The 1980s witnessed a rapid growth of communication technology and an immense expansion of new media around the globe. The development of new information and communication technologies has emphasized again the importance of economic, social, political, and cultural institutions associated with the definitions of new technologies. Many of the traditional conceptions of the relation of the media to democracy were predicated upon a certain perception of communication technology and the major contemporary debates related to democratization have to do, again, with the deployment of...
The 1980s witnessed a rapid growth of communication technology and an immense expansion of new media around the globe. The development of new infor...
Dallas W. Smythe has made important contributions to the study of the political economy of communications, as well as to the critical study of communication and information. His work has probed the neglected corners of the academic study of communication research, challenging and inspiring students and researchers for nearly 50 years. Celebrating Dallas Smythe, this volume includes 19 articles that draw on his work and furthur challenge existing communications structures and policies. The contributions examine case studies of the political economy of communication and information from...
Dallas W. Smythe has made important contributions to the study of the political economy of communications, as well as to the critical study of comm...
A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century
Explores a diverse range of topics and theories that have led to television's current incarnation, and predict its likely future
Covers technology and aesthetics, television's relationship to the state, televisual commerce; texts, representation, genre, internationalism, and audience reception and effects
Essays are by an international group of first-rate scholars
For information, news, and content from...
A Companion to Television is a magisterial collection of 31 original essays that charter the field of television studies over the past century ...
Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News Corp., The Microsoft Corporation) in terms of revenues, but also media corporations that hold considerable power within national, regional, or geolinguistic contexts (Televisa, The Bertelsmann Group, Sony Corporation). Each chapter approaches a different corporation through the lens of economy,...
Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which...
Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News Corp., The Microsoft Corporation) in terms of revenues, but also media corporations that hold considerable power within national, regional, or geolinguistic contexts (Televisa, The Bertelsmann Group, Sony Corporation). Each chapter approaches a different corporation through the lens of...
Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways...
