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The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication

William L Benoit author Andrew C Billings author Lee B Becker editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc

Published:22nd Jun '20

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Mass communication theories were largely built when we had mass media audiences. The number of television, print, film or other forms of media audiences were largely finite, concentrating people on many of the same core content offerings, whether that be the nightly news or a popular television show. What happens when those audiences splinter? The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication surveys the aftermath of exactly that, noting that very few modern media products have audiences above 1–2% of the population at any one time. Advancing a new media balkanization theory, Benoit and Billings neither lament nor embrace the new media landscape, opting instead to pinpoint how we must consider mass communication theories and applications in an era of ubiquitous choice.

ISBN: 9781433164262

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 341g

172 pages

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