Media Convergence

Media Convergence

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Summary

This book focuses on how everyday media such as Facebook, iTunes and Google can be understood in new ways for the 21st century through ideas of convergence. Key chapters explore the development of the internet, the rise of social media and the new opportunities for audiences to create, collaborate upon and share their own media.

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Media Convergence by Graham Meikle

This book focuses on how everyday media such as Facebook, iTunes and Google can be understood in new ways for the 21st century through ideas of convergence. Key chapters explore the development of the internet, the rise of social media and the new opportunities for audiences to create, collaborate upon and share their own media.
GRAHAM MEIKLE is Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media & Culture at the University of Stirling, UK. He is the author of Interpreting News (2008) and Future Active: Media activism and the Internet (2003) and the co-editor of News Online: Transformations & Continuities (2010). SHERMAN YOUNG is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies and the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book (2007).
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ISBN 13 9780230228948
ISBN 10 0230228941
Title Media Convergence
Author Graham Meikle
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2011-12-13
Number of pages 248
Prizes Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2012
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