New book: Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change
A new book entitled “Critical Perspectives on Media, Power and Change” has been published. The book is edited by Ilija Tomanić Trivundža, Hannu Nieminen, Nico Carpentier, and Josef Trappel.
(Image removed) This book explores current debates about media, power and change from a wide variety of critical approaches and traditions. Sharing a common set of concerns which are mobilised to defend core societal values – including social justice, equality, fairness, care for the other and humanity – authors raise questions about how the omnipresent media can contribute to the materialisation of these core values, and how it can sometimes work against them. Addressing issues such as rethinking social change, mediatisation and regulation, the authors demonstrate how the role of the critical media and communication scholar merits and requires (self-)reflection. Critical voices matter, but they also face structural limitations.
This book was originally published as two special issues of Javnost: The Public.
Nico Carpentier is professor in media and communication studies at the Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University.