Transcultural Communication - Hardcover

Hepp, Andreas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470673931 ISBN 13: 9780470673935

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

Synopsis

In Transcultural Communication, Andreas Hepp provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the exciting possibilities and inevitable challenges presented by the proliferation of transcultural communication in our mediatized world.

• Includes examples of mediatization and transcultural communication from a variety of cultural contexts
• Covers an array of different types of media, including mass media and digital media
• Incorporates discussion of transcultural communication in media regulation, media production, media products and platforms, and media appropriation

About this title

About the Author

Andreas Hepp is Professor of Media and Communication Studies in the Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen, Germany. He is the author of Cultures of Mediatization (2013), co-editor, with Friedrich Krotz, of Mediatized Worlds: Culture and Society in a Media Age (2014), and co-editor, with Nick Couldry and Friedrich Krotz, of Media Events in a Global Age (2010).

From the Back Cover

From local events trending internationally on Twitter, to the growing popularity of global news networks like CNN, Aljazeera, and BBC World, we no longer communicate and consume media within one culture but across many. In Transcultural Communication Andreas Hepp provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the exciting possibilities and inevitable challenges presented by the proliferation of transcultural communication in our mediatized world. Citing examples from an array of media forms and cultural contexts, Hepp addresses transcultural communication’s impact on media regulation, media production, media products and platforms, and media appropriation.

Offering an original and refreshing take on global media, Transcultural Communication is ideal reading for students studying the current international media landscape.

From the Inside Flap

From local events trending internationally on Twitter, to the growing popularity of global news networks like CNN, Aljazeera, and BBC World, we no longer communicate and consume media within one culture but across many. In Transcultural Communication Andreas Hepp provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the exciting possibilities and inevitable challenges presented by the proliferation of transcultural communication in our mediatized world. Citing examples from an array of media forms and cultural contexts, Hepp addresses transcultural communication’s impact on media regulation, media production, media products and platforms, and media appropriation.

Offering an original and refreshing take on global media, Transcultural Communication is ideal reading for students studying the current international media landscape.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470673931
• ISBN 13: 9780470673935
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288