This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. Using case studies of radio, internet, text messaging and photojournalism, it deploys Bourdieu's ideas to reveal how language in the media is implicated in broader social patterns of 'symbolic violence'.

JOHN MYLES is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of East London, UK. He has published articles on Bourdieu's sociology and cultural studies in journals including Media, Culture and Society, Theory, Culture and Society and Sociological Review.