Understanding Media Industries

Name: Understanding Media Industries
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ISBN: 9780195397673

ISBN-10: 0195397673

ISBN-13: 9780195397673

Edition: 2011

Authors: Timothy Havens, Amanda Lotz

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This is an introduction to the media industries, a topic that sometimes has its own course but is also incorporated into courses on media criticism, media literacy, and even a basic mass media course where the instructor wishes to teach from topical paperbacks as opposed to a big textbook. The book examines the influence of media industry organization and practices on society; at the same time, it offers students pursuing both scholarly and professional careers related to the media industries a comprehensive overview of how the industries work, why they work as they do, and what the broader theoretical and practical implications of the media industries are. Questions such as "why is media…

Book details

List price: $65.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.20" wide x 6.10" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



Key Concepts in Media Industry Studies



Media Industry Mandates



Technological Conditions of the Media Industries



Regulation of the Media Industries



Economic Conditions in Media Production



Creative Practices and Roles Involved in Making Media



Distribution and Exhibition Practices



Auxiliary Practices



The Growth of the Symbolic Economy



Digitization



Globalization


Glossary


Index