Balnaves, Donald, Hemelryk Donald, July 2001
0851708609 £14.99
The global media atlas is a new easy-to-use comprehensive guide to the global communications revolution.
The book is presented in the form of over 50 colour maps with expert commentary and graphically shows the global diffusion of old and new media. It presents the most up-to-date data and extrapolates trends on a wide variety of topics illustrating the huge disparities across the media world.
Topics include: Print Media and the Digital Age Phones/Mobiles Media Moguls Media Piracy World Music Film Production Websites of the World The World of Ratings
It is the one-stop guide to the real effects of convergence, new media and globalisation.
Mark Balnaves is Programme Director of the Bachelor of Social Science at the University of Queensland. James Donald is Professor of Media and Head of the School of Media and Information at Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. Stephanie Hemelryk is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Melbourne.
This book is available on inspection for use on courses in the UK and Europe. Lecturers can request up to three titles at any one time. To do so, please write to bfi Publishing on headed notepaper at 21 Stephen Street, London W1T 1LN. You will then be given 30 days to examine the book(s) and if you adopt the book on a course with 20 or so students you may keep it free of charge.
"... a very useful guide to the global diffusion of old and new media" Socialist Review
Reviews of other Myriad edition atlases: "Unique and uniquely beautiful ... A single map here tells us more about the world today than a dozen statistical abstracts or scholarly tomes."
Los Angeles Times
"A striking new approach to cartography ... no-one wishing to keep a grip on the reality of the world should be without these books." Herald Tribune
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