Contents
Introduction: Reappraising Media Sociology
Silvio Waisbord
Part I Media, Institutions, and Politics

1 Strategy Follows Structure: A Media Sociology Manifesto
Rodney Benson
2 Linking Media Sociology to Political Development in Trans-Legislative Democracies
Michael Schudson
3 Back to the Future? The Sociology of News and Journalism from Black and White to the Digital Age
Howard Tumber
Part II Media Industries and Audiences
4 Agency, Social Interaction, and Audience Studies
Richard Butsch
5 Media Industry Sociology: Mainstream, Critical, and Cultural Perspectives
Timothy Havens
6 The Political Economy of Media Work and Watching
Toby Miller
Part III Media representations
7 When Media Representation Met Sociology
Shani Orgad
8 Too Little But Not Too Late: Sociological Contributions to Feminist Media Studies
Laura Grindstaff and Andrea Press
9 Media Sociology and the Study of Race
Ronald N. Jacobs
Part IV Digital Technologies, Self, and Society
10 Digital Media Technology and the Spirit of the New Capitalism: What Future for “Aesthetic Critique”?
Graeme Kirkpatrick
11 Mobile Communication and Mediated Interpersonal Communication
Rich Ling
12 Sociology and the Socially Mediated Self
Jeff Pooley
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