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Media Convergence: The Three Degrees of Network, Mass, and Interpersonal Communication book cover

2nd Edition

Media Convergence The Three Degrees of Network, Mass, and Interpersonal Communication

By Klaus Bruhn Jensen Copyright 2022
226 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This second edition furthers conversations about the ongoing society-wide and worldwide digitalization of human communication. Reviewing 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... Read more

PART I – A CRITIQUE OF COMMUNICATION

1 Communication – the very idea

2 Erro, ergo sum – communication and pragmatism in the history of ideas

3 Differences that make a difference – the art and science of media and communication research

PART II – MEDIA OF THREE DEGREES

4 Media matters – the material conditions of communication

5 Media meanings – the discourses, genres, and modalities of communication

6 Media institutions – between agency and structure

PART III – THE DOUBLE HERMENEUTICS OF MEDIA AND

COMMUNICATION RESEARCH

7 Media of science – doing communication research

8 Practicing communication – human rights, capabilities, and functionings

Biography

Klaus Bruhn Jensen is Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Recent publications include A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies, 3rd ed. (2021) and A Theory of Communication and Justice (2021). Current research centers on communication theory, media and communication history, and cross-cultural studies of communication systems.

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