Comparing Communication Systems: The Internets of China, Europe, and the United States

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Klaus Bruhn Jensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Rasmus Helles (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

Comparing Communication Systems

The Internets of China, Europe, and the United States

Klaus Bruhn Jensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Rasmus Helles (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

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Routledge
29 November 2022

Communication studies; Media studies

Emphasizing the perspective of ordinary users, this book compares the uses of the internet in three centers of the global economy and world politics: China, Europe, and the United States. It examines the internet as the current centerpiece of communication systems encompassing interpersonal communication, mass communication, and social networking.

The internet is unique as a medium in that it hosts both ""old"" media and ""new"" media. As such, it also integrates the prototypes of one-to-one (interpersonal) and one-to-many (broadcast) along with many-to-many (social media) and many-to-one (surveillance) communication. This book considers how all these media and communicative practices are embedded in social structures, cultural traditions, and historical legacies of place. Comparing conditions in China, Europe, and the United States, the chapters provide an overview of the distinctive regulatory regimes framing the internet and its local uses, the place of the internet in everyday life in each setting, and how the internet serves as a resource for political, economic, and cultural actions and interactions.

Linking comparative analysis of media and social systems with ethnographic studies of internet usage on the ground, this book will be of particular interest to students and scholars working in global media, intercultural communication, and internet studies.

Edited by: Klaus Bruhn Jensen (University of Copenhagen Denmark), Rasmus Helles (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780367522339
ISBN 10: 0367522330
Pages: 220
Publication Date: 29 November 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 From media systems to communication systems 2 The comminicative state of states 3 The internet and other media of communication 4 Being social 5 How to do things with media 6 What media still do to people 7 Communication systems as scientific and normative agendas 8 Methodological appendix

Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Publications include A Theory of Communication and Justice (Routledge, 2021), and Media Convergence: The Three Degrees of Network, Mass, and Interpersonal Communication, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2022). Rasmus Helles, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His work has appeared in New Media & Society, Surveillance & Society, the International Journal of Communication, and the European Journal of Communication.