Our most basic relationship with the world is one of technological mediation. Nowadays our available tools are digital, and increasingly what counts in economic, social, and cultural life is what can be digitally stored, distributed, replayed, augmented, and switched. Yet the digital remains...

'Rethinking the Media Audience' is an investigation of whether existing models of media reception and audience ethnography can account for contemporary participation and ubiquitous engagement in media culture

Dieser Band dokumentiert eingehend die Medienpraxis in den Gattungen Fernsehen, Hörfunk, Print und Online; erläutert werden darin wichtige Elemente der Konzeption, des Betriebs, der Vermarktung und der Produktionstechnik dieser Medien. Das Kapitel Mediengeschichte bringt elementare Daten zur...

"Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students...