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Rethinking Media and Communication

A Critical Sociological Lens

Series:  Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 355
Cover Rethinking Media and Communication
E-Book ISBN:
9789004748545
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
06 Jan 2026
  • Subjects
    • Media Studies
      • General
      • Media Theory
    • Social Sciences
      • Critical Social Sciences
      • Sociology & Anthropology
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Figures, Tables, and Diagrams
Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 1 Setting the Scene
Chapter 2 Contested Legacies – Marxian Influences on the Sociology of Media and Communication
Part 2 Abstraction and Fetish
Chapter 3 Between Capital and the Lifeworld: Contradictions of Value-Regulated Social Interactions
Chapter 4 Theorising a Multidimensional Model for Analysing Data Fetishism: Reconciling Marxist and Freudian Approaches to the ‘Split’
Chapter 5 Actio in distans: a Critical Node of Technological and Social Mediation
Part 3 Dominance and Counter-Dominance
Chapter 6 From the Iron Cage to the Silicon Cage: New Forms of Domination within Hypermediated Societies
Chapter 7 Legal Determination of Forms in Software and Communication: between Public and Capital
Part 4 Public Opinion, Public Sphere and Communicative Activity
Chapter 8 Fast and Shallow: towards a Critical Theory of Opinion
Chapter 9 Activity Theory in the Digital Age: Can Communication and Data Be Expropriated, Exploited, or Alienated?
Part 5 Non-Western Directions in the Critical Sociology of Media and Communication
Chapter 10 Ibn Khaldûn and the Political Economy of Communication in the Age of Digital Capitalism
Chapter 11 Ibn Khaldûn Revisited: Responding to Christian Fuchs
Chapter 12 Ibn Khaldûn and the Political Economy of Communication: a Reply to Graham Murdock
Chapter 13 Re-reading Ibn Khaldûn in Critical Times
Chapter 14 Critical Sociological and Media Studies: How Latin America Learned to Contest Power from the Periphery
Part 6 Re-focusing the Sociology of Media and Communication Debate
Chapter 15 Dialectics of the Symbolic: Michel Freitag and the Critique of Communication
Chapter 16 Re-examining News Sources in the Sociology of the Media: a Political Economy of Communication Approach
Chapter 17 Narrating the Field of Communication: Charting an Unstable Territory
Back Matter
Index

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