. Encompassing media technologies, industries, texts and users, and combining coverage of classic theories with

Part 1. The mass media industries: Mass media and everyday life -- Books: Rearranging the page

media industries. Preface: The forces driving convergence in media industries. The internet industry

, "The corporation and the production of culture" -- Michael Curtin, "On edge: culture industries in the

of view. The book organizes these perspectives according to their focus on media industries, messages

major players in the media industries -- Case study : the music industry, technology and synergy -- 8

] presents the mass media's industries and the business, legal, ethical, social, cultural, global and

-- Industries -- Case study: the music industry, technology and synergy -- Research -- Production organisation

theory -- -- II. Convergence and concentration in the media industries -- 3. Print media -- 4. Radio/TV

. Globalisation -- 21. Case study: Making and enjoying global music -- 22. Industries -- 23. Case study: Who owns