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This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book
publishing industry collided with the great technological
revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the
self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks,
Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of
technological disruption in one of our most important and
successful creative industries. Like other sectors, publishing has
been thrown into disarray by the digital revolution. The foundation
on which this industry had been based for 500 years - the packaging
and sale of words and images in the form of printed books - was
called into question by a technological revolution that enabled
symbolic content to be stored, manipulated and transmitted quickly
and cheaply. Publishers and retailers found themselves facing a
proliferation of new players who were offering new products and
services and challenging some of their most deeply held principles
and beliefs. The old industry was suddenly thrust into the
limelight as bitter conflicts erupted between publishers and new
entrants, including powerful new tech giants who saw the world in
very different ways. The book wars had begun. While ebooks were at
the heart of many of these conflicts, Thompson argues that the most
fundamental consequences lie elsewhere. The print-on-paper book has
proven to be a remarkably resilient cultural form, but the digital
revolution has transformed the industry in other ways, spawning new
players which now wield unprecedented power and giving rise to an
array of new publishing forms. Most important of all, it has
transformed the broader information and communication environment,
creating new challenges and new opportunities for publishers as
they seek to redefine their role in the digital age. This
unrivalled account of the book publishing industry as it faces its
greatest challenge since Gutenberg will be essential reading for
anyone interested in books and their future.
This book tells the story of the turbulent decades when the book
publishing industry collided with the great technological
revolution of our time. From the surge of ebooks to the
self-publishing explosion and the growing popularity of audiobooks,
Book Wars provides a comprehensive and fine-grained account of
technological disruption in one of our most important and
successful creative industries. Like other sectors, publishing has
been thrown into disarray by the digital revolution. The foundation
on which this industry had been based for 500 years - the packaging
and sale of words and images in the form of printed books - was
called into question by a technological revolution that enabled
symbolic content to be stored, manipulated and transmitted quickly
and cheaply. Publishers and retailers found themselves facing a
proliferation of new players who were offering new products and
services and challenging some of their most deeply held principles
and beliefs. The old industry was suddenly thrust into the
limelight as bitter conflicts erupted between publishers and new
entrants, including powerful new tech giants who saw the world in
very different ways. The book wars had begun. While ebooks were at
the heart of many of these conflicts, Thompson argues that the most
fundamental consequences lie elsewhere. The print-on-paper book has
proven to be a remarkably resilient cultural form, but the digital
revolution has transformed the industry in other ways, spawning new
players which now wield unprecedented power and giving rise to an
array of new publishing forms. Most important of all, it has
transformed the broader information and communication environment,
creating new challenges and new opportunities for publishers as
they seek to redefine their role in the digital age. This
unrivalled account of the book publishing industry as it faces its
greatest challenge since Gutenberg will be essential reading for
anyone interested in books and their future.
What role have communication media played in the formation of
modern societies? How should we understand the social impact of new
forms of communication and information diffusion, from the advent
of printing in fifteenth-century Europe to the expansion of global
communication networks today? In this major new work, Thompson
addresses these and other questions by elaborating a distinctive
social theory of communication media and their impact. He argues
that the development of communication media has transformed the
spatial and temporal constitution of social life, creating new
forms of action and interaction which are no longer linked to the
sharing of a common locale. The consequences of this transformation
are far-reaching and impinge on many aspects of our lives, from the
most intimate aspects of personal experience and self-formation to
the changing nature of power and visibility in the public domain.
Combining breadth of vision with sensitivity to detail, this book
situates the study of the media where it belongs: among a set of
disciplines concerned with the emergence, development and
structural characteristics of modern societies and their futures.
In this major work, informed by materials from several disciplines
and theoretical orientations, the author develops a distinctive new
account of the theory of ideology and relates it to the analysis of
culture and mass communication in modern societies. In the two
centuries since is first appeared in France, the concept of
ideology has undergone many transformations. It has been twisted,
reformulated, recast, and finally filtered back into the everyday
language of social and political life. Although there is much that
is misleading and erroneous in the traditions of ideology, the
author shows that it still defines a terrain of analysis that
remains central to contemporary social sciences and continues to be
the site of lively theoretical debate. The key to his analysis is
what he terms the "mediazation" of the culture-the general process
by which the transmission of symbolic forms becomes increasingly
reliant on the technical and institutional apparatuses of the media
industries. Building on the work of Geertz and others, the author
asserts that symbolic forms are embedded in such structured social
contexts as power relations, forms of conflict, and inequalities in
the distribution of resources, and that any discussion of mass
communication must embrace its political as well as epistemological
content.
In this major work, informed by materials from several disciplines
and theoretical orientations, the author develops a distinctive new
account of the theory of ideology and relates it to the analysis of
culture and mass communication in modern societies. In the two
centuries since is first appeared in France, the concept of
ideology has undergone many transformations. It has been twisted,
reformulated, recast, and finally filtered back into the everyday
language of social and political life. Although there is much that
is misleading and erroneous in the traditions of ideology, the
author shows that it still defines a terrain of analysis that
remains central to contemporary social sciences and continues to be
the site of lively theoretical debate. The key to his analysis is
what he terms the "mediazation" of the culture-the general process
by which the transmission of symbolic forms becomes increasingly
reliant on the technical and institutional apparatuses of the media
industries. Building on the work of Geertz and others, the author
asserts that symbolic forms are embedded in such structured social
contexts as power relations, forms of conflict, and inequalities in
the distribution of resources, and that any discussion of mass
communication must embrace its political as well as epistemological
content.
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B. Thompson University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1913
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Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of
essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in
English before the volume's publication in 1981. As comprehensive
as it is illuminating, this lucid introduction to Ricoeur's
prolific contributions to sociological theory features his more
recent writings on the history of hermeneutics, its central themes
and issues, his own constructive position and its implications for
sociology, psychoanalysis and history. Presented in a fresh
twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially
commissioned preface written by Charles Taylor, illuminating its
enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this
classic work has been revived for a new generation of readers.
The study of ideology has traditionally been concerned not only
with political ideas and doctrines, but also with the ways in which
social relations are sustained through the representation of
institutions and events. These traditional concerns have been
transformed in recent years by investigations into the nature of
language and its role in social life. Exploring the links between
language and ideology has become one of the most pressing tasks of
social and political analysis. In this volume John B. Thompson
examines some of the outstanding contemporary contributions to the
study of ideology. He focuses primarily on European social
theorists and philosophers, providing concise and critical
appraisals of their work. In addition to asessing the contributions
of well-known thinkers, such as Jurgen Habermas and Paul Ricoeur,
Thompson introduces the reader to a rich variety of authors who
habe been neglected in the English-speaking world: Cornelius
Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Pecheux, Jean
Pierre Faye. This work of these authors ia analyzed with a
constructive aim: through a sympathetic assessment of their views,
Thompson formulates the elements of a novel account of ideology. By
addressing substantive and methodological issues as well as
abstract questions of justification and critique, this account
seeks to integrate sociological and philosophical considerations in
a unified framework for the analysis of ideology. Studies in the
Theory of Ideology will be essential reading for anyone intersted
in the most important developments in European philosophy and
modern social thought. This title is part of UC Press's Voices
Revived program, which commemorates University of California
Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and
give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to
1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1984.
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