Introduction : reappraising media sociology / Silvio Waisbord -- Part I. Media, institutions, and politics. Strategy follows structure : a media sociology manifesto / Rodney Benson -- Linking media sociology to political development in trans-legislative democracies / Michael Schudson -- Back to the future? : the sociology of news and journalism from black and white to the digital age / Howard Tumber -- Part II. Media industries and audiences. Agency, social interaction, and audience studies / Richard Butsch -- Media industry sociology : mainstream, critical, and cultural perspectives / Timothy Havens -- The political economy of media work and watching / Toby Miller -- Part III. Media representations. When media representation met sociology / Shani Orgad -- Too little but not too late : sociological contributions to feminist media studies / Laura Grindstaff and Andrea Press -- Media sociology and the study of race / Ronald N. Jacobs -- Part IV. Digital technologies, self, and society. Digital media technology and the spirit of the new capitalism : what future for "aesthetic critique"? / Graeme Kirkpatrick -- Mobile communication and mediated interpersonal communication / Rich Ling -- Sociology and the socially mediated self / Jeff Pooley.

Where is sociology in contemporary media studies? How do sociological questions and arguments shape media analysis? These are the questions addressed in this timely collection on media sociology.