John B Thompson

Biographic Data

ID3610024
NAMEJohn B Thompson
GIVEN NAMESJohn B
FAMILY NAMEThompson
SIGNATURETHOMPSON J B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cambridge
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS630
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX9

  • The Pilgrimage to Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital Investment in Publishing-Related Tech Start-ups

    Open AccessJohn Thompson, John B ThompsonARTICLEMedia Industries2022

    Many entrepreneurs in the world of tech start-ups seek venture capital funding to establish and grow their businesses, but this can be a process fraught with difficulties and laden with long-term consequences. Most attempts to secure VC funding will fail, and most start-ups that are VC-funded will not succeed. Moreover, start-ups that do secure VC funding will tend to find themselves on a developmental trajectory that is very different from that …

  • Mediated Interaction in the Digital Age

    Open AccessJohn Thompson, John B ThompsonARTICLETheory Culture & Society2020

    In The Media and Modernity, Thompson develops an interactional theory of communication media that distinguishes between three basic types of interaction: face-to-face interaction, mediated interaction, and mediated quasi-interaction. In the light of the digital revolution and the growth of the internet, this paper introduces a fourth type: mediated online interaction. Drawing on Goffman’s distinction between front regions and back regions, Thomps…

  • Back to Addams and Richmond: Was Social Work Really a Divided House in the Beginning

    John Thompson, John B Thompson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sociology & Social…2019Cited by: 1

    Social work has experienced unique tensions related to its professional identity and dual purpose of social reform and individualized treatment. Scholars have represented this dual purpose, epitomized by Jane Addams and Mary Richmond, as indicating irreconcilable differences. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the writings and speeches of Mary Richmond and Jane Addams, and, based on this inquiry, to assert that their respective approache…

  • The model of the text: Meaningful action considered as a text

    Open AccessPaul Ricoeur, John B ThompsonCHAPTERHermeneutics and the Human Sciences2016

    My aim in this essay is to test an hypothesis which I shall expound briefly. I assume that the primary sense of the word ‘hermeneutics’ concerns the rules required for the interpretation of the written documents of our culture. In assuming this starting point I am remaining faithful to the concept of Auslegung as it was stated by Wilhelm Dilthey; whereas Verstehen (understanding, comprehension) relies on the recognition of what a foreign subject …

  • Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation

    Open AccessPaul Ricoeur, John B ThompsonBOOKHermeneutics and the Human Sciences2016

    Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in English before the volume's publication in 1981. As comprehensive as it is illuminating, this lucid introduction to Ricoeur's prolific contributions to sociological theory features his more recent writings on the history of hermeneutics, its central themes and issues, his own constructive position and its implications f…

  • Books and culture in the digital age

    Open AccessJohn Thompson, John B ThompsonARTICLEComunicación y Sociedad2016

    Entrevista a John B. Thompson

  • Los límites cambiantes de la vida pública y la privada

    Open AccessJohn Thompson, John B ThompsonARTICLEComunicación y Sociedad2015

    La proliferación de nuevas tecnologías de comunicación de hoy, nos obliga a reconsiderar la naturaleza de la vida pública y privada y las cambiantes relaciones entre éstas. En las sociedades contemporáneas los límites entre lo público y privado se confunden y cambian constantemente. Thompson utiliza su teoría social de los medios para desarrollar una nueva perspectiva sobre la distinción entre lo público y lo privado en donde las fronteras que ex…

  • Connecting Theory to Practice: Karl Barth, Capability Theory and Psychiatric Social Work

    Open AccessJohn Thompson, John B ThompsonARTICLEPastoral Psychology2012References: 1

  • Shifting Boundaries of Public and Private Life

    Open AccessJohn Thompson, John B ThompsonARTICLEMatrizes2011Cited by: 41References: 9

    High-profile political scandals are symptomatic of a profound transformation of the relations between public and private life that has accompanied and helped to shape the development of modern societies. While the distinction between public and private life is not unique to modern societies, the emergence of new media of communication, from print to radio, television and the internet, has altered the very nature of the public, the private and the…

  • The New Visibility

    Open AccessJohn Thompson, John B ThompsonARTICLEMatrizes2008Cited by: 205References: 2

    This article examines the characteristics of a new form of visibility which has become a pervasive feature of the modern world and which is linked to the development of communication media. With the development of the media, the visibility of individuals, actions and events is severed from the sharing of a common locale: one no longer has to be present in the same spatial-temporal setting in order to see the other or to witness an action or event…

  • L'édition savante à la croisée des chemins

    John Thompson, John B ThompsonARTICLEActes de la recherche en sciences…2006

    Ces dernières années, de nombreux secteurs de l’édition ont connu des temps difficiles. Cet article montre qu’on ne peut comprendre cette situation qu’à la condition de reconstruire la structure et la dynamique des différents champs qui la composent. L’article se concentre sur l’édition savante et l’édition pour l’enseignement supérieur en Grande-Bretagne et aux États-Unis. Il analyse la dynamique de ces deux champs au cours des trente dernières …

  • La nueva visibilidad

    Open AccessJohn B ThompsonARTICLEPapers Revista de Sociologia2005Cited by: 1

    Aquest article examina les característiques d’una nova manera de visibilitat que s’ha convertit en un aspecte dominant del món modern vinculat al desenvolupament dels mitjans de comunicació de masses. Amb el desenvolupament dels mitjans, la visibilitat dels individus, les seves accions i esdeveniments, s’ha separat de l’espai comú compartit. Ja no cal estar present en el mateix escenari en l’espai i el temps per veure els altres o ser testimoni d…

  • La nouvelle visibilité

    John B ThompsonARTICLERéseaux2005Cited by: 13

    Une distinction doit être introduite entre une forme d'invisibilité sociale qui est invoquée métaphoriquement et une forme d'invisibilité effective qui est expérimentée par des acteurs sociaux. On peut comprendre que l'invisibilité soit vécue sur un mode négatif dès lors que l'on saisi le mode de constitution de la visibilité sociale qui se comprend ontogénétiquement dans les gestes expressifs dont les sujets sociaux sont les destinataires dès le…

  • Political Scandal: Power and Visibility in the Media Age

    Silvio Waisbord, John Thompson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2002

  • Langage et pouvoir symbolique

    Pierre Bourdieu, John B ThompsonBOOKLangage et pouvoir symbolique2001Cited by: 1

    Message destine a etre dechiffre, la parole est aussi un instrument de pouvoir. L'ouvrage se propose d'integrer des traditions fictivement opposees pour construire une theorie du pouvoir symbolique, outil indispensable pour comprendre son terrain d'exercice privilegie, celui de la politique. ©Electre 2018

  • Transformation de la visibilité

    John B Thompson, Dominique Pasquier et al.ARTICLERéseaux2000Cited by: 3

    The proliferation of forms of distance communication not only generates increasingly large flows of information, it is also responsible for a more fundamental transformation of political and social life and the modalities of interaction. The author focuses on changes in regimes of visibility induced by new media. Because it is deterritorialized, mediated interaction is also less easy to control. The actors concerned no longer have the resources t…

  • The media and modernity: A Social Theory of the Media

    John B ThompsonBOOKThe media and modernity1995Cited by: 20

  • The Theory of the Public Sphere

    Open AccessJohn Thompson, John B ThompsonARTICLETheory Culture & Society1993Cited by: 13References: 2

  • Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

    M Schudson, John Thompson et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1992

  • Language and Symbolic Power

    Murray Edelman, Pierre Bourdieu et al.REVIEWContemporary Sociology A Journal…1992Cited by: 4

  • Ideology and Modern Culture. Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

    Fred Weinstein, John Thompson et al.ARTICLEHistory and Theory1992

  • Ideology and Modern Culture

    John B Thompson, John ThompsonBOOKIdeology and Modern Culture1991Cited by: 155

  • Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

    John Thompson, John B ThompsonARTICLEStanford University Press eBooks1991

    In this major work, informed by materials from several disciplines and theoretical orientations, the author develops a distinctive new account of the theory of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern societies. In the two centuries since is first appeared in France, the concept of ideology has undergone many transformations. It has been twisted, reformulated, recast, and finally filtered back into the e…

  • Depth Hermeneutics and the Analysis of Symbolic Forms: A Reply to Simon Locke

    Open AccessJohn Thompson, John B ThompsonARTICLESociology1991Cited by: 1References: 2

  • To Begin Anew

    Paul Colomy, Anthony Giddens et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1991