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Media Theory

Media Theory is an academic discipline that examines how media technologies and forms shape rhetorical practices, meaning production, and cultural communication.

13.7K

Publications

918K

Citations

15.1K

Authors

3.1K

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2017–2026

3.7K

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Publications

13.7K

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

Stuart Levine, Marshall McLuhan · American Quarterly · 1964 · 12.4K citations

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What is Twitter, a social network or a news media?

Haewoon Kwak, Changhyun Lee, Hosung Park et al. · 2010 · 6.7K citations · Full text

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.

James R. Bennett, Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1989 · 5.5K citations

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The media equation: how people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 4.9K citations

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I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience

Alice Marwick, danah boyd · New Media & Society · 2010 · 4.5K citations

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Authors

15.1K

  1. SL
    Sonia Livingstone

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    29 publications · 3.9K citations

    27

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  2. MD
    Mark Deuze

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    40 publications · 6.4K citations

    27

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  3. DB
    David Buckingham

    University of London, United Kingdom

    32 publications · 3K citations

    23

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  4. NC
    Nick Couldry

    London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

    31 publications · 4.2K citations

    22

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  5. CF
    Christian Fuchs

    University of Westminster, United Kingdom

    28 publications · 2.1K citations

    19

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Institutions

3.1K

  1. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    59 h-index

    201 publications

    25K citations

  2. London School of Economics and Political Science

    London, United Kingdom

    53 h-index

    118 publications

    16.3K citations

  3. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    49 h-index

    123 publications

    11.5K citations

  4. Queensland University of Technology

    Brisbane, Australia

    45 h-index

    124 publications

    9.8K citations

  5. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    43 h-index

    117 publications

    15.7K citations

  6. Schlumberger (Ireland)

    Dublin, Ireland

    41 h-index

    105 publications

    5.4K citations

  7. University of Southern California

    Los Angeles, United States

    41 h-index

    99 publications

    11.8K citations

  8. University of Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    40 h-index

    103 publications

    12.6K citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 504 publications · 80.7K citations

    128

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  2. New Media & Society

    307 publications · 36.6K citations

    88

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  3. Journal of Communication

    196 publications · 32.7K citations

    80

    h-index

  4. Media Culture & Society

    357 publications · 21.8K citations

    79

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  5. Journalism

    316 publications · 19.3K citations

    71

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See also

Media Theory

Core Concepts

Historical Development

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