Comparative Media History: An Introduction: 1789 to the Present - Softcover

Chapman, Jane L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745632432 ISBN 13: 9780745632438

Verlag: Polity Press, 2005

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Comparative Media Historyis a unique thematic textbook which introduces students to the key ideas underpinning media development. It is an essential first step to a better understanding of both the media industry today and the way in which it evolved over time. 

The textbook compares developments and influences from a broad perspective, highlighting and contrasting different countries, industries and periods of history in order to encourage an understanding of cause and effect. In a style which is clear, accessible and provocative, Jane Chapman argues that most of the roots of today’s media – even the globalizing impulse – lie in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century. The book emphasizes continuity and certain decisive factors such as the social use of technology, the character of the institutions in which it is applied and the political approach of the specific countries involved. 
 
The comparative element to this book, across both countries and industries, will enable students to reflect on key issues in media studies, including those of diversity, form, method and choice, both past and present. It will become an essential text for any student of the media and its history. 
 

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Jane Chapman is Principal Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Lincoln.

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Comparative Media History is a unique thematic textbook which introduces students to the key ideas underpinning media development. It is an essential first step to a better understanding of both the media industry today and the way in which it evolved over time.

The textbook compares developments and influences from a broad perspective, highlighting and contrasting different countries, industries and periods of history in order to encourage an understanding of cause and effect. In a style which is clear, accessible and provocative, Jane Chapman argues that most of the roots of today's media - even the globalizing impulse - lie in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The book emphasises continuity and certain decisive factors such as the social use of technology, the character of the institutions in which it is applied and the political approach of the specific countries involved.

The comparative element to this book, both across countries and industries, will enable students to reflect on key issues in media studies, including those of diversity, form, method and choice, both past and present. It will become an essential text for any student of the media and its history.

For more information about the book and the author, please see www.janechapman.co.uk

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Polity Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0745632432
• ISBN 13: 9780745632438
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar