Media Realities

“Carefully curated and culturally sensitive, this interdisciplinary collection of essays offers new perspectives on the contemporary realities of our globalized media world.” Daya Thussu, Professor of International Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University “Media Realities is a surprisingly fresh and thoroughly intriguing mosaic of insights into the peculiar differences and samenesses of Eastern and Western media realities—probably the realities most of us today spend most of our time with in one way or another. Quite unlikely for an academic book, it’s almost a page turner, due to its kaleidoscopic and sometimes experimental approach.” Hans-Georg Moeller, Professor of Philosophy, University of Macau ""Media Realities rethinks the mass media in sweeping theoretical terms—opening a space for a reevaluation of the relationship between universities, social scientists, and the media."" Emily Erikson, Professor of Sociology, Yale University “Media do not merely report on reality; they create the frameworks within which it can be perceived, debated, and remembered. Media Realities reminds us—all of us—that the realities we inhabit are mediated realities: shaped, sustained, and shared by everyone. In an age when wars, crises, and politics unfold as much in their staging as in their substance, this volume calls us to reflect on the new realities of and by all."" Zhao Tingyang, Professor of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences