The World News Prism: Challenges of Digital Communication

Fully revised and updated, the eighth edition of The World News Prism analyzes the changing role of transnational news media in the 21st-century globalized world and its impact on rapidly changing news events.

 

• Includes a new chapter dedicated to evolving traditional and new social media in Middle East
• Expands the discussion of news systems in developing nations, comparing media growth in India and Africa
• Explores the impact of digital media on traditional societies
• Features important updates on the decline of print media in the West and the challenges this poses to global reporting
  
• Surveys the latest developments in new media and forecasts future developments