Description
Product ID: | 9781032058757 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Media Convergence |
Subtitle: | The Three Degrees of Network, Mass, and Interpersonal Communication |
Authors: | Author: Klaus Bruhn Jensen |
Page Count: | 208 |
Subjects: | Communication studies, Communication studies, Media studies, Sociology, Media studies, Sociology |
Description: | This second edition of Klaus Bruhn Jensen’s exploration of communication in developing digital media furthers the conversation around the ongoing society-wide and worldwide digitalization of human communication. This second edition furthers conversations about the ongoing society-wide and worldwide digitalization of human communication. Reviewing the long lines in the history of media and communication – from writing via printing and broadcasting to computing – the book lays out three general types of media: the human body enabling face-to-face communication here and now; the technically reproduced means of mass communication across space and time; and the digital technologies integrating one-to-one, one-to-many, as well as many-to-many interactions. All these communicative practices coexist in contemporary media environments. Across cultures, genders, and age groups, people go on communicating in the flesh, via wires, and over the air, as illustrated though case studies of mobile communication on mundane matters, and of climate change as a global challenge for human communication and coexistence. The second edition includes:
Interdisciplinary in scope to showcase the wide-reaching cultural consequences of media convergence, this book is ideal for advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars in the fields of media, communication, and cultural studies. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-03-18 |