Mediated Construction of Reality
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780745681313
Subjects: Mass media, social aspects; Mass media and culture
Description: Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp, revisit the question of how social theory can understand the processes through which an everyday world is constructed in and through media.