TY  - BOOK
AU  - David Gauntlett
PY  - 2014
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453914717
TI  - Making Media Studies
T2  - The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1471-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051404
N2  - In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making – not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media. Gauntlett suggests that media studies scholars have failed to recognise the significance of everyday creativity – the vital drive of people to make, exchange, and learn together, supported by online networks. He argues that we should think about media in terms of conversations, inspirations, and making things happen. Media studies can be about genuine social change, if we recognise the significance of everyday creativity, work to transform our tools, and learn to use them wisely. Making Media Studies is a lively, readable, and heartfelt manifesto from the author of Making is Connecting.
KW  - Building knowledge, Everyday creativity, Social change, Online network, Creative engagement
LA  - English
ER  -