Media, Culture and Society

Paul Hodkinson is a sociologist whose work is focused upon youth cultures, online communications and on the relationships between media and cultural identities. He has conducted extensive research on goth subculture and is author of Goth. Identity, Style and Subculture (2002, Oxford: Berg). He is also co-editor of Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes (2007, London: Routledge). He is currently researching young people′s use of online communications - notably through social networking sites. He is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. He joined the department of sociology in August 2003. He was previously Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at University College Northampton and prior to that, he studied at the University of Birmingham at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: From Representation to MediatisationPART ONE: ELEMENTS OF MEDIAChapter 2: Media TechnologiesChapter 3: Media IndustriesChapter 4: Media ContentChapter 5: Media UsersPART TWO: MEDIA, POWER AND CONTROLChapter 6: Media as Manipulation? Marxism, Ideology and ExploitationChapter 7: The Construction of NewsChapter 8: Media Purpose and ControlChapter 9: AdvertisingChapter 10: Media, Democracy and the Public SpherePART THREE: MEDIA, IDENTITY AND CULTUREChapter 11: Media, Community and IndividualisationChapter 12: Media, Race and EthnicityChapter 13: Mediated GenderChapter 14: The Mediation of Everything

This excellent book achieves the impressive task of reviewing a century of scholarship while remaining finely attuned to the latest developments – from TikTok to ChatGPT and beyond. A magnificent introduction to media and communication studies that should be a required textbook for anyone engaging with our field.