The World News Prism: Digital, Social and Interactive, 9th Edition - Softcover

Hachten, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118809041 ISBN 13: 9781118809044

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

Synopsis

Now available in a fully revised and updated ninth edition, World News Prism provides in-depth analysis of the changing role of transnational news media in the 21st-century.

• Includes three new chapters on Russia, Brazil, and India and a revised chapter on the Middle East written by regional media experts
• Features comprehensive coverage of the growing impact of social media on how news is being reported and received
• Charts the media revolutions occurring throughout the world and examines their effects both locally and globally
• Surveys the latest developments in new media and forecasts future developments

About this title

From the Back Cover:

An established and well-respected resource for students and scholars of global journalism for more than a decade, The World News Prism is now available in a fully-revised and updated ninth edition. Featuring three all new chapters on Brazil, Russia, and India and a revised chapter on the Middle East written by regional media experts, this new edition charts media revolutions occurring throughout the world and examines their effects both locally and globally. The new edition has also been updated to include comprehensive coverage of the growing impact of social media on how news is being reported and received.

From tweets that spark uprisings, to state-mandated censorship, The World News Prism: Digital, Social and Interactive provides the most up-to-date and inclusive analysis of transnational news media in the 21st century.

About the Author:

William A. Hachten is Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught for 30 years. His publications include: New Media for a New China (Wiley, 2010 with J. Scotton), The Troubles of Journalism (2005, 3rd edition), The Growth of Media in the Third World (1993), and The Press and Apartheid (1984, with C.A. Giffard).

James F. Scotton is Associate Professor of Journalism at Marquette University. He has taught in Lebanon, China, Egypt, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria, and has worked as a reporter, editorial writer, and editor with the Associated Press and with newspapers in several states and in China. He is co-author, with William Hachten, of New Media for a New China (Wiley, 2010).

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1118809041
• ISBN 13: 9781118809044
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284