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Mediarchy
We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. Our political regimes are based less on nations or citizens than on audiences shaped by the media. We assume that our social and political destinies are shaped by the will of the people without realizing that ‘the people’ are always produced, both as individuals and as aggregates, by the media: we are all embedded in mediated publics, ‘intra-structured’ by the apparatuses of communication that govern our interactions. In this major book, Yves Citton maps out the new regime of experience, media and power that he designates by the term ‘mediarchy’. To understand mediarchy, we need to look both at the effects that the media have on us and also at the new forms of being and experience that they induce in us. We can never entirely escape from the effects of the mediarchies that operate through us but by becoming more aware of their conditioning, we can develop the new forms of political analysis and practice which are essential if we are to rise to the unprecedented challenges of our time. This comprehensive and far-reaching book will be essential reading for students and scholars in media and communications, politics and sociology, and it will be of great interest to anyone concerned about the multiple and complex ways that the media – from newspapers and TV to social media and the internet – shape our social, political and personal lives today.
The Transformation and Turnaround of Employers' Federation SEIFSA
“Nyatsumba’s book is a real tale of South Africa’s deterioration of governance. The book is a tale of how national infrastructure collapse, deteriorating governance, lack of accountability and corruption have become institutionalised” – Dr Lumkile Mondi, Economics Lecturer at the School of Economics and Finance at the University of the Witwatersrand and former Chief Economist at the Industrial Development Corporation. A turnaround strategy expert, Chartered Director (SA) and Business Rescue Practitioner, Kaizer Mabhilidi Nyatsumba was the first – and so far only – black CEO of the Steel and Engineering Industries Federation of Southern Africa (SEIFSA) and that organisation’s second-longest-serving CEO during the democratic era. He holds a PhD in Business Management from the University of Johannesburg, an MBA from the University of Hull in the UK and a BA in English from Georgetown University in the USA, among other qualifications.