Media and Society

Klaus Bruhn Jensen is Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research and teaching emphasize communication theory, empirical research methodologies, and the history of media and communication. Recent publications include A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies (Routledge, 3rd edition, 2021), A Theory of Communication of Justice (Routledge, 2021), and Comparing Communication Systems: The Internets of China, Europe, and the United States (Routledge, 2023, coedited with Rasmus Helles).Signe Sophus Lai is a tenure-track assistant professor at the Center for Tracking and Society, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research and teaching are situated at the intersection between infrastructure studies, political economy of communication, and critical data studies, and are particularly focused on advancing new methods for empirical research on digital communication systems and infrastructural power. Recent publications include the monograph Gateways: Comparing Digital Communication Systems in Nordic Welfare States (2023, coauthored with Sofie Flensburg) as well as articles in New Media & Society, Mobile Media & Communication, Big Data & Society, and Feminist Media Studies.

• 1. Media, communication, and society 2. Texts in the media 3. Society in the media 4. Media as institutions 5. Media users 6. Methods about media 7. Media in society

“This book offers a highly accessible yet incisively synthetic introduction to media and communication research. Including and also going beyond a comprehensive review of the field, it invites the reader to engage with a fascinating range of influential arguments, carefully contextualised historically, about the importance of media and communication in society.”- Sonia Livingstone, Professor, Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science“Another day, another social media app, another viral deepfake… As we struggle to comprehend our tumultuous media landscape, this book anchors our understanding of human communication in the face of digital acceleration. The authors offer a longue duree perspective coupled with robust analytical frameworks that are valuable indeed.” - Sun Sun Lim, Professor of Communication & Technology, Singapore Management University