Media/Theory: Thinking About Media & Communications (Paperback - 2005)

A grasp of an enormous body of work is displayed adroitly ... overall the book is a genuine contribution to the literature. It should help to shape the future of critical reflections on media institutions and practices. David Chaney, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Durham This is an accomplished and elegant set of discussions, where an unusually broad range of theory from the humanities and social sciences, much of it to do with media but much of it not, is examined and organized.
Graeme Turner, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Queensland.
Media/Theory is an accessible yet challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life.
Shaun Moores connects the analysis of media and communications with key themes in contemporary social theory:
• Time
• Space
• Relationships
• Meanings
• Experiences
He insists that media studies are not simply about studying media. Rather, they require an understanding of how technologically mediated communication is bound up with wider processes in the modern world, from the reproduction of social life on an everyday basis to the reorganisation of social relations on a global scale. Drawing on ideas from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, Media/Theory makes a distinctive contribution towards rethinking the shape and direction of media studies today.

Shaun Moores is Associate Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. His previous books include Interpreting Audiences (1993) and Media and Everyday Life in Modern Society (2000).