Media convergence : the three degrees of network, mass, and interpersonal communication /
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| Author / Creator: | JENSEN, KLAUS BRUHN. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. |
| Description: | x, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7998287 |
| Summary: | <p>The development of digital media presents a unique opportunity to reconsider what communication is, and what individuals, groups, and societies might hope to accomplish through new as well as old media. At a time when digital media still provoke both utopian and dystopian views of their likely consequences, Klaus Bruhn Jensen places these 'new' media in a comparative perspective together with 'old' mass media and face-to-face communication, restating the two classic questions of media studies: what do media do to people, and what do people do with media? </p> <p>Media Convergence makes a distinction between three general types of media: the human body enabling communication in the flesh; the technically reproduced means of mass communication; and the digital technologies facilitating interaction one-to-one, one-to-many, as well as many-to-many.</p> <p>Features include:</p> case studies, including mobile phones in everyday life, the Muhammad cartoons controversy and climate change as a global challenge for human communication and political action diagrams, figures, and tables summarizing key concepts beyond standard 'models of communication' systematic cross-referencing. Major terms are highlighted and cross-referenced throughout, with key concepts defined in margin notes. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 195 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780415482035 0415482038 9780415482042 0415482046 9780203855485 0203855485 |
