Media Convergence: The Three Degrees of Network, Mass, and Interpersonal Communication

This second edition furthers conversations about the ongoing society-wide and worldwide digitalization of human communication.

Reviewing the long lines in the history of media and communication – from writing via printing and broadcasting to computing – the book lays out three general types of media: the human body enabling face-to-face communication here and now; the technically reproduced means of mass communication across space and time; and the digital technologies integrating one-to-one...