[Commlist] new book: Rethinking Media and Communication: A Critical Sociological Lens

Rethinking Media and Communication: A Critical Sociological Lens
https://brill.com/display/title/64825
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 355
Volume Editors: Paško Bilić and Thomas Allmer

In this book, the authors address critical questions about the role of 
media and communication in capitalist societies. How do power structures 
shape communication processes? How are inequalities reinforced across 
different levels of society—micro, mezzo, and macro? Drawing on 
sociology, political economy, media studies and related fields, the book 
offers fresh insights into how communication supports capitalist 
domination, from media commodification to media concentration. It calls 
for a rethinking of how communication affects social relations and how 
social relations influence communication, exposing its deep connection 
to economic and political power. This book is essential for anyone 
seeking to understand the forces shaping today’s media landscape.

Hardback ISBN: 978-90-04-74853-8
E-Book (PDF): 978-90-04-74854-5

TOC

Chapter 1 Introduction
Authors: Paško Bilić and Thomas Allmer

Part 1 Setting the Scene

Chapter 2 Contested Legacies – Marxian Influences on the Sociology of 
Media and Communication
Authors: Sašo Slaček-Brlek and Boris Mance

Part 2 Abstraction and Fetish

Chapter 3 Between Capital and the Lifeworld: Contradictions of 
Value-Regulated Social Interactions
Author: Paško Bilić

Chapter 4 Theorising a Multidimensional Model for Analysing Data 
Fetishism: Reconciling Marxist and Freudian Approaches to the ‘Split’
Authors: Andrea Miconi and Nico Carpentier
Open Access: 
https://brill.com/downloadpdf/display/book/9789004748545/BP000012.pdf

Chapter 5 Actio in distans: a Critical Node of Technological and Social 
Mediation
Author: Marco Briziarelli

Part 3 Dominance and Counter-Dominance

Chapter 6 From the Iron Cage to the Silicon Cage: New Forms of 
Domination within Hypermediated Societies
Authors: Davide Lucantoni, Francesco Orazi, and Federico Sofritti

Chapter 7 Legal Determination of Forms in Software and Communication: 
between Public and Capital
Authors: Toni Prug and Mislav Žitko

Part 4 Public Opinion, Public Sphere and Communicative Activity

Chapter 8 Fast and Shallow: towards a Critical Theory of Opinion
Author: Eric-John Russell

Chapter 9 Activity Theory in the Digital Age: Can Communication and Data 
Be Expropriated, Exploited, or Alienated?
Author: Sebastian Sevignani

Part 5 Non-Western Directions in the Critical Sociology of Media and 
Communication

Chapter 10 Ibn Khaldûn and the Political Economy of Communication in the 
Age of Digital Capitalism
Author: Christian Fuchs

Chapter 11 Ibn Khaldûn Revisited: Responding to Christian Fuchs
Author: Graham Murdock

Chapter 12 Ibn Khaldûn and the Political Economy of Communication: a 
Reply to Graham Murdock
Author: Christian Fuchs

Chapter 13 Re-reading Ibn Khaldûn in Critical Times
Author: Graham Murdock

Chapter 14 Critical Sociological and Media Studies: How Latin America 
Learned to Contest Power from the Periphery
Authors: Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Monica Marchesi

Part 6 Re-focusing the Sociology of Media and Communication Debate

Chapter 15 Dialectics of the Symbolic: Michel Freitag and the Critique 
of Communication
Authors: Claude Leduc and Maxime Ouellet

Chapter 16 Re-examining News Sources in the Sociology of the Media: a 
Political Economy of Communication Approach
Authors: Jernej A. Prodnik and Igor Vobič

Chapter 17 Narrating the Field of Communication: Charting an Unstable 
Territory
Author: Steven Maras

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