Making Media Studies by David Gauntlett

Making Media Studies by David Gauntlett

In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making - not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media.

«Sitting down with David Gauntlett’s ‘Making Media Studies’ is like having a conversation with an erudite, yet still optimistic scholarGauntlett celebrates ‘everyday makers’ on digital platforms such as YouTube, giving readers the pragmatic and conceptual tools needed to understand the positive aspects of this ongoing cultural shift. The result is a deeply engaging antidote to more pessimistic stirrings.» (Matt Ratto, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto)
«What Gauntlett offers is a bold, imaginative – and occasionally provocative – view of what media studies might become. This is a lively contribution to thinking about media and communications.» (Shaun Moores, Professor, University of Sunderland)
«Sitting down with David Gauntlett’s ‘Making Media Studies’ is like having a conversation with an erudite, yet still optimistic scholar. Gauntlett celebrates ‘everyday makers’ on digital platforms such as YouTube, giving readers the pragmatic and conceptual tools needed to understand the positive aspects of this ongoing cultural shift. The result is a deeply engaging
antidote to more pessimistic stirrings.» (Matt Ratto, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto)
«What Gauntlett offers is a bold, imaginative – and occasionally provocative – view of what media studies might become. This is a lively contribution to thinking about media and communications.» (Shaun Moores, Professor, University of Sunderland)

David Gauntlett is a Professor in the Faculty of Media, Arts and Design and Co-Director of the Communications and Media Research Institute at the University of Westminster, United Kingdom. See davidgauntlett.com for further information, blog, and videos.

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ISBN 13	9781433123344
ISBN 10	1433123347
Title	Making Media Studies
Author	David Gauntlett
Series	Digital Formations
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Year published	2015-02-27
Number of pages	171
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