Two new ECREA Series books published by Intellect

From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides and The Social Use of Media. Cultural and Social Scientific Perspectives on Audience Research have been just published.



From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides, edited by Divina Frau-Meigs, Jérémie Nicey, Patricio Tupper, Michael Palmer and Julia Pohle.

Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Through extensive research and testimonies from those involved, this book presents an in-depth account from the 1970s to the present of the major issues concerning information flow in international geopolitics, including a look at the negotiations surrounding the major policy debates.

Few studies of NWICO and WSIS have considered the continuity between the two activities – or included in the debate the crucial intermediary period between – and this book provides new insight into an issue of multilingual and multicultural importance.

> Book profile on the publisher's website, Intellect: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4895/



The Social Use of Media. Cultural and Social Scientific Perspectives on Audience Research, edited by Helena Bilandzic and Geoffroy Patriarche and Paul Traudt

This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Drawing on long traditions in both cultural studies and the social sciences, it brings together competing research approaches usually discussed separately. The topics include up-to date research on activity and interactivity, media use as a social and cultural practice, and participation in a cultural, political, and technological sense. This volume presents visions of current audience and reception studies and makes a significant contribution to the development of interdisciplinary approaches to audience and user studies.

> Book profile on the publisher's website, Intellect: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4923/



The ECREA book series consists of books arising from the intellectual work of ECREA members. Books address themes relevant to the ECREA’s interests; make a major contribution to the theory, research, practice and/or policy literature; are European in scope; and represent a diversity of perspectives.

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