Klaus Bruhn Jensen

Klassisk og moderne medieteori er den første samlede danske fremstilling af medieteoriens centrale retninger, skoler og paradigmer. Behovet for en dansksproget grundbog om medieteori er blevet udtalt i takt med medie- og kommunikationsvidenskabens vækst i Danmark siden 1980’erne og interessen for mediernes rolle i tilstødende videnskaber. Medier udgør en central del af den moderne tilværelse og det moderne samfundsliv. Det gælder alt fra politik, kultur og religion til arbejde, fritid og forbrug. Bogen søger at udbrede kendskabet til førende teorier om medier og kommunikation. Desuden viser den, hvordan vores medieteoretiske forståelse har ændret sig i takt med forandringer i det medie- og informationsteknologiske landskab. Bogen tilbyder en historisk oversigt over medieteoriens fremkomst og udvikling. Tidsmæssigt griber bogen tilbage til det 20. århundredes begyndelse, hvor de første medieteoretiske betragtninger blev formuleret. Derpå følger en gennemgang af efterkrigstidens mere systematiske udvikling af medieteorien. Bogen slutter med en række teorier, der sætter forståelsesrammer for de ændringer, som de sidste års medieteknologiske udvikling – og i særdeleshed de digitale medier – afstedkommer for relationerne mellem medier, mennesker og samfund. Bogen er opbygget kronologisk og består af tre dele: ”Klassisk medie- og kommunikationsteori”, ”Nyere medieteori” og ”Forandringer af medier og kommunikation”. De enkelte kapitler præsenterer periodens centrale teorier og afsluttes med en oversigt over nøglebegreber.

Media and Society: An Introduction, offers an interdisciplinary approach to media as means of social connection in everyday life and beyond.Integrating theory and concrete analysis in case studies, exercises, and illustrative examples from around the world, Media and Society: An Introduction delivers a go-to reference work for learning about one of the essential social infrastructures of the twenty-first century. Standing on the shoulders of classic communication models, and covering legacies of research about media institutions, media texts, and media users, the chapters include both how-to sections on methods addressing current digital media forms and reflective segments that place TikTok, ChatGPT, and the emerging Internet of Things in the longer history of human communication.As a comprehensive and up-to-date textbook on key conceptual, analytical, and normative issues facing students of media and communication today, this book is a practically applicable resource for teaching and learning about media, in the classroom, in self-study, and in different world regions. As such, it is a key resource for undergraduate students and professors in the fields of media, communication, and cultural studies.

Media and Society: An Introduction, offers an interdisciplinary approach to media as means of social connection in everyday life and beyond.Integrating theory and concrete analysis in case studies, exercises, and illustrative examples from around the world, Media and Society: An Introduction delivers a go-to reference work for learning about one of the essential social infrastructures of the twenty-first century. Standing on the shoulders of classic communication models, and covering legacies of research about media institutions, media texts, and media users, the chapters include both how-to sections on methods addressing current digital media forms and reflective segments that place TikTok, ChatGPT, and the emerging Internet of Things in the longer history of human communication.As a comprehensive and up-to-date textbook on key conceptual, analytical, and normative issues facing students of media and communication today, this book is a practically applicable resource for teaching and learning about media, in the classroom, in self-study, and in different world regions. As such, it is a key resource for undergraduate students and professors in the fields of media, communication, and cultural studies.

This second edition furthers conversations about the ongoing society-wide and worldwide digitalization of human communication.Reviewing the long lines in the history of media and communication – from writing via printing and broadcasting to computing – the book lays out three general types of media: the human body enabling face-to-face communication here and now; the technically reproduced means of mass communication across space and time; and the digital technologies integrating one-to-one, one-to-many, as well as many-to-many interactions. All these communicative practices coexist in contemporary media environments. Across cultures, genders, and age groups, people go on communicating in the flesh, via wires, and over the air, as illustrated though case studies of mobile communication on mundane matters, and of climate change as a global challenge for human communication and coexistence.The second edition includes:Updated accounts of research and public debate on digital media and communicationAnalyses of current social media and an emerging internet of thingsSystematic presentations of digital as well as traditional empirical methodsDiscussion of the normative implications of digitalization, including the classic rights of information and communication, and a right not to be communicated about through surveillanceInterdisciplinary in scope to showcase the wide-reaching cultural consequences of media convergence, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of media, communication, and cultural studies.

This second edition furthers conversations about the ongoing society-wide and worldwide digitalization of human communication.Reviewing the long lines in the history of media and communication – from writing via printing and broadcasting to computing – the book lays out three general types of media: the human body enabling face-to-face communication here and now; the technically reproduced means of mass communication across space and time; and the digital technologies integrating one-to-one, one-to-many, as well as many-to-many interactions. All these communicative practices coexist in contemporary media environments. Across cultures, genders, and age groups, people go on communicating in the flesh, via wires, and over the air, as illustrated though case studies of mobile communication on mundane matters, and of climate change as a global challenge for human communication and coexistence.The second edition includes:Updated accounts of research and public debate on digital media and communicationAnalyses of current social media and an emerging internet of thingsSystematic presentations of digital as well as traditional empirical methodsDiscussion of the normative implications of digitalization, including the classic rights of information and communication, and a right not to be communicated about through surveillanceInterdisciplinary in scope to showcase the wide-reaching cultural consequences of media convergence, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of media, communication, and cultural studies.

This book outlines a theory of communication and justice for the digital age, updating classic positions in political philosophy and ethics, and engaging thinkers from Aristotle through Immanuel Kant and the American pragmatists to John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, and Amartya Sen.In communication seeking to define justice and call out injustice, there is such a thing as the last word. The chapters in this book trace the historical emergence of communication as a human right; specify the technological resources and institutional frameworks necessary for exercising that right; and address some of the challenges following from digitalization that currently confront citizens, national regulators, and international agencies. Among the issues covered are public access to information archives past and present; local and global networks of communication as sources of personal identities and imagined communities; the ongoing reconfiguration of the press as a fourth branch of governance; and privacy as a precondition for individuals and collectives to live their lives according to plans, and to make their own histories.The book will be of interest to students and researchers in media and communication studies, cultural studies, political philosophy and ethics, and interdisciplinary fields examining the ethical and political implications of new information and communication infrastructures.

This book outlines a theory of communication and justice for the digital age, updating classic positions in political philosophy and ethics, and engaging thinkers from Aristotle through Immanuel Kant and the American pragmatists to John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, and Amartya Sen.In communication seeking to define justice and call out injustice, there is such a thing as the last word. The chapters in this book trace the historical emergence of communication as a human right; specify the technological resources and institutional frameworks necessary for exercising that right; and address some of the challenges following from digitalization that currently confront citizens, national regulators, and international agencies. Among the issues covered are public access to information archives past and present; local and global networks of communication as sources of personal identities and imagined communities; the ongoing reconfiguration of the press as a fourth branch of governance; and privacy as a precondition for individuals and collectives to live their lives according to plans, and to make their own histories.The book will be of interest to students and researchers in media and communication studies, cultural studies, political philosophy and ethics, and interdisciplinary fields examining the ethical and political implications of new information and communication infrastructures.

Fra begyndelsen af 1990erne skete der dybtgående og langsigtede forandringer af mediernes placering i det danske samfund. Internettet e-mail, web, sociale medier og i stigende grad mobile tjenester blev en fast bestanddel af hverdagen, erhvervslivet og den offentlige forvaltning. Imens fik de gamle medier travlt med at finde deres plads i et digitaliseret og integreret mediemiljø.Konkurrencen mellem public service og kommercielle radio- og tv-stationer blev videreført online, ligesom dagbladene markedsførte sig gennem netudgaver. Også bogen overlevede, til dels via netsalg og som e-bog, mens ugeblade og magasiner kunne tilbyde flere forskellige slags oplevelser på glittet papir og alle slags skærme. Dansk film fejrede særlige triumfer, ikke blot på verdens festivaler, men også i danske biografer og danske hjem på dvd og gennem streaming. Reklamen var nu mindre et politisk stridspunkt end et kulturelt vilkår på tværs af platforme. Alligevel stod spørgsmålet tilbage, hvordan indhold på dansk og om Danmark kunne finansieres og formidles i fremtiden.Igennem hele perioden var internettet det mest konkrete udtryk for den globalisering økonomisk såvel som kulturelt der med fornyet styrke satte dagsordenen for de danske mediers udvikling. Dansk mediehistorie 1-4 Dansk mediehistorie fortæller historien om mediernes udvikling i Danmark og giver den første samlede vurdering af deres betydning for dansk kultur.De fire bind tager udgangspunkt i massemedierne - presse, tidsskrifter, bøger, film, radio, tv, internet - men beskriver også, hvordan massemedierne har spillet sammen med både den dagligdags samtale og de etablerede kunstformer. I medierne mødes det fine med det folkelige og det fremmede med det hjemlige.Bind 1: Mediernes forhistorie og 1840-1880Bind 2: 1880-1920 og 1920-1960Bind 3: 1960-1995Bind 4: 1995-2015