[Commlist] new book: Contributions to Communicational, Cultural, Media, and Digital Studies: Contemporary World-Society

please announce the publication of the book entitled “Contributions to 
Communicational, Cultural, Media, and Digital Studies: Contemporary 
World-Society” on your communication list.

New book: “Contributions to Communicational, Cultural, Media, and 
Digital Studies: Contemporary World-Society”, by Paulo M. Barroso 
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

Synopsis:

This book is about communication, a universal, yet particular, form of 
linking people and ideas. It details the growing and multiform uses, 
functions, interactions, and effects of communication in the 
contemporary “world-society”, and highlights the dialectic between 
society and communication. It will also serve to stimulate critical 
thinking. The book is structured as a compendium of the sociology of 
communication, providing a practical and pedagogical-didactic resource 
especially for students, including case studies, summary-tables, 
questions for review, and excerpts from selected works and authors. This 
book is a major contribution to cultural, media, and digital studies, 
and will be of interest to those who live in an increasingly digital, 
technological, and global society, and want to understand a phenomenon 
as social as it is inevitable, spontaneous, and influential.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter One: From Sociology to Sociology of Communication

1.1. Precursors of Sociology as a science of the social

1.1.1. Herodotus

1.1.2. Plato

1.1.3. Aristotle

1.1.4. Saint Augustine

1.1.5. Saint Thomas Aquinas

1.1.6. Ibn Kaldun

1.1.7. Machiavelli

1.1.8. Thomas More

1.1.9. Thomas Hobbes

1.1.10. John Locke

1.1.11. Montesquieu

1.1.12. Rousseau

1.2. The founders of Sociology

1.2.1. Comte: the scientific approach for a positive Sociology

1.2.2. Marx: the material and practical approach for the study of societies

1.2.3. Durkheim: Sociology as a study of social cohesion

1.2.4. Weber: comprehensive Sociology

1.3. Branches of Sociology: the Sociology of Communication

1.4. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Two: Communication

2.1. Origin and evolution of human communication

2.2. Anthropology of communication

2.3. Pragmatics of human communication

2.4. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Three: Mass society, culture, and communication

3.1. The concept of “mass”

3.2. Society and mass societies

3.3. Culture

3.3.1. Culture and symbols

3.3.2. Values and norms of culture

3.3.3. Popular culture and mass culture

3.4. Mass communication

3.4.1. Functions of mass communication

3.4.2. Three social functions of the media for Lazarsfeld and Merton

3.4.3. Characteristics of contemporary mass discourses

3.4.4. Media imperialism

3.5. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Four: McLuhan: the effects of media and technical prostheses

4.1. The three cultures or galaxies of evolution

4.2. The global village

4.3. The medium is the message

4.4. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Five: McQuail: the role and effects of the media in societies

5.1. Media as an institution of society

5.2. The rising of the mass media

5.3. Theories about the role of the media in society

5.3.1. Mass society theory of media

5.3.2. Marxism and Critical political-economic theory

5.3.3. Functionalist theory of media

5.3.4. Critical political-economic theory

5.3.5. Social constructionism theory: media, diffusion, and development

5.3.6. Media technological determinism

5.3.7. Information society theory

5.4. Effects of mass communication

5.4.1. Immediate and massive influence (1930-1945)

5.4.2. Limited effects (1945-1960)

5.4.3. Complex effects (from 1965)

5.5. Public opinion and the public sphere

5.5.1. Mechanisms for making public opinion

5.5.2. Benjamin Constant: the liberty of ancients vs. moderns

5.5.3. The Spiral of Silence Theory

5.6. Techniques of communication and influence

5.7. Communication approaches and studies

5.7.1. The Mass Communication Research: audience study

5.7.2. The Frankfurt School: mass society criticism

5.7.3. Cultural Studies

5.8. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Six: Luhmann: the society as a communication system

6.1. The improbability of communication

6.2. Action, communication, and social systems

6.3. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Seven: Habermas: the universal pragmatics

7.1. Public sphere: the public and the private

7.2. Communicative action vs. strategic action

7.3. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Eight: Giddens: the globalization of the world

8.1. Conceptualizing globalization

8.2. Globalization and communication

8.3. Risks of globalization

8.4. Globalization vs. tradition

8.5. Media and ideology

8.6. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Nine: Sartori: the society of the visible

9.1. From the homo sapiens to the homo videns

9.2. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Ten: Victoria Camps: the information society

10.1. Mediacracy

10.2. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Eleven: Ramonet: the tyranny of communication

11.1. From the public interest to the interest of the public

11.2. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Twelve: Modernity, post-modernity, and media

12.1. Nietzsche and the modernity/post-modernity transition

12.2. Heidegger: the question concerning technology and modernity

12.3. Baudrillard: the end of the social

12.3.1. Images, simulations, and hyperreality

12.3.2. Instant communication

12.4. Debord: the society of the spectacle and image cult

12.5. Foucault: societies of the surveillance and control

12.6. Charles Taylor: the ethics of authenticity

12.7. Lyotard: the human condition and the post-modern

12.8. Lipovetsky: from post-modernity to hyper-modernity

12.8.1. The era of emptiness and hyper-modernity

12.8.2. The post-duty age

12.8.3. World-culture: the triumph of capitalism and individualism

12.8.4. Global screen

12.8.5. Paradoxical societies

12.9. Vattimo: the media, the transparent society, and the end of modernity

12.10. Zygmunt Bauman: the liquid modernity

12.11. Byung-Chul Han: the digital mediatization

12.12. Questions for review and reflection

Chapter Thirteen: Hyperreality: when the virtual is real

13.1. Contemporaneity and de-realization

13.2. What is hyperreality?

13.3. The virtual and the problem of what is not true

13.4. Cyber-culture: virtual reality and augmented reality

13.5. Questions for review and reflection

Conclusions

Bibliography

Paulo M. Barroso (author) is a Professor at the College of Education of 
the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal, where he teaches 
Semiotics, Sociology of Communication, Theories of Communication, and 
Media Ethics and Deontology. He is also an Integrated Researcher at the 
Investigation Center in Communication, Information and Digital Culture 
in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University 
of Lisbon. He received a PhD in Philosophy from the University of 
Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in 2007, and worked as a Postdoctoral 
Researcher in Communication Sciences at the University of Minho, 
Portugal. He is the author of more than 20 articles and six books, 
including. /Grammar, Expressiveness, and Inter-subjective Meanings: 
Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology/ (2015).


*Contact (email) address:*(pbarroso1062 /at/ gmail.com) 
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