Media in the Swirl

Author: Ravi K. Dhar

Brand: Pentagon Press

Edition: Edition

Binding: hardcover

Number Of Pages: 300

Release Date: 16-08-2012

Details: Product Description

EAN: 9788182746534

Package Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches

Languages: English

At no other point in human history has technology played so vital and all pervasive a role in every day private and public life as now. Though the limitations imposed by nature were overcome right from the time when the project of modernity got introduced, yet the birth of new technologies have busted even the limits of industrial’ technologies. The industrial age technologies suffered from the basic defect of ‘producer-bias’. Consequently, they were cast in the top-down mould with little regard for individual customer preferences. The new information and communication technologies broke the reliance on mass-based production systems and resurrected the model of individualized production. This marked a paradigm shift in the production, distribution and consumption patterns of products being delivered by the ’smart' technologies. In the world of media, it meant the end of mass media monopolization of the global and local public spheres. The alternative voices became more strident and eye-catching with the arrival of the new media. A large number of media users migrated from the older mass mediated public sphere to the cyberspace, the new public sphere created by the new media. This migration was accompanied by the drift of the advertisers and the marketers to the new public sphere, granting it the legitimacy that it required in the attention eonomy of the new millennium. Regulatory regimes followed which raised their own controversies.


Review


"An intersting attempt to assess the changes which have impacted both media and society in fundamental ways in a number of local, national and media and global communities. It invites fascinating observations on media in transition, medi and the knowledge society, media and development, media and the negotiation of identity and the quest for truth. " Jan Servaes UNESCO chair of communication for sustainable social changes 9CSSC, University of Massachusetts, USA


About the Author


Dr. Ravi K Dhar earned his doctoral degree in English at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, where he was also teaching as a Lecturer in English. Dr Pooja Rana is an English Honours from the prestigious St Bede’s College, Shimla and a post graduate and doctorate in mass communication from Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, India. She has recently joined the leading Amity School of Communication, Amity University, Haryana.