Defining Media Studies: Reflections on the Future of the Field - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0195087887 ISBN 13 : 9780195087888

Editeur : Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1994

Synopsis

The last two issues of the 1993 Journal of Communication featured a discipline-wide self-analysis, collecting over fifty essays by giants in the field as well as many up-and-coming scholars. Now available in a single volume for courses in communications theory and practice, this collective reconnaissance of scholarship and research in the field makes a fundamental contribution to understanding the very essence of media studies. Representing a wide range of intellectual perspectives, Defining Media Studies incorporates the growing presence and significance of such technological media as the computer Net, virtual reality, and fiber optic telecommunication. Maintaining that such leaps in communication now help to define the parameters of media reality, the editors argue that these phenomena must draw the scholarly attention of media studies. The resulting volume of essays emphasizes this shift in the field, presenting insight into interfaces, telecommunications, the Information Society, media economics, "imagined communities", and many other issues, both old and new, familiar and not so familiar.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Communication studies has never been recognized fully by universities as an academic discipline, but fascinating scholarship continues unabated from people working in the field--with sometimes trenchant results. Defining Media Studies is a collection of essays culled from two special issues of the Journal of Communication, the leading journal in the field, and represents a collective reconnaissance of what is currently happening in this vigorous and vibrant new area.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195087887
• ISBN 13: 9780195087888
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Éditeur: Levy Mark R.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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