- Bernard Miège
Bernard Miège is Emeritus Professor of Communication and Information Science ( _fr. "Professeur émérite de sciences de l'information et de la communication") at
Stendhal University inGrenoble . He was educated atParis University , both in political studies and in economics. He has a Ph.D. in economics (Paris) and another Ph. D in humanities (Bordeaux). He is the author of fifteen works in the following fields; The cultural industries, the introduction of the technologies of information and communication in the society and in the organisations, and the analysis of the theories of communication.He is one of the most influential founders of the 'cultural industries' approach, which signified a break from Adorno and Horkheimer's influential theorisation of the 'Culture Industry'. While Adorno and Horkheimer saw culture as subsumed by capital, and by an abstract mode of 'instrumental reason', Miège rejected what he saw as their economic determinism, arguing that the cultural industries were far more complex than their analysis allowed for. They were not a unified field, and he argued that whilst there was indeed increased commodification of culture by the introduction of industrial methods of production, this new technology also created the possibilities for new exciting innovations. Miège's work has been highly influential, in particular on communication studies in the UK, influencing important academic commentators on the media such as Nicholas Garnham and David Hesmondhalgh.
elected works
*"La pense communicationnelle", Grenoble: PUG, 1995. ISBN 9782706106217
**Review, Laramee, A. 2006. "Bernard Miege, La pensee communicationnelle". Communication, Information, Medias, Theories Pratiques. 25, no. 1: 347-350.
*"La société conquise par la communication: la communication entre l'industrie et l'espace public", tome 2, Grenoble: PUG, 1997. ISBN 9782706103285
*"The Capitalization of Cultural Production." New York, N.Y.: International General, 1989.
*"Médias et communication en Europe." Grenoble: Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1990.
*with Patrick Pajon, and Jean-Michel Salaün. "L'industrialisation de l'audiovisuel: des programmes pour les nouveaux médias." Babel. Paris: Aubier, 1986
*"La Production du cinéma." Média et compagnie(s). Grenoble: Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1980.
*with Lacroix, Jean-Guy, B and Gaétan Tremblay. "De la télématique aux autoroutes électroniques: le grand projet reconduit." Communication, culture et société. Sainte-Foy, Québec: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1994.
*"Questionner la société de l'information." Paris: Hermès Science Publications, 2000References
[http://w3.u-grenoble3.fr/gresec/membres/miege.htm Profile at Stendhal University]
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