{"product_id":"mediarchy-hardback-9781509533381","title":"Mediarchy (Hardback) 9781509533381","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMediarchy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eYves Citton (Author), Andrew Brown (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509533381, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 September 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e308 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.658 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eMediarchy\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnificent work of synthesis that brings together many different approaches to media. Citton boldly puts the analysis of media at the centre of social thought and shows just how many of the things we observe about our times fall into place through this perspective.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMcKenzie Wark, New School for Social Research \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Grounded and creative, this book proposes a timely synthesis of recent media theory. Citton questions the “transcontinental divide” that has informed Media Studies from its onset and in the process manages to breathe new life into some of the most fundamental questions facing media critics today. \u003ci\u003eMediarchy\u003c\/i\u003e is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the complex, multitiered operationality of media in our modern world.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Hansen, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"a rich and thought-provoking book\"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. Our political regimes are based less on nations or citizens than on audiences shaped by the media. We assume that our social and political destinies are shaped by the will of the people without realizing that ‘the people’ are always produced, both as individuals and as aggregates, by the media: we are all embedded in mediated publics, ‘intra-structured’ by the apparatuses of communication that govern our interactions. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this major book, Yves Citton maps out the new regime of experience, media and power that he designates by the term ‘mediarchy’.  To understand mediarchy, we need to look both at the effects that the media have on us and also at the new forms of being and experience that they induce in us.  We can never entirely escape from the effects of the mediarchies that operate through us but by becoming more aware of their conditioning, we can develop the new forms of political analysis and practice which are essential if we are to rise to the unprecedented challenges of our time. \u003cbr\u003e       \u003cbr\u003e This comprehensive and far-reaching book will be essential reading for students and scholars in media and communications, politics and sociology, and it will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the multiple and complex ways that the media – from newspapers and TV to social media and the internet – shape our social, political and personal lives today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Prelude: Democracy or mediarchy? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART ONE: MEDIA \u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Naming mediarchy\u003cbr\u003e Interlude One: Heterarchy  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: Approaching mediarchy\u003cbr\u003e Interlude Two: Informational pharmacology   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: Unfolding mediarchy    \u003cbr\u003e Interlude Three: Affective meteorologies    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: Equipping mediarchy     \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART TWO: MASS MEDIA  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: Massifying mediarchy    \u003cbr\u003e Interlude: Populisms  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six: Systematizing mediarchy\u003cbr\u003e Interlude Five: Media powers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Seven: Decolonizing mediarchy \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART THREE: MEDIUM    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Eight: Archaeologizing mediarchy\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: Accelerationisms \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Nine: Stratifying mediarchy   \u003cbr\u003e The politics of low frequencies\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Ten: Magnetizing mediarchy\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: Formative milieus     \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Eleven: Zombifying mediarchy\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR: META-MEDIA\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Twelve: Digitizing mediarchy\u003cbr\u003e Interlude: Data commons    \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Thirteen: Inhabiting mediarchy \u003cbr\u003e Interlude: Mediarchic metamorphoses   \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Fourteen: Surprising mediarchy\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Postlude: Medianarchism?   \u003cbr\u003e List of illustrations \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441794904344,"sku":"9781509533381","price":45.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509533381.jpg?v=1785025839","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/mediarchy-hardback-9781509533381","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}