Listening Beyond the Echoes
Subtitle: Media, Ethics, and Agency in an Uncertain World(Cultural Politics & the Promise of Democracy Series) (Cultural Politics and the Promise of Democracy)
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: April 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781594512353
Subjects: Cultural studies; Media Studies; Practical & applied ethics; Sociology - General; Moral and ethical aspects; Social Science; Sociology; Sociology - Social Theory; Social Science / Media Studies; Mass media; Mass media and culture
First sentence: In these words, Dorothy Smith, the Canadian feminist sociologist (1987: 8-9), expressed as well as anyone the point of a critical sociology: to look back at, to talk back to, structures of power that are deeply embedded in the contexts and forms of our daily life.