The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication
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Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- Introduction: The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication
- Chapter One When ‘Mass’ Meant ‘Massive’: Cohesive Audiences and Heavy Impact
- Chapter Two Partisan, Hostile, Fake, or Real: The Fragmentation of News
- Chapter Three Not ‘Must See’ for Me: The Balkanization of Entertainment
- Chapter Four The Customization of America: My Reality Is Not Yours
- Chapter Five The Illusion of Modern Mass Media: False Cultural Barometers and Why Nothing Truly ‘Breaks the Internet’
- Chapter Six “Don’t Tell Me; I’m Not Caught Up!”: Death of the Watercooler
- Chapter Seven Media Balkanization Theory: Axioms and Implications
- Index
- Series index
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Benoit, William L., author. | Billings, Andrew C., author.
Title: The rise and fall of mass communication /
William L. Benoit and Andrew C. Billings.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2020.
Series: Mass communication and journalism; vol. 27 | ISSN 2153-2761
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020006005 (print) | LCCN 2020006006 (ebook)
ISBN 978-1-4331-6426-2 (hardback: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-6422-4 (paperback: alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-4331-6423-1 (ebook pdf)
ISBN 978-1-4331-6424-8 (epub) | ISBN 978-1-4331-6425-5 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Mass media—Audiences. | Consumers’ preferences—United
States. | Mass media—United States—History.
Classification: LCC P96.A83 B46 2020 (print) | LCC P96.A83 (ebook)
DDC 302.23—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006005
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006006
DOI 10.3726/b16805
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About the 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.
This eBook can be cited
This edition of the eBook can be cited. To enable this we have marked the start and end of a page. In cases where a word straddles a page break, the marker is placed inside the word at exactly the same position as in the physical book. This means that occasionally a word might be bifurcated by this marker.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Rise and Fall of Mass Communication
Chapter One: When ‘Mass’ Meant ‘Massive’: Cohesive Audiences and Heavy Impact
Chapter Two: Partisan, Hostile, Fake, or Real: The Fragmentation of News
Chapter Three: Not ‘Must See’ for Me: The Balkanization of Entertainment
Chapter Four: The Customization of America: My Reality Is Not Yours
Chapter Six: “Don’t Tell Me; I’m Not Caught Up!”: Death of the Watercooler
Chapter Seven: Media Balkanization Theory: Axioms and Implications
List of Tables
Table 1. Television Finale Viewership by Population Percentage
Table 2.1. Ratings and Population Shares (2019)
Table 2.2. Which Political Party Would Do a Better Job Handling this Issue?
Table 4.1. Best Selling Albums of All-Time
Table 4.2. Top 10 Highest Grossing Tours of All-Time
Table 6.1. 2018 Top Ten Most-Viewed Programs on Netflix
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- Pages
- XII, 172
- Publication Year
- 2020
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781433164231
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781433164248
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781433164255
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781433164224
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9781433164262
- DOI
- 10.3726/b16805
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2020 (June)
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Oxford, Wien, 2020. XII, 172 pp., 11 b/w ill., 6 tables.
