Media Frictions

This edited collection presents new work by leading international scholars that addresses the multi-layered meaning of frictions within empirical and theoretical research across media and communications, digital technologies, culture and society.

It brings together an impressive range of transnational scholars to offer original perspectives on the dynamics of media friction as social tensions, instabilities and power inequalities. Together, the chapters provide a timely opportunity to understand both the creative force and negative consequences of frictions within media and society.

The book will be of interest to scholars and students of television, media and cultural studies.


Table of contents
 

List of Contributors

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Media Frictions

Annette Hill, Joke Hermes, Christine Geraghty and Simon Dawes

Part One: Frictions within media, communications and culture

Chapter One: De-Provincialising Media and Communications: Frictions in the New World Disorder

David Morley

Chapter Two: The Friction of the Social: Ambiguities in networked connections

Susanna Paasonen

Chapter Three: Silicon Valley and the Politics of Friction

Jakko Kemper

Chapter Four: Befriending friction. On how to build data literacy in times of generative AI

Joke Hermes

Part Two: Frictions within social and cultural environments

Chapter Five: Repulsive Media

Dylan Mulvin

Chapter Six: The frictions of concepts and actual actions: divide, escapism and roofless people's media use

Maren Hartmann

Chapter Seven: Performing access: the friction of finding yourself outside of gender

Lidia Pedro Sole

Chapter Eight: Juxtaposed frictions in an urban environment: a visual essay

Zaki Habibi

Part Three: Friction within audience engagement and genres

Chapter Nine: Authenticity Frictions: audience engagement with factuality and reality in streaming platforms

Annette Hill

Chapter Ten: The frictions of news engagement as political practice in the pro-Palestinian movement

Jian Chung Lee

Chapter Eleven: Friction in Television Drama: the case of Coronation Street (UK, Granada, 1960)

Christine Geraghty

Chapter Twelve: Once upon a Time: documentary stories about frictional pasts.

Ann Gray

Index