Convergence Media History
by Janet Staiger /
2009 / English / PDF
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Convergence Media History
Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital
convergence has radically changed the field of media history.
Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the
historical development of an individual medium such as film or
television. Instead, now that various media from blockbuster
films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via
convergence, scholars must find new ways to write media history
across multiple media formats. This collection of eighteen
new essays by leading media historians and scholars examines the
issues today in writing media history and histories. Each essay
addresses a single medium—including film, television,
advertising, sound recording, new media, and more—and connects
that specific medium’s history to larger issues for the field in
writing multi-media or convergent histories. Among the volume’s
topics are new media technologies and their impact on traditional
approaches to media history; alternative accounts of film
production and exhibition, with a special emphasis on film across
multiple media platforms; the changing relationships between
audiences, fans, and consumers within media culture; and the
globalization of our media culture.
explores the ways that digital
convergence has radically changed the field of media history.
Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the
historical development of an individual medium such as film or
television. Instead, now that various media from blockbuster
films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via
convergence, scholars must find new ways to write media history
across multiple media formats. This collection of eighteen
new essays by leading media historians and scholars examines the
issues today in writing media history and histories. Each essay
addresses a single medium—including film, television,
advertising, sound recording, new media, and more—and connects
that specific medium’s history to larger issues for the field in
writing multi-media or convergent histories. Among the volume’s
topics are new media technologies and their impact on traditional
approaches to media history; alternative accounts of film
production and exhibition, with a special emphasis on film across
multiple media platforms; the changing relationships between
audiences, fans, and consumers within media culture; and the
globalization of our media culture.
