Digital Difference
Subtitle: Media Technology and the Theory of Communication Effects
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780674504936
Subjects: Information society; Information networks; Technology and civilization; Information technology; Mass media, social aspects; Mass media, political aspects
Description: "Although the shift from one-way to two-way mass communication - from broadcasting to social networking - represents a revolutionary restructuring, it does not necessarily mean the public is better informed, more culturally or politically polarized, or more engaged in public life. Practices, institutions, and norms are in mid-transition and potentially subject to our individual and collective choice. The book is designed to connect the best of recent scholarship with these pressing policy questions"--Provided by publisher.