No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media, 2nd Edition
Second edition
Peter Steven explores the full spectrum of communications around the world, from the mega-corporations to the citizen reporters, from the newsrooms of Washington to the film industry of Nigeria. Steven examines the continuously shifting communications landscape, with a focus on how the media is responding to declining advertising revenues, social media sites, portable devices, and Asia’s growing influence and power.
With an emphasis on diverse small-scale media production that exist only through their contact with specific audiences, Steven invites us to question how the media reflects society, and he asks: are we passive recipients? Or do we play a part in constructing our world?
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Praise
[This] range of wonderful stories makes a significant contribution, by enlightening readers about the many and varying ways in which the media is, and can be, used to satisfy our needs.
– Christine Black, traditional custodian of Aboriginal Law from the Kombumerri/Mununjahlai clans and research fellow, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Contents
| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| Chapter 1 | Living With the Media - Voices Across the World |
| Chapter 2 | Global Media |
| Chapter 3 | Political Economy: The Howling, Brawling Global Marketplace |
| Chapter 4 | Technology: Rise of the Machines |
| Chapter 5 | Art and Audience |
| Chapter 6 | Media and Society |
| Chapter 7 | For a Better Media World |
| Contacts | |
| Bibliography | |
| Index |
