Media History

This book puts forward the concept of "communications from below" in contrast to the "globalization from above" that characterizes many new developments in international organization and media practices. Drew’s perspective focuses on the local, the national, and the global desire for communications,..

From dime novels to comic books to digital media, Cassidy illustrates the ways children have used "old media" when they were first introduced as "new media." Exploring the history of American children and media, this text presents a portrait of the way in which children and adults adapt to a constan..

Explorations in Communication and History addresses the link between what we know and how we know it by tracking the intersection of communication and history. Asking how each discipline has enhanced and hindered our understanding of the other, the book considers what happens to what we know when di..

Explorations in Communication and History addresses the link between what we know and how we know it by tracking the intersection of communication and history. Asking how each discipline has enhanced and hindered our understanding of the other, the book considers what happens to what we know when di..

Through studies of the storyworlds constructed for The Wizard of Oz, Tarzan, and Superman, the book reveals how new developments in advertising, licensing, and governmental policy across the twentieth century enabled historical systems of transmedia storytelling to emerge...

From the 1930s onwards, transnational broadcasting – that is, broadcasting across national borders – became a major element in the conduct of Britain’s diplomacy, and the BBC was employed by the government to further its diplomatic, strategic, and economic interests in times of rising international ..

This collection of research essays from the major publications in the electronic media discipline illustrates the growth and development of electronic media research from its earliest appearance to current day. Representing a wide variety of topics and scholarship, the articles included here demonst..

This collection of research essays from the major publications in the electronic media discipline illustrates the growth and development of electronic media research from its earliest appearance to current day. Representing a wide variety of topics and scholarship, the articles included here demonst..

Sound Media considers how music recording, radio broadcasting and muzak influence people's daily lives and introduces the many and varied creative techniques that have developed in music and journalism throughout the 20th century. Lars Nyre starts with the contemporary cultures of sound media, and w..

This book documents and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. He argues that the naturalization of self-service telephony shaped consumers’ attitudes and expectations about digital technology...

This book documents and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. He argues that the naturalization of self-service telephony shaped consumers’ attitudes and expectations about digital technology...

This Companion explores the historical development of various media formats and traditions, reflecting how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The book is comprised of three thematic chapters reflecting broadly on historiography, providing historical context f..