[ecrea] Convergence and Fragmentation: Media Technology and the Information Society

>Convergence and Fragmentation: Media Technology and the Information Society
>Edited by Peter Ludes
>£19.95, $40, ISBN 9781841501826, published Jan 2008, paperback, 256pp
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>On the cusp of the latest media innovations in 
>Europe, the newest addition to the Changing 
>Media, Changing Europe series Convergence and 
>Fragmentation brings together specialists from 
>the humanities and social sciences to analyze 
>the technological, economic and political trends 
>sweeping Europe. The volume reports on European 
>information and communication technologies that 
>are simultaneously converging and fragmenting. 
>This contradictory idea suggests that media 
>trends must be analysed and critiqued with this 
>development in mind in order to ascertain 
>whether we are really moving into a new European 
>information society. Ludes book is a unique 
>collection of articles concerned with 
>identifying and interpreting the changes in 
>contemporary media in order to understand 
>cultural changes in Europe as a continent.
>
>Accessible and interactive chapters boast a 
>collation of evidence and socio-cultural models 
>from over 15 European countries. 
>Multi-disciplinary evidence for technological, 
>economical, sociological, political and cultural 
>trends is investigated alongside explanatory 
>models, resulting in a thorough analysis of many 
>different branches of contemporary European 
>media. Convergence and Fragmentation is a 
>pioneering study that assesses that rapidly 
>changing media environment with authority.
>
>Acknowledgements
>Convergence and Fragmentation greatly enhances 
>our understanding of the wide range of emerging 
>media governances in Europe from the perspective 
>of cultural diversity and public 
>responsibility.  Dr.LUO Qing, Communication 
>University of China, Executive organizer of Asia 
>Communication & Media Forum, Visiting scholar at 
>Lugano University and Florence University
>
>Convergence and fragmentation are the two 
>key forces driving the dynamics of the 
>traditional and new media around the world. This 
>book provides a scholarly yet eminently readable 
>analysis of how these apparently contradictory 
>forces are challenging public policy, 
>citizenship, cultural identities and 
>globalisation in the context of a rapidly 
>changing European media scenario.  Keval J. 
>Kumar, Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty, International 
>School of Business and Media, Pune, India
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>How to explain the interdependencies of the 
>technological innovations, market developments, 
>economic, political and cultural networks 
>connecting the diverse information societies in 
>Europe? The concepts and models offered in this 
>excellently edited volume open up a 
>transdisciplinary debate on the multi-causal 
>processes of decay and emergence of European 
>Unity in Diversity in the context of globalizing 
>Europe.  Stefan Kramer, Media Studies, University of Constance, Germany
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>We look forward to hearing from you!
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