Examines the development of mass communication and technology throughout each decade of the twentieth century.
The volume analyzes the socio-economic contexts in which mass media originated; the institutional forms taken by evolving media; the relationships between media institutions and the state; and the interrelationships between different media.
The contributors to this volume explore the business strategies being implemented by some media industries such as newspapers and the recording industry who are struggling to not only remain competitive and profitable, but also to survive.
In Feed-Forward, Mark B. N. Hansen shows just how outmoded that way of thinking is: media is no longer separate from us but has become an inescapable part of our very experience of the world.
Examines the ways in which press, cinema, radio and television have wielded power in the course of this century.
Points of contact with an arts perspective include a reinterpretation of the artist Nam June Paik and an introduction to the work of Jake and Dinos Chapman. The essay ends with two appeals.
The quote appears in Joseph A. Reaves, “Press Runs Ended at Tribune Tower,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 19, 1982, 3; and Wendt, Chicago Tribune, 488. 3. Megan McKinney, The Magnificent Medills: America's Royal Family of Journalism during a ...
This volume explores and clarifies the complex intersection of race and media in the contemporary United States.
Analyses of late nineteenth century and early twentieth century media and cultural processes, including advertising, film, sound recording, magazines, newspapers, and the rise of think tanks.
81. These problems have been collected under the category of “critical invention.” For an excellent examination of the problem see Nothstine, Blair, and Copeland, Critical Questions. 82. Jameson, Marxism and Form, 328–29.
This is the first study of mass media in Germany from a social and cultural-historical perspective.