No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media, 2nd Edition

Peter Steven

Peter Steven explores the full spectrum of communications around the world, from the mega-corporations to the citizen reporters, from the newsrooms of Washington to the film industry of Nigeria. Steven examines the continuously shifting communications landscape, with a focus on how the media is responding to declining advertising revenues, social media sites, portable devices, and Asia’s growing influence and power.

With an emphasis on diverse small-scale media production that exist only through their contact with specific audiences, Steven invites us to question how the media reflects society, and he asks: are we passive recipients? Or do we play a part in constructing our world?

Contents

Foreword by Christine Black
Introduction
Chapter 1 Living with the media–voices across the world
Chapter 2 Global media
Chapter 3 Political economy: the howling, brawling global marketplace
Chapter 4 Technology: rise of the machines
Chapter 5 Art and audience
Chapter 6 Media and society
Chapter 7 For a better media world
Contacts
Bibliography
Index
 

About the Author

Peter Steven teaches media studies at the Sheridan Institute for Technology, and he is the author of The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media. His writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, the New Internationalist, Jump Cut, the Canadian Journal of Film Studies and the Beaver. He holds a PhD in Radio/TV/Film from Northwestern University in Chicago. Peter lives in Toronto, Ontario.