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Communication and New Media: From Broadcast to Narrowcast
Communication and New Media presents a new way of looking at media and mass communication. Drawing on the authors' wide professional experience, it traces the history, development and theories of mass communication and the emergence of 'new media', presents theoretical frameworks about the
media, and examines the economic organization of media old and new. it then looks at questions of thics, regulation and governance, and charts the rise of surveillance economy.
media, and examines the economic organization of media old and new. it then looks at questions of thics, regulation and governance, and charts the rise of surveillance economy.
420 pages, Paperback
First published February 15, 2007
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John Harrison
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After hitch-hiking from London to Johannesburg before he was 21, and two further years hitching around every country in South and Central America, John never really shook off the travel bug. He studied Latin American History and Sociology at university before becoming a language teacher in Spain and Portugal. He then worked as a tour guide for Journey Latin America, taking small groups to South America, and bringing most of them back. It was during this time that he started making his own expeditions – especially to the Amazon. A lover of wilderness, he has also canoed in Africa, Europe and North America.
‘Up the Creek: an Amazon Adventure’, originally published in 1986, and was reissued in February 2012, was an account of one of these journeys, and ‘Into the Amazon: an incredible story of survival in the jungle' was published in 2011.
The film ‘John Harrison Explorer’ was made for the ‘Voyager’ series by National Geographic in 1991, about a canoe journey on the Rio Ximim-Ximim in Brazil.
John has written and presented several radio programmes for the BBC, and contributed articles to many magazines and newspapers.
He has entertained audiences with more than 200 lectures over the last 25 years, including four talks at the Royal Geographical Society in London, (where he has also chaired three seminars on tropical forest expedition logistics), plus motivational seminars and visits to schools and Luncheon Clubs. He has also been an on-board speaker for the Cunard, Silversea, Seabourn, Holland America and Fred Olsen cruise lines.
He lives in Bristol in the UK with his wife and two children, where he has his own construction company.
After hitch-hiking from London to Johannesburg before he was 21, and two further years hitching around every country in South and Central America, John never really shook off the travel bug. He studied Latin American History and Sociology at university before becoming a language teacher in Spain and Portugal. He then worked as a tour guide for Journey Latin America, taking small groups to South America, and bringing most of them back. It was during this time that he started making his own expeditions – especially to the Amazon. A lover of wilderness, he has also canoed in Africa, Europe and North America.
‘Up the Creek: an Amazon Adventure’, originally published in 1986, and was reissued in February 2012, was an account of one of these journeys, and ‘Into the Amazon: an incredible story of survival in the jungle' was published in 2011.
The film ‘John Harrison Explorer’ was made for the ‘Voyager’ series by National Geographic in 1991, about a canoe journey on the Rio Ximim-Ximim in Brazil.
John has written and presented several radio programmes for the BBC, and contributed articles to many magazines and newspapers.
He has entertained audiences with more than 200 lectures over the last 25 years, including four talks at the Royal Geographical Society in London, (where he has also chaired three seminars on tropical forest expedition logistics), plus motivational seminars and visits to schools and Luncheon Clubs. He has also been an on-board speaker for the Cunard, Silversea, Seabourn, Holland America and Fred Olsen cruise lines.
He lives in Bristol in the UK with his wife and two children, where he has his own construction company.
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May 7, 2011
The book covers (1) historical development of printing press, moving image, sound recording, internet; and reviews (2) the impact of new media (particularly internet) on Journalism (i.e. emergence of civil journalism), business/economics (discusses surveillance economy) and politics.
Provided examples are often from Australia and might not be as relevant for all international students.
Less academic work (for example, the first chapter discusses meme-s, which I considerer totally not suited for academic discourse, because of its vagueness, superficiality and lack of empirical rigor).
Nevertheless the text can be used as an introduction to the subject with undergraduate students.
Provided examples are often from Australia and might not be as relevant for all international students.
Less academic work (for example, the first chapter discusses meme-s, which I considerer totally not suited for academic discourse, because of its vagueness, superficiality and lack of empirical rigor).
Nevertheless the text can be used as an introduction to the subject with undergraduate students.
February 26, 2014
Yes, it's a textbook.
Slightly dry and a little dated, Communication and New Media is a quick overview of the media industry and social impacts.
Slightly dry and a little dated, Communication and New Media is a quick overview of the media industry and social impacts.
July 21, 2012
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