Converging Media, Diverging Politics: A Political Economy of News Media in the United States and Canada
by:
David Skinner (author)
What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and Canada investigate this question, exploring the effects of media concentration in democratic systems. Specifically, the scholars collected here...
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What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and Canada investigate this question, exploring the effects of media concentration in democratic systems. Specifically, the scholars collected here consider, from a range of vantage points, how corporate and technological convergence in the news industry in the United States and Canada impacts journalism's expressed role as a medium of democratic communication.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780739113066 (0739113062)
Publish date: September 28th 2005
Publisher: Lexington Books
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
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