Hesmondhalgh, David and Toynbee, Jason
(2008). Why media studies needs better social theory.
In: Hesmondhalgh, David and Toynbee, Jason eds.
The Media and Social Theory.
Culture, Economy and the Social (1).
London: Routledge, pp. 1–24.
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Abstract
Media studies has lost contact with social theory since the emergence of the field in the 1970s. This chapter argues for a return to engagement with that body of work in order counter both the media-centrism and sectarianism which characterise the contemporary field. In so doing it suggests a renewed focus in media scholarship on causality and social norms via, among other approaches, contemporary critical realism and third generation critical theory.
| Item Type: |
Book Chapter
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| Copyright Holders: |
2008 David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee |
| ISBN: |
0-415-44800-X, 978-0-415-44800-0 |
| Keywords: |
Media studies; social theory; media-centrism; critical realism; media theory |
| Academic Unit/Department: |
Social Sciences > Sociology |
| Item ID: |
26371 |
| Depositing User: |
Jason Toynbee
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| Date Deposited: |
21 Jan 2011 14:40 |
| Last Modified: |
21 Jan 2011 15:05 |
| URI: |
http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/26371 |
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