Written by two of the field's most eminent experts, this exciting new introduction to mass media makes connections between communication research and the reality of the media industry.
Understanding Media in the Digital Age shows readers how to navigate the world of traditional and new media while fostering an understanding of mass communication theory, history, active research findings, and professional experience.
In addition to introducing today’s convergent world of global media, the book gives readers a greater understanding of their own potential roles within the global media industries.
This book examines the real fake news: the constant flow of purposefully crafted, sensational, emotionally charged, misleading or totally fabricated information that mimics the form of mainstream news.
Understanding Media in the Digital Age: Connections for Communication, Society, and Culture
When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.
We are also grateful to Emma Coles for once again turning scribbles into professional graphics and to Sarah Glozer for her helpful comments on our first draft. Completing this book has been made easier by our colleagues whose positivity ...
This volume aims to set the agenda for research in the economics of digitization, with each chapter identifying a promising area of research.
On our contemporary media landscape, the potential of the written word is limitless. Repurposing print journalism for the Internet and beyond, convergent journalism invigorates and transforms how we create and...
Digital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society. This book critically examines digital innovations and their positive and negative implications.
Understanding Media in the Digital Age
This book provides a selection of international perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of media and communications research with emphasis placed on methodological approaches and new research domains.