Where is sociology in contemporary media studies? How do sociological questions and
arguments shape media analysis? These are the questions addressed in this timely …

George Washington University, USA here are no canonical definitions of “media sociology”
that could capture the vast, boundless universe of media scholarship embedded in …

This contribution is written against the backdrop of the historic dispersal of early American
media sociology out from the core concerns of the discipline and into various importer …

Book Reviews Book Reviews third section illuminates sociological analyses of media
representation, exploring symbolic content regarding power and inequality (Shani Orgad), a …

Hailed as one of the" most significant books of the twentieth century" by Journalism and
Mass Communication Quarterly, Mediating the Message has long been an essential text for …

This article examines the history of media sociology in the US, through a critical analysis of
articles published in the major sociology journals during the twentieth century. I argue that …

Media research has been a thing of fits and starts. 1 As we look back over more than a
century of reflection on media, can we say the subject has now broken into a steady rhythm …

Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences, Fifth Edition, by David Croteau and
William Hoynes provides a framework for understanding the relationship between media …

Since the Second World War, as mass media in the United States have beco more
concentrated in ownership, more centralized in operations, more nat in reach, more …

This book derives from the conviction that we need to enrich the intellectual resources being
brought to bear on the media and that one valuable way to do this would be for media …