The development of digital media presents a unique opportunity to reconsider what communication is, and what individuals, groups, and societies might hope to accomplish through new as well as old media. At a time when digital media still provoke both utopian and dystopian views of their likely consequences, Klaus Bruhn Jensen places these ‘new’ media in a comparative perspective together with ‘old’ mass media and face-to-face communication, restating the two classic questions of media studies: what do media do to people, and what do people do with media?
Media Convergence makes a distinction between three general types of media: the human body enabling communication in the flesh; the technically reproduced means of mass communication; and the digital technologies facilitating interaction one-to-one, one-to-many, as well as many-to-many.
Features include:
- case studies, including mobile phones in everyday life, the Muhammad cartoons controversy and climate change as a global challenge for human communication and political action
- diagrams, figures, and tables summarizing key concepts beyond standard ‘models of communication’
- systematic cross-referencing. Major terms are highlighted and cross-referenced throughout, with key concepts defined in margin notes.
- ISBN10 0415482038
- ISBN13 9780415482035
- Publish Date 14 January 2010 (first published 12 January 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 April 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 198
- Language English