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He offers, instead, a nuanced picture of how 'newer' and 'older' media logics he also eschews the terms new and old media interact, compete, cooperate, and co-opt each other and, in doing so, create the interdependent, negotiated, hybridizing media systems that characterize Britain and the United States today. The book offers a clarion call for studying the various hybrid "logics" that help define the current media system. Twenty-first century political communication, Chadwick argues, cannot be neatly divided into a competition between new and old media effects.

Instead, Chadwick directs our attention towards the messy in-betweens that construct power in the media system through their interactions.


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This is an important and timely book. This is a vital approach in the study of digital media, where we desperately need a synthesized understanding of what is, arguably, the biggest change contemporary media have experienced since news hit the airwaves on television. Forget about organizational boundaries, gatekeeping, and simple distinctions between information producers and consumers.

We have entered an age of hybrid media in which changing assemblages of communication are transforming political processes.

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Chadwick explains how to understand these hybrid systems, and raises the possibility that the proliferation and democratization of communication technologies will make hybridity the new norm. Lawrence Professor of Communication, University of Washington. Andrew Chadwick's new book by contrast focuses on what people actually do with today's combinations of old and new media, particularly those in media or politics whose professional lives are devoted to managing that interface.

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Through a concept of 'hybrid media' well-grounded in media history and social theory, Chadwick provides a smart and much-needed manual for an age of bewildering change. In that aim, he is extraordinarily successful.


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Most importantly, the book directly and accessibly addresses a set of questions that have significant implications across sociology, political science, and media and communication research-as well as outside the academy-concerning how power, citizenship, and democracy work in hybrid media environments. This transformation which has been facilitated by digital technologies has broken the 'elite political-media nexus' and enabled ordinary citizens to make strategic interferences in order to safeguard the public interest.

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The book is a valuable contribution to the debates on the rupture caused by digital technologies which has changed the power relations in society, and it would be useful for scholars of political communication, social theory, media studies and comparative politics. Donna rated it really liked it Jul 17, Daniel Johansen Guanio rated it really liked it Oct 18, John rated it really liked it Sep 28, Dario Giardina rated it really liked it Oct 21, Florian rated it it was amazing Jul 28, David rated it it was amazing Mar 16, Madison Krchnavy rated it liked it Oct 11, Andreas Jungherr rated it it was amazing Sep 07, Roman rated it really liked it Jan 01, Trevor Cory rated it really liked it Oct 27, Cian O'donovan rated it liked it Jun 22, Federico Aureggi rated it really liked it Dec 28, Luis rated it really liked it Aug 14, Sark rated it really liked it Nov 06, Lukas Mozdeika rated it it was ok Nov 16, Tiffany rated it it was amazing Sep 15, Pratiksha rated it liked it Mar 06, Lori marked it as to-read Aug 16, Ben Caudron added it Nov 06, Lode Goukens marked it as to-read Jul 13, Marcell Mars added it Aug 25, Tom marked it as to-read Oct 06, Sustainartpaige marked it as to-read May 24, Sandeep Mertia marked it as to-read Jun 26, Jon Sullivan marked it as to-read Aug 30, Irene marked it as to-read Sep 16, Julian marked it as to-read Nov 12, Doaa added it Jan 27, Abdellah Dani marked it as to-read Mar 04, Kecheng Fang added it Mar 14, Carmen Rodriguez marked it as to-read May 03, New Atlantis marked it as to-read Dec 06, Michelle Reid added it Mar 29, Ian Reucroft marked it as to-read Nov 20, Leena Luppakorva added it Dec 06, Ee marked it as to-read Dec 10, Katarina marked it as to-read Dec 18, Corinne marked it as to-read Feb 20, Meredith Metzler added it Mar 02, Cairit Eit marked it as to-read Apr 19, Antonia Rubtsova marked it as to-read May 12, Anil Kahvecioglu is currently reading it Jun 19, Ben marked it as to-read Jul 04, Khaled Nasir marked it as to-read Jul 08, Alex Marsh marked it as to-read Aug 15, Simone marked it as to-read Sep 19, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

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