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Zusatztext In this compact and smart volume, Klaus Bruhn Jensen has done two essential things: shown us how rich the pragmatist tradition is for understanding communication and torn down the Berlin wall between interpersonal and mass communication. Media Convergence provides us with a trusty Virgil for navigating the digital jungle! - John D. Peters, The University of Iowa, USA Informationen zum Autor Klaus Bruhn Jensen is Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Recent publications include A Handbook of Media and Communication Research (2002) and International Encyclopedia of Communication (12 vols, 2008), for which he served as Area Editor of Communication Theory and Philosophy. Current research interests include internet studies, mobile media, and communication theory. Klappentext Makes a distinction between three general types of media - the human body enabling communication in the flesh; the technically reproduced means of mass communication; and! the digital technologies facilitating interaction one-to-one! one-to-many! as well as many-to-many. Zusammenfassung Makes a distinction between three general types of media - the human body enabling communication in the flesh; the technically reproduced means of mass communication; and, the digital technologies facilitating interaction one-to-one, one-to-many, as well as many-to-many. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations. Preface. Part One – A Critique of Communication 1. Introduction: Communication – The Very Idea 2. Erro, Ergo Sum – Communication and Pragmatism in the History of Ideas 3. Differences that Make a Difference – The Art and Science of Media and Communication Research Part Two – Media of Three Degrees 4. Media Matters – The Material Conditions of Communication 5. Media Meanings – The Discourses, Genres, and Modalities of Communication 6. Media Institutions – Between Agency and Structure Part Three – The Double Hermeneutics of Media and Communication Research 7. Media of Science – Doing Communication Research 8. The Future of Communication – Pragmatism between Modernism and Postmodernism. References. Index ...
