Social Media and the Public Sphere. An Interview with John B. Thompson

Dr. John Brookshire Thompson, who is of North American origin but currently works at the Uni­versity of Cambridge, is a sociologist interested in understanding the role of the mass media in the de­velopment of modern society and culture. His theo­retical expositions –especially those concentrated in...

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Autores: Reviglio, Cecilia, Raimondo Anselmino, Natalia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:Uruguay
Institución:Universidad ORT Uruguay
Repositorio:RAD
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:rad.ort.edu.uy:20.500.11968/3782
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/inmediaciones-de-la-comunicacion/article/view/2837
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11968/3782
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11968/3782
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:modern culture
mediatization
public sphere
cultura moderna
mediatización
esfera pública
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Sumario:Dr. John Brookshire Thompson, who is of North American origin but currently works at the Uni­versity of Cambridge, is a sociologist interested in understanding the role of the mass media in the de­velopment of modern society and culture. His theo­retical expositions –especially those concentrated in his book The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media (Polity Press, 1995)– are a constant ref­erence in the productions of European scholars who theorizing around the concept of mediatization. In the present interview, the first reflections on trans­formations in the public sphere were developed by Thompson in the mid-1990s, are revisited under the light of a media ecosystem different in part.