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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808719803321

Autore

Staiger Janet

Titolo

Convergence, media, history [[electronic resource] /] / Janet Staiger and Sabine Hake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2009

ISBN

1-135-84275-2

1-282-17061-9

9786612170614

0-203-88343-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HakeSabine <1956->

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. New methods -- pt. II. New subjects -- pt. III. New Approaches -- pt. IV. Research issues.

Sommario/riassunto

Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history. Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the historical development of an individual medium such as film or television. Instead, now that various media from blockbuster films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via convergence, scholars must find new ways to write media history across multiple media formats. This collection of eighteen new essays by leading media historians and scholars examines the issues today in writing media history and