Roger Silverstone

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The inspiration behind Polis.[1]

In his last, posthumously published, book Mediapolis:

the influences of Silverstone’s Jewish background are most evident... It is also his most political book, and in it he was influenced by such Jewish thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin and Emmanuel Levinas. Adapting Arendt’s idea of the “polis” as a space of political dialogue, he developed the concept of the “mediapolis” to explore the reality and potential of global communication. He saw the media as the primary frame for people’s understanding of the world, with huge moral significance for how the “other” is treated.[2]

Career

  • born Birkenhead, Cheshire 15 June 1945;
  • Lecturer, then Reader, in Sociology, Brunel University 1976-91,
  • Director, Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology 1987-91;
  • Professor of Media Studies, Sussex University 1991-98;
  • Professor of Media and Communications, London School of Economics 1998-2006;
  • died Oxford 16 July 2006.[3]


References and Resources

Resources

Publications

  • R. Silverstone, Television and Everyday Life, Routledge, 1994.
  • R. Silverstone, Visions of Surburbia, Routledge, 1996.
  • R. Silverstone, Communication by Design: The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies, Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • R. Silverstone, Why Study the Media?, SAGE Publications 1999.
  • Raymond Williams, (introduction by R. Silverstone), Television: Technology and Cultural Form, Routledge Classics, 2003.
  • R. Silverstone, Media and Morality: On the Rise of the Mediapolis, Polity Press 2006 (1st Edition). Book used in a course organized by Polis [1]

References

  1. Nick Couldry, 'Professor Roger Silverstone, Media studies pioneer at the LSE', The Independent, Published: 20 July 2006
  2. From The Times August 11, 2006, Professor Roger Silverstone Influential writer and theoretician in media studies, June 15, 1945 - July 16, 2006
  3. Couldry, Ibid.