Media Edge

This book challenges social science to address the most important social change since the industrial revolution: the mediated communication order. From the internet to the NSA, he shows how media logic has transformed audiences into personal networks guided by social media.

Autorentext

David Altheide, PhD, is Emeritus Regents' Professor on the faculty of Justice and Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.

Inhalt

Contents: Media Logic, Social Power, and Fear - Symbolic Interaction Illuminates the Mediated World - Media Dramas and the Social Construction of Reality - Terrorism and Fear Post 9/11 - Terrorism and the National Security University - Risk Communication and the Discourse of Fear - Shielding Risk - Our Mediated Condition.