Media Convergence - 9781032058740

Name: Media Convergence - 9781032058740
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Media ConvergenceThe Three Degrees of Network, Mass, and Interpersonal Communication\nAuthor(s): Klaus Bruhn Jensen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032058740, 978-1032058740\nSynopsis\nThis second edition furthers conversations about the ongoing society-wide and worldwide digitalization of human communication.\n\nReviewing the long lines in the history of media and communication from writing via printing and broadcasting to computing the book lays out three general types of media: the human body enabling face-to-face communication here and now; the technically reproduced means of mass communication across space and time; and the digital technologies integrating one-to-one, one-to-many, as well as many-to-many interactions. All these communicative practices coexist in contemporary media environments. Across cultures, genders, and age groups, people go on communicating in the flesh, via wires, and over the air, .