The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication
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The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication

  1. 172 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication

About this book

Mass communication theories were largely built when we had mass media audiences. The number of television, print, film or other forms of media audiences were largely finite, concentrating people on many of the same core content offerings, whether that be the nightly news or a popular television show. What happens when those audiences splinter? The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication surveys the aftermath of exactly that, noting that very few modern media products have audiences above 1–2% of the population at any one time. Advancing a new media balkanization theory, Benoit and Billings neither lament nor embrace the new media landscape, opting instead to pinpoint how we must consider mass communication theories and applications in an era of ubiquitous choice.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. List of Figures
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction: The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication
  7. Chapter One: When ‘Mass’ Meant ‘Massive’: Cohesive Audiences and Heavy Impact
  8. Chapter Two: Partisan, Hostile, Fake, or Real: The Fragmentation of News
  9. Chapter Three: Not ‘Must See’ for Me: The Balkanization of Entertainment
  10. Chapter Four: The Customization of America: My Reality Is Not Yours
  11. Chapter Five: The Illusion of Modern Mass Media: False Cultural Barometers and Why Nothing Truly ‘Breaks the Internet’
  12. Chapter Six: “Don’t Tell Me; I’m Not Caught Up!”: Death of the Watercooler
  13. Chapter Seven: Media Balkanization Theory: Axioms and Implications
  14. Index
  15. Series Index