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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.

ARPIL 2006, 6″ × 9″, 184 pages1-59451-235-3 (hc), $671-59451-236-1 (pb), $26.95, Forthcoming August 2006 BISAC SOC026000

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