Introduction: Re-Inventing the Media
Part I: Rethinking the Media
1. Rethinking Media Theory
2. Entertainment, information, and the ‘culture of search’
Part II: The Media and the Nation-State
3. The Media, the Nation, and Globalization
4. Rethinking Media Regulation
Part III: The Consequences of Celebrity
5. The Celebrification of the Media
6. Intervening in the Social: the function of celebrity culture
Conclusion: Teaching the Re-invented Media
Biography
Graeme Turner is Professor of Cultural Studies in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. Among the leading figures within media and cultural studies, his most recent books include Locating Television: Zones of Consumption (2013) (with Anna Cristina Pertierra), and Television Histories in Asia (2015) (co-edited with Jinna Tay).
"What is the media?" and "What is media studies?": two huge, challenging questions that require the likes of Graeme Turner to answer properly. And he delivers the goods with thoughtful and insightfully sweeping commentary on precisely what’s new and different, what’s not. This is a book we should all be reading.
Jonathan Gray, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison
At last, an introduction to media studies that doesn't treat the digital era as an after-thought or something entirely separate from what came before. Turner begins the necessary task of re-centering media studies as it is and will be, rather than as it was.
Amanda Lotz, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Michigan
Graeme Turner is among the leading theorists and analysts of media culture today, yesterday—and probably tomorrow, as well. Re-Inventing the Media offers a judicious yet lively, scholarly yet readable, timely, and sage view of what is happening in our complex world of old, middle-aged, and new media. Bravo!
Toby Miller, Profesor Invitado, Universidad del Norte
"Recommended"
S. Pepper, Northeastern Illinois University in CHOICE
