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Book Reviews: Volume 12
Irish Communication Review
B. O’Neill, M. Ala-Fossi, P. Jauert, S. Lax, L. Nyre and H. Shaw (eds), Digital Radio in Europe: Technologies, Industries and Cultures, reviewed by Pat Hannon
Rosemary Day, Community Radio in Ireland: Participation and Multiflows, reviewed by Pat Hannon
Paschal Preston, Making the News: journalism and news cultures in contemporary Europe, reviewed by Nora French
Christopher Morash, A History of the Media in Ireland, reviewed by John Horgan
New Media As Social Facts: Researching As Shaping The Digital Landscape, James Cornford
New Media As Social Facts: Researching As Shaping The Digital Landscape, James Cornford
Irish Communication Review
The emergence of new media (or digital media, or perhaps even ‘the new economy’) has certainly had some salutary effects on media studies. The advent of the Web has raised (or re-raised) a whole set of interesting questions for those concerned with researching various aspects of the media from those concerned with political economy and industrial organisation to those concerned with reception, interpretations and texts. Digital media frequently appear, even in the most sober accounts, to be some unstoppable tidal wave of change, a complex and multi-layered landscape moving so fast that researchers can only rush to try to keep …
The Case For Irish Newspapers Entering The Interactive Digital Market, Colm Murphy
The Case For Irish Newspapers Entering The Interactive Digital Market, Colm Murphy
Irish Communication Review
For over 300 years the newspaper business has been inseparable from ink on a page. But the growing use of digital distribution technology such as the world wide web, wireless application protocol for mobile phones and the potential for interactive digital television makes readers simultaneously easier to reach but harder to retain. Newspaper readership is no longer confined to the technology of print. This opens new opportunities for publishers but aggressive players from the software, telecommunications and retailing sectors are also exploiting this new technology and encroaching on newspapers’ traditional market.