Book description
Inspired by Walter Benjamin's classical Arcades Project, Consuming
Media is a pioneering exploration of the interface between
communication, shopping and everyday life. Based on a six-year study by
over a dozen scholars on a specific site, it analyses the links between
power, media and consumption in contemporary urban culture. Illustrated
with rich ethnographic detail, Consuming Media scrutinises four main
media circuits - print media, media images, sound and motion, and
hardware machines - to assess how media texts and technologies are
selected, purchased and used. Exploring the relations between different
media, the nature of cultural citizenship and the power relations of
public space, Consuming Media presents an ethnography of globalisation
and develops a new approach to understanding media consumption.
Inspired by Walter Benjamin's classical Arcades Project, Consuming Media
is a pioneering exploration of the interface between communication,
shopping and everyday life. Based on a six-year study by over a dozen
scholars on a specific site, it analyses the links between power, media
and consumption in contemporary urban culture. Illustrated with rich
ethnographic detail, Consuming Media scrutinises four main media
circuits - print media, media images, sound and motion, and hardware
machines - to assess how media texts and technologies are selected,
purchased and used. Exploring the relations between different media, the
nature of cultural citizenship and the power relations of public space,
Consuming Media presents an ethnography of globalisation and develops a
new approach to understanding media consumption.
