ABSTRACT
I intend this book to be used by students who are taking media courses at advanced undergraduate and taught postgraduate levels, either in the field of media studies or else in other areas of the humanities and social sciences. My main aim in writing it has been to provide an accessible yet challenging guide to some ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life. From the start, though, I ought to declare that this is not straightforwardly a book about ‘media theory’, at least not in the conventional sense in which that term has come to be understood today. Rather, my title, Media/Theory, should be taken to indicate a commitment to connecting the analysis of media and communications with selected themes in contemporary social (and, to an extent, cultural) theory. These are themes of time and space, relationships, meanings and experiences.
