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A centralidade da mídia, de toda mídia, para a experiência humana - da conduta na vida cotidiana ao exercício do poder e à criação de cultura - é inescapável. Vivemos num mundo intensivamente midiatizado. E apesar disso os estudos acadêmicos sobre mídia raramente se tornam acessíveis e relevantes para os muitos que estão fora da limitada esfera dos muros universitários. Eles são não poucas vezes considerados incapazes de nos dizer algo de substantivo sobre o mundo em que vivemos. Escrito em tom de manifesto, este livro busca definir uma nova agenda intelectual e a importância da mídia para nossa cultura, para nossa sociedade, e a conseqüente necessidade de levar a mídia a sério, como objeto de rigorosa investigação.

302 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

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August 8, 2007

This book presents an excellent argument as to why studying the media requires more than the often simplistic treatment it receives in the social sciences (see for instance Moss' work). Media cannot just be ignored or treated as being carried over a neutral transmission medium, nor can we take for granted the form of the medium. New media has obviously raised these issues in startling new ways (in terms of remediation in particular) but the difficulty of placing the media within a methodological framework of analysis without lapsing into sociologism or technologism (to use Latour's terms) show the importance of developing methodology in relation to media/medium scholarship. A great place to start to get up to speed on contemporary debates about media studies.


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