Convergence Media History

Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history. Writing media history is no longer a matter of charting the historical development of an individual medium such as film or television. Instead now that various media from blockbuster films to everyday computer use intersect regularly via convergence scholars must find new ways to write media history across multiple media formats. This collection of eighteen new essays by leading media historians and scholars examines the issues today in writing media history and histories. Each essay addresses a single mediumâincluding film television advertising sound recording new media and moreâand connects that specific mediumâs history to larger issues for the field in writing multi-media or convergent histories. Among the volumeâs topics are new media technologies and their impact on traditional approaches to media history; alternative accounts of film production and exhibition with a special emphasis on film across multiple media platforms; the changing relationships between audiences fans and consumers within media culture; and the globalization of our media culture. . Language: English