Resumen: escrita por dos de los principales historiadores sociales y culturales del momento, esta obra ofrece un brillante panorama de los medios de comunicacion y de los contextos en los que emergieron y se desarrollaron a lo largo del tiempo. Los autores contemplan la historia…
As patterns of media use become more integrated with mobile technologies and multiple screens, a new mode of viewer engagement has emerged in the form of connected viewing, which allows for an array of new relationships between audiences and media texts in the digital space. Thi…
The idea of virtual realities has a long and complex historical trajectory, spanning from Plato's concept of the cave and the simulacrum, to artistic styles such as Trompe L'oeil, and more recently developments in 3D film, television and gaming. However, this book will pay parti…
"In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history,…
Making media: production, practices, and professions
Making Media, uncovers what it means and what it takes to make media (professionally), focusing on the lived experience of media workers within the global media, including rich case studies of the main media industries and professions: television, journalism, social media entert…
From the birth of writing in Mesopotamia to the technologies of today, this work documents the technology of media, a revolutionary tool that allowed rulers to extend their control far and wide, giving rise to the world's first empires. In this book the author chronicles the his…
Una de las revoluciones más significativas que se está dando en los países progresistas de América Latina es la de la comunicación. Mientras los grandes medios se han convertido allí en agentes de intervención política y en algunos casos de desestabilización, los gobiernos de Ve…