Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change
This book explores current debates about media, power and change from a wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. Sharing a common set of concerns which are mobilised to defend core societal values including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and humanity authors raise questions about how the omnipresent media can contribute to the materialisation of these core values, and how it can sometimes work against them. Addressing issues such as rethinking social change, mediatisation and regulation, the authors demonstrate how the role of the critical media and communication scholar merits and requires (self-)reflection. Critical voices matter, but they also face structural limitations.
This book was originally published as two special issues of Javnost: The Public.
Ilija Tomani Trivunda is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and President of the European Communication Research and Education Association.
Hannu Nieminen is Professor of Media and Communications Policy, and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
Nico Carpentier is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. He also holds part-time positions at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Josef Trappel is Professor of Media Policy and Media Economics, and Head of the Department of Communication Studies, at the University of Salzburg, Austria.
Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change
Edited by
Ilija Tomani Trivunda, Hannu Nieminen,
Nico Carpentier and Josef Trappel
First published 2018
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Contents
PART 1
Communication power and inequality
Robin Mansell
Marko Ampuja
Paschal Preston
John Downey
Nico Carpentier
PART 2
Mediatisation and change
Friedrich Krotz
Graham Murdock
Gianpietro Mazzoleni
PART 3
Media, change and regulation
Peter Bajomi-Lazar
Hannu Nieminen
PART 4
Critical scholarship in media and communication studies
Des Freedman
Kaarle Nordenstreng
Ed McLuskie
The following chapters were originally published in Javnost: The Public. When citing this material, please use the original volume, issue, date of publication and page numbering for each article, as follows:
Inequality and Digitally Mediated Communication: Divides, Contradictions and Consequences
Robin Mansell
Javnost: The Public, volume 24, issue 2 (June 2017) pp. 146161
The New Spirit of Capitalism, Innovation Fetishism and New Information and CommunicationTechnologies
Marko Ampuja
Javnost: The Public, volume 23, issue 1 (April 2016) pp. 1936
Inequality and Liberal Democracy: A Critical Take on Economic and Political Power Aspects
Paschal Preston
Javnost: The Public, volume 23, issue 1 (April 2016) pp. 3755
For Public Communication: Promises and Perils of Public Engagement
John Downey
Javnost: The Public, volume 24, issue 2 (June 2017) pp. 173185
Beyond the Ladder of Participation: An Analytical Toolkit for the Critical Analysis of Participatory
Media Processes
Nico Carpentier
Javnost: The Public, volume 23, issue 1 (April 2016) pp. 7088
Explaining the Mediatisation Approach
Friedrich Krotz
Javnost: The Public, volume 24, issue 2 (June 2017) pp. 103118
Mediatisation and the Transformation of Capitalism: The Elephant in the Room
Graham Murdock
Javnost: The Public, volume 24, issue 2 (June 2017) pp. 119135
Changes in Contemporary Communication Ecosystems Ask for a New Look at the Concept of Mediatisation
Gianpietro Mazzoleni
Javnost: The Public, volume 24, issue 2 (June 2017) pp. 136145
Particularistic and Universalistic Media Policies: Inequalities in the Media in Hungary
Peter Bajomi-Lazar
Javnost: The Public, volume 24, issue 2 (June 2017) pp. 162172
A Radical Democratic Reform of Media Regulation in Response to Three Levels of Crisis
Hannu Nieminen
Javnost: The Public, volume 23, issue 1 (April 2016) pp. 5669
Put a Ring on It! Why We Need More Commitment in Media Scholarship
Des Freedman
Javnost: The Public, volume 24, issue 2 (June 2017) pp. 186197
Being (Truly) Critical in Media and Communication Studies: Reflections of a Media ScholarBetween Science and Politics
Kaarle Nordenstreng
Javnost: The Public, volume 23, issue 1 (April 2016) pp. 89104
Grounding Communication Studies in Enlightenment Criticality: Scaling Up Theoretical and Dialectical Ambition
Ed McLuskie
Javnost: The Public, volume 23, issue 1 (April 2016) pp. 118
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Marko Ampuja is a Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies in the Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Peter Bajomi-Lazar is Head of the Institute of Social Sciences and Professor of Mass Communication at the Budapest Business School, Budapest, Hungary.
Nico Carpentier is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. He also holds part-time positions at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, and Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.