Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks
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| Title: | Media Globalization and the Discovery Channel Networks |
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| Description: | This book is about the relationship between media and globalization, explored through the unique study of the global expansion of Discovery Communications, spearheaded by the Discovery Channel, one of the world's largest providers of factual television programming and media content. The book argues that the study of Discovery's relationship with globalization provides both a specific and a more general practical and theoretical understanding of how the processes of increased linking and interweaving of media and communications unfold and develop, as well as some of the consequences of this. |
| Authors: | Ole J. Mjos |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Television and globalization |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | This book is about the relationship between media and globalization, explored through the unique study of the global expansion of Discovery Communications, spearheaded by the Discovery Channel, one of the world's largest providers of factual television programming and media content. The book argues that the study of Discovery's relationship with globalization provides both a specific and a more general practical and theoretical understanding of how the processes of increased linking and interweaving of media and communications unfold and develop, as well as some of the consequences of this. |
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| ISBN: | 9780415992466 9780415809009 9781135213732 9781135213725 9781135213701 9780203872949 |
