Media today mass communication in a converging world
Media Today : Mass Communication in a Converging World.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Brief Contents -- Detailed Contents -- Preface -- How to Use This Book -- Acknowledgments -- To the Student -- Part I The Nature and Business of Media -- 1 Understanding Mass Media, Convergence, and the Importance of Media Literacy -- Introducing Media Convergence -- Introducing Mass Communication -- The Elements of Communication -- Mass Communication Defined -- Mass Media and Convergence -- Mass Media, Culture, and Society -- How Do We Use the Mass Media in Our Daily Lives? -- How Do the Mass Media Influence Culture?
-- The Public Relations Industry and Media -- Production in the Public Relations Industry -- Distribution in the Public Relations Industry -- Exhibition in the Public Relations Industry -- The Rise of Marketing Communications -- Branded Entertainment -- Direct Marketing -- Relationship Marketing -- Advertising, Public Relations, and Convergence -- Media Literacy Issues Related to Advertising and PR -- Advertising and Commercialism -- Truth and Hidden Influence in Public Relations.
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Media Today
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Mass Communication in a Converging World
"Turow's Media Today: Mass Communication in a Converging World, now in its fifth edition, chooses [a] cutting-edge option. This is a student-friendly publication, offering aids such as definitions of key terms, colourful infographics, case studies and end-of-chapter review questions. There's a companion website, too, and a password-protected website for instructors."--Philip Kemp, Times Higher Education
Media Today uses convergence as a lens that puts students at the center of the profound changes in the 21st century media world. Through the convergence lens they learn to think critically about the role of media today and what these changes mean for their lives presently and in the future. The book's media systems approach helps students to look carefully at how media is created, distributed, and exhibited in the new world that the digital revolution has created. In this way, Media Today goes beyond the traditional mass communication textbook's focus on consuming media, to give students an insider's perspective on how media businesses operate. How exactly does Google profit from web searches? What will a magazine lo
Media Today : Mass Communication In A Converging World -7/E
As the subtitle suggests, this seventh edition of Media Today uses conver- gence as a lens that puts the reader at the center of the profound changes in the 21st-century media world. Through the convergence lens, readers learn to think critically about the role of media today and about what these changes mean for their lives presently and in the future. The book’s media systems approach helps readers look carefully at how media are created, distributed, and exhibited in the new world that the digital revolution has created. In this way, Media Today goes beyond the traditional mass communication textbook’s focus on consuming media to give students an insider’s perspective on how media businesses operate. How exactly does Google profit from web searches? What will the magazine look like in five years?
Joseph Turow—who has been teaching Intro to media for well over a decade— demonstrates the many ways that media convergence and the pervasiveness of the internet have blurred distinctions between and among various media. After looking at the essential history of each media industry, Turow examines the current forces shapin
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Media today : mass communication in a converging world
Joseph Turow Published in
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Title:
Media today : mass communication in a converging world / by Joseph Turow.
ISBN:
9780415536424
9780415536431
Author:
Turow, Joseph viaf
(Author)
Edition:
5th edition.
Publisher:
New York : Routledge, 2014.
Description:
Xxi, 438 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Note:
Previous ed.: 2011.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dewey:
302.23 23
Subject:
Mass media.
Permalink:
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MLA:
Turow, Joseph.
Media Today : Mass Communication In a Converging World.
5th edition. New York: Routledge, 2014.
APA:
Turow, J. (2014).
Media today : mass communication in a converging world.
5th edition. New York: Routledge.
Chicago:
Turow, Joseph
Media Today: Mass Communication In a Converging World.
5th edition. New York: Routledge, 2014.
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