Converging Media, Diverging Politics
A Political Economy of News Media in the United States and Canada
What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and Canada investigate this question, exploring the effects of media concentration in democratic systems. Specifically, the scholars collected here consider, from a range of vantage points, how corporate and technological convergence in the news industry in the United States and Canada impacts journalism's expressed role as a medium of democratic communication. More generally, and by necessity, Converging Media, Diverging Politics speaks to larger questions about the role that the production and circ…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Gasher, Michael (Hrsg.) / Skinner, David (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7391-1306-6
- EAN: 9780739113066
- Produktnummer: 2232167
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 541 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 541
Über den Autor
David Skinner is assistant professor in the Communication Studies Program at York University, Toronto. James R. Compton is assistant professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Mike Gasher is associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Journalism at Concordia University, Montreal.
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