Mediated society: a critical sociology of media

Detailed Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

PART 1: SOCIOLOGY, COMMUNICATION, AND CITIZENSHIP

Sources for a Critical Sociology of Mediated Society

Introduction

Critical Sociology: Exposing the Gap Between Real and Imaginary Audiences

Media Centred Approaches

Decentred Approaches

Undoing Gender Norms

Summary

Enhanced Learning Activities

Annotated Further Reading

Useful Media

The Public Sphere

Introduction

Public Spaces

Media and Public Spaces

The State and the Commercial Imperative

Summary

Enhanced Learning Activities

Annotated Further Reading

Notes

Citizenship and Audiences

Introduction

Mediated Society as a Social System

Audiences: Real or Imagined?

Audiences through the lens of Social Research

The Media System And Responsibility

Summary

Enhanced Learning Activities

Annotated Further Reading

Useful Media

Notes

Consumption and Advertising

Introduction

Consumption: The Paradoxical Phenomenon

The Marxist Perspective on Production and Consumption

Georg Simmel on Fashion and Urban Life

Leisure Class, Gender, and Conspicuous Consumption

Classical Sociology of Consumption: The Limitation

Cultural Capital and Social Class

Feminist Critiques: Gender, Political Economy, and Consumption

Advertising as Mass Communication

Michel de Certeau on Agency, Interpretation, and Advertising

Summary

Enhanced Learning Activities

Annotated Further Reading

Useful Media

Notes

New Media, New World?

Introduction

New Media: A Contemporary Phenomenon

New Media: A Historical Phenomenon

The Sociological Imagination of New Media

TV: A Continued Debate

New Media and Political Violence

Summary

Enhanced Learning Activities

Annotated Further Reading

Useful Media

Notes

PART 2: MEDIA EVENTS AND THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION

Global Media Events

Introduction

What Is Globalization?

Framing the News

Global Media Events as Spectacles

Mediating Citizenship through Global Media Events

Missing Global Media Events

Dehumanization and Effacement

Missing News from the Global South

Summary

Enhanced Learning Activities

Annotated Further Reading

Useful Media

National Media Events

Introduction

Multinational Canada and Public Broadcasting

A Double-Faced Janus: National Media, Social Order, and Disorder

English Canada: A Mediated Absent Nation

Multicultural Framing: Common Memories and National Histories

Summary

Enhanced Learning Activities

Annotated Further Reading

Useful Media

Urban Media Events

Introduction

Seriocomedy, Newspapers, and the Well-Ordered City

National Public Broadcasting the Cultures of Urban Laughter

Toronto and the Absent Nation

Amalgamation Debates: Normal Disorder of the City?

Montreal and the Absent Region

Cross-over Voices

Summary

Enhanced Learning Activities

Annotated Further Reading

Useful Media

Notes

PART 3: SOCIAL PROBLEMS THROUGH JOURNALISM AND MEDIA

Reporting on Social Problems

Introduction

What Makes a Problem Social?

Reporting on Social Problems

Social Problems Imagined through Entertainment

Summary

Enhanced Learning Activities

Annotated Further Reading

Useful Media

Notes

Reporting on Poverty in Montreal

Introduction

Les Bougons: Seriocomedy and Poverty

Studying Newspapers: Frame Analysis and Keyword Search

Direct Talk in the Press: 'The Poorest of the Poor'

'Our TV Poor' are at Peace

Journalistic Polemics on Politicians, Developers, and the State

Seriocomedy as Anarchy: Against the Common Good

Indirect Talk: Journalistic Accounts of Poor Reporting on Poor

Summary

Enhanced Learning Activities

Annotated Further Reading

Useful Media

Notes

Reporting Immigration in New York City

Introduction

On US Immigration and New York City

What Is Conditional Hospitality?

Just, Unjust, and Extreme

Multicultural Practices and Changing Faces

Governance: Official Discourse and Political Shocks

Social Movements: The Astonishment of Social Solidarity

How Can Public Journalism Reduce the Gap?

Summary

Enhanced Learning Activities

Annotated Further Reading

Useful Media

Glossary

References

Index

PART 1: SOCIOLOGY, COMMUNICATION, AND CITIZENSHIP

1. Sources for a Critical Sociology of Mediated Society

2. The Public Sphere

3. Citizenship and Audiences

4. Consumption and Advertising

5. New Media, New World?

6. Global Media Events

7. National Media Events

8. Urban Media Events

9. reporting on Social Problems

10. Reporting on Poverty in Montreal

11. Reporting Immigration in New York City