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Overview
Why is it impossible to be famous on the internet?
Why can't internet advertising compete with that on broadcast television?
Why have forecasts about the demise of mass media not eventuated?
In this book, David Holmes offers a new introduction to communication theory, but one that is relevant to today.
Most communication and media texts invariably address traditional concerns of content, representation, semiotics and ideology. This book integrates new media into media theory and asks us to take another look at our media environment.
Communication Theory:
- Offers a clear and concise summary of media studies, present and future
- Surveys the interrelationships between broadcast and network media
- Critiques a popular notion that a 'second media age' will eclipse mass media
- Looks at how media extend, replace and reproduce aspects of social life
This book offers a sophisticated, but lucid and compelling analysis of our contemporary media environment, which will be welcomed by all students of media and communication.
Synopsis
In an interdisciplinary communication theory study, Holmes (Monash U., Australia) sets out the implications of new communications technologies for media studies and the sociology of communications. He challenges the historical proposition that a second media age, exemplified by the Internet, has overtaken or converged with an older age of broadcast media, but does recognize the value of distinguishing between the two architectures—broadcast, and interactive networks—when analyzing media. Indeed the distinction between medium and content, between media and messages, is a recurrent theme. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR