"El objeto del presente estudio son las industrias llamadas "infocomunicacionales", que incluyen medios de comunicación, industrias de telecomunicaciones, internet y otras industrias culturales (editorial gráfica, fonografía y cinematografía). La investigación se ha realizado en Sudamérica y M
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éxico. También se relevaron datos de España. Se muestra en este texto cómo muy pocos grupos infocomunicacionales concentran la mayor parte de la producción, edición y distribución de los contenidos (información y entretenimiento) que circulan en las sociedades latinoamericanas, condicionando de este modo la diversidad de voces a escala masiva." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"By examining recent developments in the world system of television as well as several theories of culture, industry, genre, and audience, author Joseph D. Straubhaar offers new insights into the topic. He argues that television is being simultaneously globalized, regionalized, nationalized, and eve
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n localized, with audiences engaging it at multiple levels of identity and interest; therefore the book looks at all these levels of operation." (Publisher description)
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"César e Valério, com o rigor acadêmico que os caracteriza, nos brindam aqui com um marco amplo sobre a convergência tecnológica em geral e sobre a televisão digital em particular. Passam em revista o acontecido nos últimos anos na União Europeia, Estados Unidos e Japão; e analisam a fundo
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o caso do Brasil, seu mercado televisivo e as regulações do setor. O foco principal, porém, é aproveitar o momento da regulação da tecnologia digital para redesenhar o conjunto do sistema de comunicação do país em um sentido mais democrático. Este é um livro útil para todos os que batalham cada dia pela democratização das comunicações." (Descrição da editora de livros)
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"This book presents a network analysis of media ownership dependencies in ten Central and Eastern European countries. In addition to a detailed description of the media landscapes in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Romania and Slovenia it furthermore gives an overview of news agencies operating in thes
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e countries. The publication is the final report of the research project "Media markets in Central and Eastern Europe - Chances of and threats against media pluralism in Europe" carried out at Danube University Krems (Austria)." (Publisher description)
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"This report will describe changes in the TV industry in Russia between 2002 and 2005.1 According to the request of the European Audiovisual Observatory, in conformity with its statute, this report describes the organisation and market evolutions of the Russian television system and does not have th
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e objective of assessing the quality of the Russian news system or the quality of media pluralism in the Russian Federation. In a system where the role of political power is still important in structuring the market, it is however difficult to completely avoid any reference to political elements in the description of the development of this system." (Introduction)
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