[Commlist] New book: Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes

NEW PUBLICATION

*Media Compass. A Companion to International Media Landscapes. Wiley, 2024.*
*Edited by Aljosha Karim Schapals (QUT Brisbane) and Christian Pentzold 
(Leipzig University)*

Short Summary: In /Media Compass: A Companion to International Media 
Landscapes,/ an international team of prominent scholars examines both 
long-term media systems and fluctuating trends in media usage around the 
world. Integrating country-specific summaries and cross-cutting studies 
of geopolitical regions, this interdisciplinary reference work describes 
key elements in the political, social, demographic, cultural, and 
economic conditions of media infrastructures and public communication.

In case you are in Ljubljana for this year’s ECREA meeting, there will 
be book flyers and info about the book in the conference app.

Long summary: Enabling the mapping of media landscapes 
internationally,/Media Compass/contains up-to-date empirical surveys of 
individual countries and regions, as well as cross-country comparisons 
of particular areas of public communication. 45 entries, each guiding 
readers from a general summary to a more in-depth discussion of a 
country’s specific media landscape, address formative conditions and 
circumstances, historical background and development, current issues and 
challenges, and more.Designed to facilitate quick lookup of individual 
entries, as well as comparative readings of a country’s position in the 
wider media environment,/Media Compass: A Companion to International 
Media Landscapes/ is an invaluable addition to libraries and 
institutions of higher education, and a must-read volume for students, 
educators, scholars, and practitioners working in communication and 
media studies, journalism, and media production.

More about the book, sample chapters and the Table of Content can be 
accessed from here: 
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Media+Compass%3A+A+Companion+to+International+Media+Landscapes-p-9781394196258 


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