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[ecrea] New book: 'Making Media Studies' by David Gauntlett

Fri Jun 12 09:32:09 GMT 2015




MAKING MEDIA STUDIES: The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies.
Published by Peter Lang, 2015.

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Blurb:

In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making – not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media.

Gauntlett suggests that media studies scholars have failed to recognise the significance of everyday creativity – the vital drive of people to make, exchange, and learn together, supported by online networks. He argues that we should think about media in terms of conversations, inspirations, and making things happen.

Media studies can be about genuine social change, if we recognise the significance of everyday creativity, work to transform our tools, and learn to use them wisely.

Making Media Studies is a lively, readable and heartfelt manifesto from the author of the acclaimed Making is Connecting.

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A two-minute video about it is here:
http://davidgauntlett.com/making-media-studies/making-media-studies-2-minute-intro-video/

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Reviews:

"Sitting down with David Gauntlett's Making Media Studies is like having a conversation with an erudite, yet still optimistic scholar. Gauntlett celebrates 'everyday makers' on digital platforms such as YouTube, giving readers the pragmatic and conceptual tools needed to understand the positive aspects of this ongoing cultural shift. The result is a deeply engaging antidote to more pessimistic stirrings." - Matt Ratto, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

"What Gauntlett offers is a bold, imaginative - and occasionally provocative - view of what media studies might become. This is a lively contribution to thinking about media and communications."
- Shaun Moores, Professor, University of Sunderland

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David Gauntlett – http://www.davidgauntlett.com
Professor and Co-Director of the Communications and Media Research Institute,
Faculty of Media, Arts and Design,
University of Westminster
(d.gauntlett /at/ westminster.ac.uk)
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