Making Media Studies: The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies (93) (Digital Formations) - Hardcover

"Sitting down with David Gauntlett's `Making Media Studies' is like having a conversation with an erudite, yet still optimistic scholar. Gauntlett celebrates `everyday makers' on digital platforms such as YouTube, giving readers the pragmatic and conceptual tools needed to understand the positive aspects of this ongoing cultural shift. The result is a deeply engaging antidote to more pessimistic stirrings." (Matt Ratto, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto) "What Gauntlett offers is a bold, imaginative - and occasionally provocative - view of what media studies might become. This is a lively contribution to thinking about media and communications." (Shaun Moores, Professor, University of Sunderland) "Sitting down with David Gauntlett's `Making Media Studies' is like having a conversation with an erudite, yet still optimistic scholar. Gauntlett celebrates `everyday makers' on digital platforms such as YouTube, giving readers the pragmatic and conceptual tools needed to understand the positive aspects of this ongoing cultural shift. The result is a deeply engaging antidote to more pessimistic stirrings." (Matt Ratto, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto) "What Gauntlett offers is a bold, imaginative - and occasionally provocative - view of what media studies might become. This is a lively contribution to thinking about media and communications." (Shaun Moores, Professor, University of Sunderland)

David Gauntlett is a Professor in the Faculty of Media, Arts and Design and Co-Director of the Communications and Media Research Institute at the University of Westminster, United Kingdom. See davidgauntlett.com for further information, blog, and videos.