This volume, published 20 years after The Place of Media Power, brings together a rich collection of essays from Nick Couldry's earliest to his latest writings, some of them hard to access, plus two previously unpublished chapters.
Preface: Analysis without Sorting Hats - Jonathan Gray
Part One SPEAKING UP AND SPEAKING OUT
Speaking Up in a Public Space: The Strange Case of Rachel Whiteread's House
Local Magics, Global Discretion
Speaking about Others and Speaking Personally: Reflections after Elspeth Probyn's Sexing the Self
The Individual "Point of View": Learning from Bourdieu's The Weight of the World
Part Two SPACES OF MEDIA, SPACES OF EXCLUSION
Remembering Diana: The Geography of Celebrity and the Politics of Lack
Passing Ethnographies: Rethinking the Sites of Agency and Reflexivity in a Mediated World
The Umbrella Man: Crossing a Landscape of Speech and Silence
On the Set of the Sopranos: "Inside" a Fan's construction of Nearness
Teaching Us to Fake It: The Ritualised Norms of Television's "Reality" Games
Class and Contemporary Forms of "Reality" Production Or, Hidden Injuries of Class 2
Part Three: DEMOCRACY'S UNCERTAIN FUTURES
Form and Power in an Age of Continuous Spectacle
Living Well with and through Media
What and Where is the Transnationalized Public Sphere?
A Necessary Disenchantment: Myth, Agency and Injustice in the Digital Age
Media in Modernity: A Nice Derangement of Institutions
Afterword: Refracting Power in an Age of Big Data - Nick Couldry