Media and Society 2/e

Nicholas Carah is Director of the Centre for Digital Cultures & Societies and Professor in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland. He is also an Associate Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society and leads the UQ node of the Australian Internet Observatory. Nicholas is a UQ Teaching Fellow (2018-2019) and has been awarded the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Award for Teaching Excellence (2019) and The University of Queensland Award for Teaching Excellence (2020). Nicholas research has been published in Media, Culture & Society, Cultural Studies, Social Media & Society, New Media & Society, Television & New Media, Convergence, Consumption, Markets & Culture and Mobile Media & Communication. He is the author of Brand Machines, Sensory Media and Calculative Culture (2016), Media and Society: Production, Content and Participation (2015) and Pop Brands: Branding, Popular Music and Young People (2010). He is the co-editor of Digital Intimate Publics and Social Media (2018) and Conflict in my Outlook (2022).

Introduction Chapter 1: Meaning, Representation and Power Chapter 2: Representation Chapter 3: The Industrial Production of Meaning Chapter 4: Power and Media Production Chapter 5: Global Networks Chapter 6: Platform Media Chapter 7: Social Media, Streaming and Logistics Chapter 8: Participatory and Algorithmic Culture Chapter 9: Making and Managing Audiences Chapter 10: Producing and Negotiating Identities Chapter 11: News and Strategic Communication Chapter 12: Brand Culture Chapter 13: Media and Communication Professionals Chapter 14: Managing Participation

Nicholas Carah has provided a crucial and brilliantly written text for our time: a clear-eyed and comprehensive approach to the operation of media power in the era of digital capitalism. Finally, we have a rich resource that does justice to the profound transformations wrought by the media that permeate our social world. -- Mark Andrejevic

As our lives become ever more entangled with media of all kinds, and as digital media platforms grow in power, it is more important than ever to understand the fundamental role of media forms, technologies, and industries in society at large, as well as in the most intimate settings of everyday life. In this rich and thoughtfully compiled book, Carah has provided both a comprehensive account of traditional media studies approaches and a supremely useful guide to the contemporary digital phenomena that are propelling the field forward. -- Jean Burgess