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The future of mass media may appear unpredictable and too complex to fathom, but Mass Media in 2025 takes a scholarly, theoretical approach to identifying trends and explaining their possibilities.

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Hoggart makes an impassioned argument for Public Service Broadcasting in its truest form, and sees the Public Service ideal as coming increasingly under attack from today's BBC broadcasters. People who seem to believe that the overwhelming function of television today is to entertain.

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In this examination of Greek press, radio and television, authors Zaharopoulos and Paraschos describe media which have been tremendously politicized, partisan, and dominated by foreign programming.

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"Offers a way to re-evaluate deeply evocative futures in which humans and intelligent systems increasingly engage in symbiotically connected experiences via continuous flows of data and information exchanges"--

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"Offers a way to re-evaluate deeply evocative futures in which humans and intelligent systems increasingly engage in symbiotically connected experiences via continuous flows of data and information exchanges"--

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Focusing on McLuhan's work, this title traces the systematic development of his thought. It intends to clarify McLuhan's thinking, to consolidate it in a fashion which prevents misreadings, and to open the way to advancing his own program: ensuring that the world does not sleepwalk into the twenty-first century with nineteenth-century perceptions.

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Marshall McLuhan was dubbed a media guru when he came to prominence in the 1960s. The Woodstock generation found him cool; their parents found him perplexing. This guide offers a close reading of all of his work with a focus on tracing the systematic development of his thought.

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They use their unique skills to examine three interwoven themes: the origin and meaning of American attitudes toward television, the relationship between high art and television's popular art, and the relationship between particular kinds of programs and the audience's sensibilities.

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A new textual studies and archival approach to the investigation of works of new media and electronic literature that applies techniques of computer forensics to conduct media-specific readings of William Gibson's electronic poem Agrippa, Michael Joyce's Afternoon, and the interactive game Mystery House.

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"This fully updated second edition is an innovative introductory textbook that offers a new way of thinking about media that challenges conventional accounts of what media do to people, focusing instead on what people do with media in the course of everyday life"--

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This volume is concerned with the legal structure, the economic concentration and the political dynamics of the West German media in a period of rapid technological change. Adopting a "policy-studies" perspective, the author analyzes the shaping of "communication policies".

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A fascinating survey that shows how America's media and politics have influenced each other over the last 200 years.

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Fought when radio was first introduced, the Press-Radio war was an attempt on the part of print journalists to block the emergence of radio news. For nearly a decade, the newspapers of America fought to keep broadcast journalism off the air, exerting various forms of economic, regulatory, and legal pressure against new competitors.

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"A critical approach to the cultural function of news media, arguing that news is an institution that performs a function of social control under the guise of the Fourth Estate"--

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The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. Drawing on examples from TV, radio and the press, the author focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change.