The Cultural Industries
Exploring digitalization's impact on cultural production and consumption
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Sage Publications Ltd
Published:28th Dec '18
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This book offers a critical analysis of cultural production and consumption, focusing on the impact of digitalization and major tech companies in the industry.
In The Cultural Industries, David Hesmondhalgh presents a comprehensive examination of cultural production and consumption within the global media landscape. This updated edition delves into the significant impact of digitalization on culture, offering insights into how technology companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook shape the cultural industries. Through a blend of research, theory, and critical analysis, Hesmondhalgh makes complex concepts accessible to readers, ensuring that both scholars and students can engage with the material effectively.
The book addresses a variety of pressing issues, including the influence of digital technologies on traditional industries like music, television, newspapers, books, and digital games. Hesmondhalgh also scrutinizes the implications of digitalization, discussing key themes such as participation, power dynamics, commercialism, surveillance, and labor in the context of cultural production. By exploring these themes, The Cultural Industries offers a nuanced understanding of how culture is produced and consumed in the digital age.
As one of the most influential texts in media studies, the fourth edition of The Cultural Industries serves as an essential resource for students and researchers alike. Its thorough analysis and critical perspective make it a cornerstone for anyone studying media, communication, the cultural and creative industries, and the sociology of media. This edition not only reinforces its status as a classic but also ensures its relevance in contemporary discussions about culture and technology.
Hesmondhalgh has done all students of media and communication a great service by updating this book, which offers a necessary and comprehensive map of the world of cultural industries. It is an indispensable resource for researchers and students across the world. -- José van Dijck
Hesmondhalgh has done the impossible - a phenomenal new edition that grapples with some of the biggest issues, major transformations and important continuities in the cultural industries to date. From political economics of neoliberalism to organisational business strategies; from sociocultural change through to technological impact this book digs deep into the relationship between power, culture and production and shows us yet again why culture and the cultural industries really do matter. It′s a tour de force written with style and packed with substance - a book that every media studies student and scholar should read at least once!
-- Natalie Fenton
The Cultural Industries is one of those rare books that is accessible to students and essential for scholars. Hesmondhalgh integrates an analysis of both the changes and continuities within cultural industries in a way that is far too rare in scholarship in this field. -- Philip M Napoli
A masterful text that lays out the intellectual foundation for the contemporary study and understanding of cultural industries. Thoroughly updated, this edition maintains its original framework and reflects the expanding boundaries of its subject matter to consider both new digital industries and the extension of existing media industries into internet distribution. -- Amanda D Lotz
The publication of the 4th edition of The Cultural Industries reminds us just how important this book has been over the last decade and a half. In a period of great turbulence and far reaching transformations, we have had an almost ′real-time′ charting of these industries across a vast literature, from frothily optimistic to dour doom-mongering. This edition brings us up to date, with important additions on ′digital′ disruption and on the rise of China. As always, Hesmondhalgh shows us the long term continuities in the industries and, more importantly, what is at stake in the production and circulation of the meanings by which we make sense of the world. -- Justin O′Connor
ISBN: 9781526424099
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 1160g
568 pages
4th Revised edition