The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media - Softcover

Steven, Peter

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9781859845813: The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859845819 ISBN 13: 9781859845813

Publisher: Verso, 2004

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The power and influence of the mass media grows daily, crucially affecting the way all of us see and understand each other. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media introduces readers to the political economy of the major mediafilm, television, radio, recording, publishing and the Internet. Peter Steven looks at the ever greater concentration of ownership and at the convergence of technologies and media functions. At the same time, he emphasizes the diversity of local media production and media around the world. The media is more than the economics of ownership and the technology of production, he stresses; it is also audiences, in all their annoying and wonderful diversity.

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About the Author:

Peter Steven has worked in and around media for many years, teaching, writing film scripts and making television and video programs. He is the author of several books, including Jump Cut: Hollywood, Politics and Counter-Cinema and Brink of Reality: New Canadian Documentary Film and Video.

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"'The No-Nonsense Guides are the most accessible and enjoyable means for people with hurried lives to find out how the world really works' George Monbiot, environmental campaigner and author of Captive State; 'The No-Nonsense Guides target those topics that a large army of voters cares about, but that politicos evade.' The Independent; 'A splendid new series of pocketable guides to issue politics... rigorously clear.' The Guardian"

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