Economy of the Media - Eileen R Meehan, Janet Wasko, 2013Article | Recommended

Blindspots about Western Marxism: a reply to Dallas Smythe - Graham Murdock,Spring-Summer / Printemps-été 1978

Article | Recommended

In Defense of Textual Analysis: Resisting Methodological Hegemony in Media and CulturalStudies - Michelle Phillipov, 2013

Article | Recommended

Sex and money: feminism and political economy in the media - 2002Book | Recommended | Riordan, Ellen, 'Intersections and new directions: On feminism

and political economy', pp. 3-15.

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Sex and money: feminism and political economy in the media - 2002Book | Recommended | Riordan, Ellen, 'Intersections and new directions: On feminism

and political economy', pp. 3-15. PRINT EDITION

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The McDonaldization thesis: explorations and extensions - George Ritzer, 1998Book | Recommended

Politics and the media - 2016Book | Recommended | Rudd, C., 'Political Economy of the Media', pp. 33-47 [ON

ORDER]

The Rationalizing/Racializing Logic of Capital in Cultural Production - Anamik Saha, 2016Article | Recommended

Communications: Blindspot of Western Marxism - Dallas W Smythe, Fall / Automne 1977Article | Recommended

What's become of cultural studies? - Graeme Turner, 2012Book | Recommended

Critical Crossroads or Parallel Routes?: Political Economy and New Approaches to StudyingMedia Industries and Cultural Products - Janet Wasko, Eileen R Meehan, 2013

Article | Recommended

The Political Economies of Media : The Transformation of the Global Media Industries -2011

Book | Recommended

Communication and empire: media, markets, and globalization, 1860-1930 - Dwayne RoyWinseck, Robert M. Pike, 2007

Book | Recommended | [ON ORDER]

Reconstructing the Political Economy of Communication for the Digital Media Age -Dwayne Roy Winseck, 2016

Article | Recommended

Knowledge workers in contemporary China: reform and resistance in the publishingindustry - Jianhua Yao, 2014

Book | Recommended

Comparing media systems beyond the Western world - 2012Book | Recommended | Zhao, Y., ‘Understanding China’s Media System in a World

Historical Context’, pp. 143–173.

3. Media histories and medium theory (25 items)

3: Key readings (4 items)

Marshall McLuhan Then and Now - W J T Mitchell, 2014

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Article | Essential | A very brief essay that highlights some of McLuhan’s most potentinsights.

Handbook of Cultural Sociology - 2012Book | Essential | Meyrowitz, Joshua, ‘Media Evolution and Cultural Change’, pp. 52-63.

A concise overview of media histories the author who coined the term, ‘medium theory’.DIGITISED extract. Licensed for use by students registered on this course.

Television: technology and cultural form - Raymond Williams, Ederyn Williams, 2003Book | Essential | Chapter 1, ‘Television and the Society’, pp. 9-43.

A classic argument against banal technological determinism by one of the most importantpioneers of cultural studies. The arguments in this book continue to inspire writers aboutnew media.

Who’s Afraid of Technological Determinism? Another Look at Medium Theory - John Potts,2008

Article | Essential | A useful overview of the debate as a whole – but think about howthings might have moved on in the last decade…

3: Recommended reading (21 items)

Technological determinism and social change: communication in a tech-mad world - 2014Book | Recommended | [ON ORDER]

Media Archaeology, Cultural Techniques, and the Middle Ages: An Approach to the Studyof Media before the Media - Erik Born, May 2016

Article | Recommended

Technology and Ideology: The Case of the Telegraph - James W Carey, October 1983Article | Recommended | A ‘seminal’ essay in medium theory – well worth reading.

From ‘a box in the theater of the world’ to ‘the world as your living room’: cellular phones,television and mobile privatization - Stephen Groening, 2010

Article | Recommended

How we think: digital media and contemporary technogenesis - Katherine Hayles, 2012Book | Recommended

Towards an Ontology of Media - Friedrich Kittler, 2009Article | Recommended

Non-media-centric media studies: A cross-generational conversation - Zlatan Krajina,Shaun Moores, David Morley, 2014

Article | Recommended

Listening publics: the politics and experience of listening in the media age - Kate Lacey,2013

Book | Recommended

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Keywords: A Journal of Cultural Materialism - 2013Journal | Recommended | ‘Media Technology and Cultural Form: Guest Editor’s Preface’,

pp. 7-11.A special issue on the 40th anniversary of William’s Television book.

The language of new media - Lev Manovich, 2002Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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The language of new media - Lev Manovich, 2001Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

Understanding media: the extensions of man - Marshall McLuhan, 2013Book | Recommended | 'The Medium is the Message'. e-BOOK

ALTERNATIVE FORMAT:

Understanding media: the extensions of man - Marshall McLuhan, 2001Book | Recommended | 'The Medium is the Message'. PRINT EDITION.

The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects - Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore,2001

Book | Recommended

Marvelous Clouds : toward a philosophy of elemental media - John Durham Peters, 2015Book | Recommended | Especially Chapter 1: ‘Understanding Media’. e-BOOK

The marvelous clouds: toward a philosophy of elemental media - John Durham Peters,2015

Book | Recommended | Especially Chapter 1: ‘Understanding Media’. PRINT EDITION

Mobile Transformations of `Public' and `Private' Life - Mimi Sheller, John Urry, 2003Article | Recommended

Communicative Affordances of Mobile Media: Portability, Availability, Locatability, andMultimediality - Andrew Richard Schrock, 2015

Article | Recommended

MP3: the meaning of a format - Jonathan Sterne, 2012Book | Recommended

4. Cultures and contexts of media production (25 items)

4: Key reading (4 items)

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Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Benedict R.O'G Anderson, 2016

Book | Essential | One of the most cited books in the field – and widely reproducedonline; it’s a short, readable book, so read it all if you can, but certainly the first 3chapters. There is a lot of fascinating historical and empirical detail, but in preparing forthe seminar, try to concentrate on the main thrust of the argument. [Other editions atsame shelf-mark]

The Mediation of Nationhood: Communicating the World as a World of Nations - MichaelSkey, February 2014

Article | Essential | This article builds on Anderson’s legacy to explore how the idea ofnation is sustained in, through and despite contemporary media.

The ongoing significance of national media systems in the context of media globalization -Terry Flew, Silvio Waisbord, 2015

Article | Essential | Given how so much modern media travels across national borders,what place does the national still hold in the global context?

Television, Technology, and Culture: A Contextualist Approach - David Morley, 2012Article | Recommended | An important reminder that technological ‘progress’ does not

unfold universally across time and space.

4: Recommended reading (21 items)

Multi-contextual lives: Transnational identifications under mediatised conditions - MagnusAndersson, 2013

Article | Recommended | An essay that mobilises some key terms in media studies, like‘mediatisation’, ‘deterritorialisation’ and ‘everyday life’, and demonstrates aninterview-based methodology to address questions of media, nation and identity.

Communication power - Manuel Castells, 2009Book | Recommended | Part 1: 'Power in the network society'. e-BOOK

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Communication power - Manuel Castells, 2013Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

Irresponsible Radicalisation: Diasporas, Globalisation and Long-Distance Nationalism in theDigital Age - Daniele Conversi, 2012

Article | Recommended

Emancipation, the media, and modernity: arguments about the media and social theory -Nicholas Garnham, 2000

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Book | Recommended | 'Media histories, media theories and modernity'

Telemodernities: television and transforming lives in Asia - Tania Lewis, Fran Martin,Wanning Sun, 2016

Book | Recommended

Building the BRICS: Media, Nation Branding and Global Citizenship — Introduction -Hongmei Li, Leslie L Marsh, 2016

Article | Recommended

Latin america writes back: postmodernity in the periphery - Emil Volek, 2014Book | Recommended | Martin-Barbero, Jesus, 'Communications: Decentering

Modernity'.

The television studies reader - Robert Clyde Allen, Annette Hill, 2004Book | Recommended | pp. 418-441, D.Morley; 'Broadcasting and the construction of

the national family'

Spaces of identity: global media, electronic landscapes and cultural boundaries - DavidMorley, Kevin Robins, 1995

Book | Recommended

Media representation and the global imagination - Shani Orgad, 2014Book | Recommended

Media, state and nation: political violence and collective identities - Philip Schlesinger,1991

Book | Recommended | Esp ch 7: 'On national identity: cultural politics and themediologists'

A social history of British broadcasting | Ch 13: 'The National Culture'Chapter | Recommended | DIGITISED extract. Licensed for use by students registered on

this course.

Unthinking Eurocentrism: multiculturalism and the media - Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, 2014Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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Unthinking Eurocentrism: multiculturalism and the media - Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, 1994Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

Changing Media, Changing China - Susan L Shirk, 2010Book | Recommended

Ethnic media, conflict, and the nation-state: Kurdish broadcasting in Turkey and Europeand mediated nationhood - Kevin Smets, 2016

Article | Recommended

Asian modernities: Culture, politics and media - Raka Shome, 2012Article | Recommended

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Internationalizing media studies - Daya Kishan Thussu, 2009Book | Recommended

5. Defining terms: mass, public, audience, user (17 items)

5: Key reading (4 items)

The Media Audience: A Brief Biography—Stages of Growth or Paradigm Change? - DenisMcQuail, 2013

Article | Essential | Also see other articles in this special issue on ‘Audiences: ACross-Generational Dialogue'.

Users like you? Theorizing agency in user-generated content - José van Dijck, 2009Article | Essential | A critique of hyperbolic claims about the (inter)activity of internet

users.

Everyday media culture in Africa: audiences and users - 2017Book | Essential | 'Decolonizing and provincializing audience and internet studies:

contextual approaches from African vantage points'.

Media life - Mark Deuze, 2011Article | Essential | An intricate argument about the thorough mediatization of

contemporary experience, ie. collapsing the distinction between ‘us’ and ‘the media’.

5: Recommended reading (13 items)

Are We All Produsers Now? - S Elizabeth Bird, 2011Article | Recommended

Alternative media and the question of power - Natalie Fenton, 2016Article | Recommended

FCJ-082 The Models and Politics of Mobile Media - Gerard Goggin, 2008Article | Recommended

Audience-citizens: the media, public knowledge and interpretive practice - RamaswamiHarindranath, 2009

Book | Recommended | ‘Introduction: Media Audiences, Public Knowledge &Democracy’. An overview of debates about audiences as citizens from the perspective of

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Indian democracy.

Giving the “Viewser” a Voice? Situating the Individual in Relation to Personalization,Narrowcasting, and Public Service Broadcasting - Tanya Kant, 2014

Article | Recommended

Listening publics: the politics and experience of listening in the media age - Kate Lacey,2013

Book | Recommended | Esp. ch 1: 'Listening in and listening out'

Mass media and society - James Curran, Michael Gurevitch, 2005Book | Recommended | T.Liebes; 'Viewing and reviewing the audience: fashions in

communication research'

Revisiting 'mass communication' and the 'work' of the audience in the new mediaenvironment - Philip M Napoli, 2010

Article | Recommended | An interesting argument that also offers an overview ofhistorical debates.

Public service broadcasting and modern public life - Paddy Scannell, 1989Article | Recommended | A ‘classic’ essay on the influential BBC model of

conceptualising the audience as a national public in the early 20th century.

Media and communication - Paddy Scannell, 2007Book | Recommended | pp. 7-90, part 1; 'The masses'

Network culture: politics for the information age - Tiziana Terranova, 2004Book | Recommended

From identity to identification: fixating the fragmented self - Liesbet van Zoonen, 2013Article | Recommended

Culture and society, 1780-1950 - Raymond Williams, 1963Book | Recommended | pp. 285-323 'Conclusion'. An influential discussion of the

‘problem’ of the label ‘mass’

6. From media effects to media literacies (38 items)

6: Key readings (4 items)

Culture, media, language: working papers in cultural studies, 1972-79 - Stuart Hall,University of Birmingham. Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 1980

Book | Essential | Hall, S; ‘Encoding/decoding’, pp. 128–138.This is a seminal text in our field – and one that still rewards our attention, albeit one thatis, of course, marked in its vocabulary, object and concerns by its historical moment. It is

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widely reproduced, and you can find plenty of commentaries on it, if you find its languageand references challenging.

Uses and Grats 2.0: New Gratifications for New Media - S Shyam Sundar, Anthony MLimperos, 2013

Article | Recommended | Uses and gratifications is one of the audience research modelsthat has long been criticised from a cultural studies perspective for its over-emphasis onthe individual. Do you agree with the argument that it could have new relevance in an eraof social media?

A state of flux: Histories of social media research - Stine Lomborg, 2017Article | Essential | Although it can still be tempting to speak of ‘new media’, this is a

useful reminder that even social media and their analyses have their histories.

Populism, extremism and media: Mapping an uncertain terrain - Claudia Alvares, PeterDahlgren, 2016

Article | Essential | This is just one attempt among many that tries to assess what rolethe media in their various guises have played in the recent rise in populist politics.

6: Recommended readings (34 items)

Audiences: a sociological theory of performance and imagination - Nicholas Abercrombie,Brian Longhurst, 1998

Book | Recommended

Transnational audiences: media reception on a global scale - Adrian Athique, 2016Book | Recommended | e-BOOK. [ON ORDER]

The dynamics and potentials of big data for audience research - Adrian Athique, 2017Article | Recommended

Desperately seeking the audience - Ien Ang, 1991Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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Desperately seeking the audience - Ien Ang, 1991Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

Ill effects: the media/violence debate - Martin Barker, Julian Petley, 1997Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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Ill effects: the media/violence debate - Julian Petley, Martin Barker, 2001Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

Audience responses to media diversification: coping with plenty - 1989

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Book | [ON ORDER]

The active audience, again: Player-centric game studies and the problem of binarism -Bryan G Behrenshausen, 2013

Article | Recommended

The Nationwide television studies - David Morley, Charlotte Brunsdon, David Morley,Charlotte Brunsdon, MyiLibrary, 1999

Book | Recommended | e-BOOK [ON ORDER]

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The Nationwide television studies - David Morley, Charlotte Brunsdon, 1999Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

Feminist reception studies in a post-audience age: returning to audiences and everydaylife - Andre Cavalcante, Andrea Press, Katherine Sender, 2017

Article | Recommended

Audiencing: A cultural studies approach to watching television - John Fiske, August 1992Article | Recommended

We the media: grassroots journalism by the people, for the people - Dan Gillmor, 2006Book | Recommended

Questions of method in cultural studies - Mimi White, James Schwoch, 2006Book | Recommended | Hartley, J: '‘Read thy Self’: Text, Audience, and Method in

Cultural Studies'.

Burst of the Filter Bubble?: Effects of personalization on the diversity of Google News -Mario Haim, Andreas Graefe, Hans-Bernd Brosius, 2017

Article | Recommended | DIGITISED extract. Licensed for use by students registered onthis course.

Ethnicity and cultural difference: Some thematic and political issues on global audienceresearch - Ramaswami Harindranath, December 2005

Article | Recommended

Media and Convergence Management - Sandra Diehl, 2013Book | Recommended | Hasebrink, U. & Hölig, S: 'Conceptualizing audiences in

convergent media environments'. [ON ORDER]

Technologies, Texts and Affordances - Ian Hutchby, May 2001Article | Recommended

Defining and measuring youth digital citizenship - Lisa M Jones, Kimberly J Mitchell, 2016Article | Recommended

War of the worlds to social media: mediated communication in times of crisis - WendyHilton-Morrow, 2013

Book | Recommended | Lacey, Kate, ‘Assassination, Insurrection and Alien Invasion:

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Wireless Scares in Cross-National Comparison’. pp. 57-82. DIGITISED extract. Licensed foruse by students registered on this course.

Actors, actants, audiences, and activities in cross-media news work: A matrix and aresearch agenda - Seth C Lewis, Oscar Westlund, 16 July 2014

Article | Recommended

Making sense of television: the psychology of audience interpretation - Sonia M.Livingstone, 1998

Book | Recommended

Active Audiences? The Debate Progresses But Is Far From Resolved - Sonia Livingstone,November 2015

Article | Recommended

Setting the agenda: the mass media and public opinion - Maxwell E McCombs, 2014Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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Setting the agenda: the mass media and public opinion - Maxwell E. McCombs, 2014Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

The filter bubble: what the Internet is hiding from you - Eli Pariser, 2012Book | Recommended

Media effects and society - Elizabeth M. Perse, Jennifer L. Lambe, 2017Book | Recommended | ON ORDER

The Routledge companion to cinema and gender - 2017Book | Recommended | Staiger, J; The emergence of reception studies in relation to

feminism. ON ORDER

Taking stock and showcasing communication research on Asia for a global audience - RanWei, 2016-11

Article | Recommended

7: Introduction to research issues (21 items)

7: Recommended overviews (21 items)

Media research methods: understanding metric and interpretive approaches - James AAnderson, c2012

Book | Recommended

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Media theories and approaches: a global perspective - Mark Balnaves, Brian Shoesmith,Stephanie Donald, 2008

Book | Recommended

Qualitative researching with text, image and sound : a practical handbook - Martin WBauer, George Gaskell, 2000

Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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Qualitative researching with text, image and sound: a practical handbook - Martin WBauer, George Gaskell, 2000

Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

Media and communication research methods: an introduction to qualitative andquantitative approaches - Arthur Asa Berger, 2011

Book | Recommended

Qualitative research methods for media studies - Bonnie Brennen, 2012Book | Recommended

To be supeceded by:

Qualitative research methods for media studies - Bonnie Brennen, 2017Book | Recommended | NEW ED. ON ORDER

Researching communications: a practical guide to methods in media and cultural analysis -David Deacon, 2007

Book | Recommended

The handbook of media and communication research: qualitative and quantitativemethodologies - Klaus Bruhn Jensen, 2012

Book | Recommended | e-BOOK. [ON ORDER]

A handbook of media and communication research: qualitative and quantitativemethodologies - Klaus Bruhn Jensen, 2012

Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

The ethics of Internet research: a rhetorical, case-based process - Heidi A McKee, James EPorter, 2009

Book | Recommended

Practical research methods for media and cultural studies: making people count -Maire Messenger Davies, Nick Mosdell, c2006

Book | Recommended

Digital ethnography: principles and practice - Sarah Pink, Heather A. Horst, John Postill,Larissa Hjorth, Tania Lewis, Jo Tacchi, 2016

Book | Recommended | ON ORDER

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Doing media research: an introduction - Susanna Hornig Priest, 2010Book | Recommended

Visual methodologies: an introduction to researching with visual materials - Gillian Rose,2016

Book | Recommended | Other editions available at the same shelf-mark

The SAGE handbook of qualitative research - 2018Book | Recommended | Saukko, Paula, 'Methodologies for Cultural and Social Studies in

an Age of New Technologies'. Other editions available at same classmark.

Qualitative research practice - Clive Seale, Giampietro Gobo, Jaber F Gubrium, DavidSliverman, 2007

Book | Recommended

Media effects research: a basic overview - Glenn Grayson Sparks, c2013Book | Recommended

Questions of method in cultural studies - Mimi White, James Schwoch, 2006Book | Recommended | (cf: 'Raymond Williams's Culture and society as research

method', J D Peters | 'Taking Audience Research into the Age of New Media’, A Press & SLivingstone | "Read thy self.", J Hartley)

8: Mass culture/popular culture (20 items)

8: Key readings (5 items)

Canonic texts in media research | Ch 3: 'The subtlety of Horkheimer and Adorno: reading"The culture industry".' - John Durham Peters

Chapter | Essential | DIGITISED extract. Licensed for use by students registered on thiscourse.

Dialectic of enlightenment: philosophical fragments - Max Horkheimer, Theodor W Adorno,Gunzelin Schmid Noerr, 2002

Book | Essential | M.Horkheimer and T.Adorno, 'The culture industry: enlightenment asmass deception'

Critical theory and the digital - David M Berry, 2014Book | Recommended | ‘From Culture Industry to Computational Industries’.

e-BOOK

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Critical theory and the digital - David M Berry, 2014Book | Recommended | ‘From Culture Industry to Computational Industries’.

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8: Recommended readings (15 items)

Introduction to the sociology of music - Theodor W Adorno, 1976Book | Recommended | pp. 21-38 'Popular music'

The culture industry: selected essays on mass culture - Theodor W Adorno, J M Bernstein,2001

Book | Recommended | Especially 'Culture industry reconsidered'

Illuminations - Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, 1999Book | Recommended | pp. 219-254: 'The work of art in the age of mechanical

reproduction'. A hugely important essay, that in some respects counters the culturalpessimism of Adorno and Horkheimer

Revisiting the Frankfurt School - David Berry, 2012Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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Revisiting the Frankfurt School: essays on culture, media and theory - David Berry, 2011Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

Information and Communication Technologies and Society: A Contribution to the Critiqueof the Political Economy of the Internet - Christian Fuchs, 2009

Article | Recommended

Cultural studies: two paradigms - Stuart Hall, 1980Article | Recommended

Cultural theory and popular culture | Ch. 45: 'Notes on deconstructing 'the popular'' -Stuart Hall

Chapter | Recommended | A classic collection of essays including Matthew Arnold,‘Culture & Anarchy’ & Raymond Williams, ‘Analysis of Culture’.DIGITISED extract. Licensed for use by students registered on this course.

Stuart Hall's “Deconstructing the Popular”: Reconsiderations 30 Years Later - JaysonHarsin, Mark Hayward, June 2013

Article | Recommended

Precautions against Fan(atic)s: A Reevaluation of Adorno's Uncompromising Philosophy ofPopular Culture - James Hellings, Winter 2013

Article | Recommended

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Critical theory, Marxism and modernity - Douglas Kellner, 1989Book | Recommended | 'From Authentic Art to the Culture Industries'.

The Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed Articulation - Douglas Kellner, 2005

Article | Recommended | A very clear account of the connections and differences ofthese two ‘Schools’.

Just Gaming: Allegory and Economy in Computer Games - Julian Stallabrass, March-April1993

Article | Recommended | Resonates with the culture industry critique.

Inventing popular culture : from folklore to globalization - John Storey, 2003Book | Recommended

9. Media publics and cultural citizenship (31 items)

9: Key reading (3 items)

The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article (1964) - Jurgen Habermas, Sara Lennox, FrankLennox, Autumn 1974

Article | Essential

Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics - Jodi Dean, March2005

Article | Essential

Cultural Citizenship at the Intersection of Television and New Media - Jingsi Christina Wu,2013

Article | Essential

9: Recommended readings (28 items)

Habermas and the public sphere - Craig J Calhoun, c1992Book | Recommended | J.Habermas; 'Further reflections on the public sphere' - Check

out the other chapters too.

Media and public spheres - Richard Butsch, 2009Book | Recommended

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The media and the public: "them" and "us" in media discourse - Stephen Coleman, KarenRoss, 2010

Book | Recommended

Public knowledge and popular culture: spaces and tensions - John Corner, 2009Article | Recommended

Rethinking the fragmentation of the cyberpublic: from consensus to contestation - LincolnDahlberg, 2007

Article | Recommended

Mediated citizenship: power, practices, and identities - Peter Dahlgren, 2011Article | Recommended | Not in stock

Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy- Nancy Fraser

Article | Recommended | An important discussion of ‘counterpublics’; reproducedwidely.

The creative citizen unbound: how social media contribute to civics, democracy andcreative communities - 2016

Book | Recommended

Hidden Debates: Rethinking the Relationship between Popular Culture and the PublicSphere - Joke Hermes, 2006

Article | Recommended | A good survey of the key themes and a proposal for moreethnographic research to address the debate.

Rethinking 'Rethinking Convergence/Culture' - Henry Jenkins, 2014Article | Recommended | A spirited defence of his position on participatory culture in

response to a special issue on ‘convergence culture’, and a good example of an academicdebate in progress.

On the relation between audiences and publics - Sonia M Livingstone, 2005Document | Recommended

ALTERNATIVE FORMAT:

Audience and publics: when cultural engagement matters for the public sphere - 2005Book | Recommended | Ch 1: 'On the relation between audiences and publics', S M

Livingstone. e-BOOK

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Audiences and publics: when cultural engagement matters for the public sphere - 2005Book | Recommended | Ch 1: 'On the relation between audiences and publics', S M

Livingstone. PRINT EDITION

Media studies' fascination with the concept of the public sphere: critical reflections andemerging debates - Peter Lunt, Sonia Livingstone, 2013

Article | Recommended

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Technologies of truth: cultural citizenship and the popular media - Toby Miller, 1998Book | Recommended

Cultural citizenship: cosmopolitanism, consumerism, and television in a neoliberal age -Toby Miller, 2007

Book | Recommended

A private sphere: democracy in a digital age - Zizi Papacharissi, 2013Book | Recommended

Distrust of representation: Habermas on the public sphere - John Durham Peters, 1993Article | Recommended | An insightful commentary, highly recommended.

Public Sphere ForumWebsite | Recommended | A really useful resource.

Racial/ethnic identity, community-oriented media initiatives, and transmedia storytelling -Srividya Ramasubramanian, 2016

Article | Recommended

DIY citizenship: critical making and social media - 2014Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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DIY citizenship: critical making and social media - 2014Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION. ON ORDER

A new ‘Europe from below’? Cosmopolitan citizenship, digital media and the indignadossocial movement - Maria Rovisco, July 2016

Article | Recommended

Twitter and society - 2014Book | Recommended | Ch 1: 'Twitter and the rise of personal publics', Schmidt J.H. ON

ORDER

Entertaining the citizen: when politics and popular culture converge - Liesbet van Zoonen,c2005

Book | Recommended | pp. 1-18: 'Distinctions'. A thought-provoking and accessibleintervention into the debate.

10. Media, crisis and composure (29 items)

10: Key reading (3 items)

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Logics of television: essays in cultural criticism - Patricia Mellencamp, 1990Book | Essential | M.A.Doane 'Information, crisis, catastrophe'

Taking global crises in the news seriously: Notes from the dark side of globalization -Simon Cottle, 2011

Article | Essential

Your search – ‘Ontological Security’ – matched 111,000 documents: An empiricalsubstantiation of the cultural dimension of online search - Esteve Sanz, Juraj Stančík, 2014

Article | Essential

10. Recommended reading (26 items)

Online news: journalism and the Internet - Stuart Allan, 2006Book | Recommended

Re-imagining crisis reporting: Professional ideology of journalists and citizen eyewitnessimages - Kari Andén-Papadopoulos, Mervi Pantti, 2013

Article | Recommended

L'esprit du terrorisme - Jean Baudrillard, 03 novembre 2001Article | Recommended | Original article available via Nexis resource

Alternative resource:

The Spirit of Terrorism - Jean Baudrillard, Chris Turner, 03 November 2001Article | Recommended | English translation of the original article

Alternative resource:

The spirit of terrorism and other essays - Jean Baudrillard, 2003Book | Recommended | Other editions available at same classmark.

Global crisis reporting: journalism in the global age - Simon Cottle, 2009Book | Recommended

Rethinking media and disasters in a global age: What’s changed and why it matters -Simon Cottle, 2014

Article | Recommended

Logics of television: essays in cultural criticism - Patricia Mellencamp, 1990Book | Recommended | Doane, Mary Ann; ‘Information, Crisis, Catastrophe’.

News media, threats and insecurities: an ethnographic approach - Marie Gillespie, BenO'Loughlin, 2009

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Article | Recommended

Performing terror, anti-terror, and public affect: Towards an analytical framework - RHarindranath, 2011

Article | Recommended

Temporality, Proximity and Security: Terror in a Media-Drenched Age - Andrew Hoskins,2006

Article | Recommended

War and Media : the emergence of diffused war - Andrew Hoskins, Ben O'Loughlin, 2010Book | Recommended | e-BOOK. [ON ORDER]

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War and media: the emergence of diffused war - Andrew Hoskins, Ben O'Loughlin, 2010Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

9/11, Spectacles of Terror, and Media Manipulation: A critique of Jihadist and Bush mediapolitics - Douglas Kellner, 2004

Article | Recommended

Performance Journalism: The Case of Media's Coverage of War and Terror - Tamar Liebes,Zohar Kampf, 2009

Article | Recommended

The CNN effect reconsidered (again): problematizing ICT and global governance in theCNN effect research agenda - Steven Livingston, 2011

Article | Recommended

War and the media: reporting conflict 24/7 - Daya Kishan Thussu, Des Freedman, 2003Book | Recommended | Madger, Ted; pp. 28-44: 'Watching what we say: Global

communication in a time of fear'

Digital war reporting | Ch 1: 'New wars, new reporting' - Donald MathesonChapter | Recommended | DIGITISED extract. Licensed for use by students registered on

this course.

Selling Fear : counterterrorism, the media, and public opinion - Brigitte L Nacos, YaeliBloch-Elkon, Robert Y Shapiro, 2011

Book | Recommended

Selling war: the role of the mass media in hostile conflicts from World War I to the 'War onTerror' - 2013

Book | Recommended | Seib, Philip; ‘Delivering War to the Public: Shaping the PublicSphere’, pp. 1-14.

Unveiling imperialism: media, gender and the war on Afghanistan - Carol A Stabile, DeepaKumar, 2005

Article | Recommended

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News, public relations and power - Simon Cottle, 2003Book | Essential | pp. 63-80, Taylor, M P; 'Journalism under fire: the reporting of war and

international crisis'

The new breed of Chinese war correspondents: Their motivations and roles, and theimpact of digital technology - Shixin Ivy Zhang, 2013

Article | Recommended

11. Media, morality, ethics: questions of representation (24 items)

11: Key reading (5 items)

Media and morality: on the rise of the mediapolis - Roger Silverstone, 2013Book | Essential | 'Morality and media' and, ideally, 'The mediapolis and the space of

appearance'. e-BOOK

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Media and morality: on the rise of the mediapolis - Roger Silverstone, 2007Book | Essential | 'Morality and media' and, ideally, 'The mediapolis and the space of

appearance'. PRINT EDITION

"Witnessing" or "Mediating" Distant Suffering? Ethical Questions across Moments of Text,Production, and Reception - Jonathan Corpus Ong, 2014

Article | Essential

Moral cosmopolitanism and the everyday life: how students encounter distant others -Robin Vandevoordt, April 27, 2017

Article | Essential

11: Recommended reading (19 items)

Distant suffering: morality, media and politics - Luc Boltanski, 1999Book | Recommended

Communication, global justice and the moral economy - Andrew Calabrese, 2005Article | Recommended

The spectatorship of suffering - Lilie Chouliaraki, 2006

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Book | Recommended | 'Introduction: distant suffering on television

The Mediation of Suffering and the Vision of a Cosmopolitan Public - Lilie Chouliaraki, 2008Article | Recommended

The ironic spectator: solidarity in the age of post-humanitarianism - Lilie Chouliaraki, 2013Book | Recommended | e-BOOK

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The ironic spectator: solidarity in the age of post-humanitarianism - Lilie Chouliaraki, 2013Book | Recommended | PRINT EDITION

States of denial: knowing about atrocities and suffering - Stanley Cohen, 2001Book | Recommended

Listening beyond the echoes: media, ethics, and agency in an uncertain world - NickCouldry, 2006

Book | Recommended

Television and the moral imaginary: society through the small screen - Tim Dant, 2012Book | Recommended

Seeing things: television in the age of uncertainty - John Ellis, 2000Book | Recommended

Media witnessing: testimony in the age of mass communication - Paul Frosh, AmitPinchevski, 2011

Book | Recommended

News as a looking-glass: Shame and the symbolic power of mediation - Mirca Madianou,2011

Article | Recommended

The cosmopolitan continuum: locating cosmopolitanism in media and cultural studies -Jonathan Corpus Ong, 2009

Article | Recommended

Proper distance from ourselves: The potential for estrangement in the mediapolis - ShaniOrgad, 2011

Article | Recommended

Witnessing - John Durham Peters, 2001Article | Recommended

Digital media revisited: theoretical and conceptual innovation in digital domains - GunnarLiestøl, Andrew Morrison, Terje Rasmussen, 2004

Book | Recommended | R.Silverstone; 'Proper distance: towards an ethics forcyberspace'.

Bearing witness, journalism and moral responsibility - Sue Tait, 2011

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Article | Recommended

Beyond connection: Cultural cosmopolitan and ubiquitous media - John Tomlinson, 2011Article | Recommended

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