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*Listening Beyond the Echoes*

*Media, Ethics, and Agency in an Uncertain World*

*Nick Couldry*



In this book Nick Couldry, media and cultural theorist from the London
School of Economics, asks what are the priorities for media and cultural
research today—at a time of the intensified mediation of all fields of
social life, threats to democratic legitimacy, and serious instability on
the global political stage.

The book calls for a 'decentered' media research that rejects easy
assumptions about media's role in holding societies together and instead
looks more critically at the difference media make on the ground to the
material conditions of our lives. In what detailed ways do media transform
knowledge and agency in daily life? How do media contribute to the culture
of democratic politics (if we still have one)? And, most difficult of all,
how can we live, ethically, with and through media? In what detailed ways do
media transform knowledge and agency in daily life? How do media contribute
to the culture of democratic politics (if we still have one)? And, most
difficult of all, how can we live, ethically, with and through media?

Couldry's previous work is well known for its breadth, ranging across media
sociology, media theory and cultural theory. Here he draws also on political
theory and ethics to develop a tightly-argued account of how media and
cultural research must now *reorientate *itself if it is to remain relevant
and critical, at a time when our chances of living well together, while
acknowledging profound differences of value and worldview, are under new
threat.

*Nick Couldry *teaches Media, Communications, and Culture at the London
School of Economics and Political Science.

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