[ecrea] new book Mass Communication in Israel

   A new book by Oren Soffer of the Open university of Israel:

   *Mass Communication in Israel*, by Berghahn Books.

   For detials: http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=SofferMass

Mass communication has long been recognized as an important contributor 
to national identity and nation building. This book examines the 
relationship between media and nationalism in Israel, arguing that, in 
comparison to other countries, the Israeli case is unique. It explores 
the roots and evolution of newspapers, journalism, radio, television, 
and the debut of the Internet on both the cultural and the institutional 
levels, and examines milestones in the socio-political development of 
Hebrew and Israeli mass communication. In evaluating the technological 
changes in the media, the book shows how such shifts contribute to 
segmentation and fragmentation in the age of globalization.

*Oren Soffer* is Head of the Department of Sociology, Political Science 
and Communication at the Open University of Israel. He has been recently 
a visiting scholar in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program, and held 
a lecturer position at the University of Manchester. He has published 
extensively in the fields of media theory and history.