The Economics and Politics of Convergence and Concentration in the UK and European Media
This book offers an up-to-date and timely critical overview of the contemporary media environment. The author: - examines the socio-political and cultural implications of media concentration - analyses how policy makers have responded - investigates the commercial and strategic advantages of consolidation - assesses the relationship between media ......
The history of audience research tells us that the relationship between the media and viewers, readers and listeners is complex and requires multiple methods of analysis. In Understanding Audiences, Andy Ruddock introduces students to the range of quantitative and qualitative methods and invites his readers to consider the merits of both. ......
In this wide-ranging overview, the Euromedia Research Group analyzes the nature and directions of the changes to broadcast and electronic media in Western Europe which are taking place. This volume, following on from the Group's "New Media Politics", explores the increasing importance of transitional multimedia corporations and the various challenges from commercialization and privatization to traditions of public service broadcasting. Particular attention is paid to the development of new forms of local media and the changing regulation of local media.
How Big Media and Power-hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship
Presents an account of an America in political and cultural decline.This book shows how mainstream media corporations like CNN, Fox, and NBC (General Electric) together with giant telecoms like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T have become administration pawns in a well-organised effort to hijack America.
`The book makes a successful attempt to map the potentially transformative effects of new media on various aspects of political insitiutions and culture, both at a theorectical and empirical level. Barrie Axford's discussion of the changing nature of political practice and technologies of political communication in relation to wider discourse of ......
The Rise of Personalism and the Reign of Amusement in 21st Century America
Dr.Foster(author of MELANCHOLY DUTY, Kluwer,1997)has undertaken a critique of American decadence and moral squalor. He argues that three basic cultural phenomena have conjoined to warp and degrade the moral and cultural landscape of the country. Treated together for purposes of critique these phenomena have intertwined: in the national pysche: ......
"This is a remarkable book that embraces the challenge of rethinking communication theory. Much more inclusive than most communication volumes, this guidebook offers a rich diversity of voices, along with a conceptual framework for remaking communication theory. Illuminating, innovative, eloquent-and transforming." -Cheris Kramarae, University ......
