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In cultural studies, media culture refers to the current Western capitalist society that emerged and developed during the 20th century under the influence of mass media. [1] [2] [3] The term highlights the extensive impact and intellectual influence of the media, primarily television, but also the press, radio, and cinema, on public opinion, tastes, and values.
Media, Culture & Society is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers media studies.The editors-in-chief are Raymond Boyle, (University of Glasgow), John Corner (University of Leeds), Anna Reading (King's College London), Paddy Scannell (University of Michigan), Philip Schlesinger (University of Glasgow), and Colin Sparks (Hong Kong Baptist University).
Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter is a non-fiction book written by Steven Johnson.Published in 2005, it details Johnson's theory that popular culture – in particular television programs and video games – has grown more complex and demanding over time and is making society as a whole more intelligent, contrary to the perception that ...
The book says that an identity politics based culture war has become the focus of media "catering almost exclusively to the interests of urban, upper-class liberals". [2] Washington Independent Review of Books called it "the most penetrating analysis" of the state of mainstream media .
Museums and Digital Culture (2019) is an interdisciplinary book about developments in digital culture with respect to museums. [1] [2] It is edited by Tula Giannini and Jonathan P. Bowen, who are also the authors of 12 chapters. The book is part of the Springer Series on Cultural Computing, edited by Ernest Edmonds.
Michael O'Hare in his review for the Journal of Cultural Economics noted that that while the book has a few minor flaws (for example, the ebook version reviewed was a poorly formatted PDF with no hyperlinks), the work is an "extremely thoughtful and well-informed" analysis of modern state of culture and the law. For the "most distinctive ...
In media studies, mass communication, media psychology, communication theory, and sociology, media influence and the media effect are topics relating to mass media and media culture's effects on individuals' or audiences' thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors. Through written, televised, or spoken channels, mass media reach large audiences.
The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture is a 2007 book written by entrepreneur and Internet critic Andrew Keen.Published by Currency, Keen's first book is a critique of the enthusiasm surrounding user-generated content, peer production, and other Web 2.0–related phenomena.