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Compressed overview of the world's media, August 5, 2010
You won't learn about U.S. cable news wars in " The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media (No-Nonsense Guides)," but you will discover a whole other world out there made up of Chinese dating shows, cheap battery-powered computers, a Marxist at "The Hindu," the thinking behind Muzak, radio shock jocks and an awful lot more.
Along with the problems the Western media faces is the decline of ad revenue and the rise of social media. But it's the increasing size and power of the media from the East that most challenges the West's dominance, including Al-Jazeera.
What author Peter Steven offers is a very light dash through the changing media world, challenging readers to see beyond what they're used to, to understand the pure power of a Rupert Murdoch or a Silvio Berlusconi and others who have taken control of several aspects of the creation and delivery of content. But more, Steven wants us to understand the world of the media as a kind of Pandora's Box to be opened and understood.
He tells what he sees through a series of stories that seem initially unrelated but all serve to provide a taste of what's going in the world, admittedly not a comprehensive one but more of a prod to wake us up to the rest of the globe.
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Compressed overview of the world's media, August 5, 2010
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You won't learn about U.S. cable news wars in "The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media," but you will discover a whole other world out there made up of Chinese dating shows, cheap battery-powered computers, a Marxist at "The Hindu," the thinking behind Muzak, radio shock jocks and an awful lot more.
Along with the problems the Western media faces is the decline of ad revenue and the rise of social media. But it's the increasing size and power of the media from the East that most challenges the West's dominance, including Al-Jazeera.
What author Peter Steven offers is a very light dash through the changing media world, challenging readers to see beyond what they're used to, to understand the pure power of a Rupert Murdoch or a Silvio Berlusconi and others who have taken control of several aspects of the creation and delivery of content. But more, Steven wants us to understand the world of the media as a kind of Pandora's Box to be opened and understood.
He tells what he sees through a series of stories that seem initially unrelated but all serve to provide a taste of what's going in the world, admittedly not a comprehensive one but more of a prod to wake us up to the rest of the globe.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Compressed overview of the world's media, August 5, 2010
A Kid's Review
You won't learn about U.S. cable news wars in "The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media," but you will discover a whole other world out there made up of Chinese dating shows, cheap battery-powered computers, a Marxist at "The Hindu," the thinking behind Muzak, radio shock jocks and an awful lot more.
Along with the problems the Western media faces is the decline of ad revenue and the rise of social media. But it's the increasing size and power of the media from the East that most challenges the West's dominance, including Al-Jazeera.
What author Peter Steven offers is a very light dash through the changing media world, challenging readers to see beyond what they're used to, to understand the pure power of a Rupert Murdoch or a Silvio Berlusconi and others who have taken control of several aspects of the creation and delivery of content. But more, Steven wants us to understand the world of the media as a kind of Pandora's Box to be opened and understood.
He tells what he sees through a series of stories that seem initially unrelated but all serve to provide a taste of what's going in the world, admittedly not a comprehensive one but more of a prod to wake us up to the rest of the globe.
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