Re-Inventing the Media [Hardcover]

Introduction: Re-Inventing the Media

Part I: Rethinking the Media

1. Rethinking Media Theory

2. Entertainment, information, and the culture of search

3. The Media, the Nation, and Globalization

4. Rethinking Media Regulation

Part III: The Consequences of Celebrity

5. The Celebrification of the Media

6. Intervening in the Social: the function of celebrity culture

What is the media? and What is media studies? : two huge, challenging questions that require the likes of Graeme Turner to answer properly. And he delivers the goods with thoughtful and insightfully sweeping commentary on precisely whats new and different, whats not. This is a book we should all be reading.

Jonathan Gray, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin  Madison

At last, an introduction to media studies that doesn't treat the digital era as an after-thought or something entirely separate from what came before. Turner begins the necessary task of re-centering media studies as it is and will be, rather than as it was.

Amanda Lotz, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Michigan

Graeme Turner is among the leading theorists and analysts of media culture today, yesterdayand probably tomorrow, as well. Re-Inventing the Media offers a judicious yet lively, scholarly yet readable, timely, and sage view of what is happening in our complel#’