Making Media Studies ― The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies

The author focuses on creativity in media studies, emphasizing the DIY dimension of media production and creating media and communications, rather than receiving news, information, or entertainment. He considers the state of media studies; presents interviews discussing creativity and making in a media studies context and LEGO as a tool for thinking for creative communities; and discusses making things in the context of a digital, networked environment, including people's creative uses of the internet and how it has disrupted media industry practices and academic research. Some chapters have been previously published elsewhere. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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.