The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media (No-nonsense Guides) - Softcover

"'The No-Nonsense Guides are the most accessible and enjoyable means for people with hurried lives to find out how the world really works' George Monbiot, environmental campaigner and author of Captive State; 'The No-Nonsense Guides target those topics that a large army of voters cares about, but that politicos evade.' The Independent; 'A splendid new series of pocketable guides to issue politics... rigorously clear.' The Guardian"

The power and influence of the mass media grows daily, crucially affecting the way all of us see and understand each other. The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media introduces readers to the political economy of the major media - film, television, radio, recording, publishing, and the Internet. Peter Steven looks at the ever-greater concentration of ownership and at the convergence of technologies and media functions. At the same time, he emphasizes the diversity of local media production and media around the world. The media is more than the economics of ownership and the technology of production, he stresses; it is also audiences, in all their annoying and wonderful diversity.