Re-Inventing the Media

Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era. While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologies, these constitute only part of the transformations that have taken place in what amounts of a reinvention of the media over the last two decades. Graeme Turner takes on the task of re-thinking how media studies approaches the whole of the contemporary media-scape by focusing on three large, cross-platform, and transnational themes: the decline of the mass media paradigm, the ongoing restructuring of the relations between the media and the state, and the structural and social consequences of celebrity culture. By addressing the fact that the reinvention of the media is not simply a matter of globalising markets or the take-up of technological change, Turner is able to explore the more fundamental movements and widespread trends that have significantly influenced the character of what the contemporary media have become, how it is structured, and how it is used. Re-Inventing the Media is a must-read for both students and scholars of media, culture and communication studies. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Re-inventing the media The decline of the mass media paradigm The media and the state The consequences of celebrity culture Notes Part I: Rethinking the media 1. Rethinking media theory Convergence Mediatisation Commercialisation, the public good and media power Notes 2. Entertainment, information and the ‘culture of search’ News, entertainment and the public good The commodification of information and the ‘culture of search’ Conclusion Notes Part II: The media and the nation-state 3. The media, the nation and globalisation Television and the nation-state Globalisation, the media and modernity Conclusion Notes 4. Rethinking media regulation Privacy, journalism and the public interest The media and democracy Conclusion Notes Part III: The consequences of celebrity 5. The celebrification of the media Producing ‘celebrity news’ The rise of the image Gossip as news Conclusion Notes 6. Intervening in the social: The function of celebrity culture The ordinary celebrity Reacting to reality TV Celebrity, status and a presence online Conclusion Notes Conclusion: Teaching the re-invented media The re-invented media: what has it become? TV studies, new media studies and the divided curriculum Unifying the divided curriculum Conclusion Bibliography Index Introduction : Re-inventing The Media -- Part I. Rethinking The Media. Rethinking Media Theory ; Entertainment, Informaiton And The 'culture Of Search' -- Part Ii. The Media And The Nation-state. The Media, The Nation And Globalisation ; Rethinking Media Regulation -- Part Iii. The Consequences Of Celebrity. The Celebrification Of The Media ; Intervening In The Social : The Function Of Celebrity Culture -- Conclusion : Teaching The Re-invented Media. Graeme Turner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Provides an original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era.While media and cultural studies has made much of the changes to the media landscape that have come from digital technologies, these constitute only part of the transformations that have taken place Pt. 1. Rethinking the media -- pt. 2. The media and the nation-state -- pt. 3. The consequences of celebrity