Media U - How the Need to Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher Education Marx JohnPaperback / softback
Media U - How the Need to Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher Education Marx JohnPaperback / softback Are homecoming games and freshman composition, Twitter feeds and scholarly monographs really mortal…
Specifikacia Media U - How the Need to Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher Education Marx JohnPaperback / softback
Media U - How the Need to Win Audiences Has Shaped Higher Education Marx JohnPaperback / softback
Are homecoming games and freshman composition, Twitter feeds and scholarly monographs really mortal enemies? Tracing over a century of media history and the academy, Mark Garrett Cooper and John Marx argue that the fundamental goal of the American research university has been to cultivate audiences and convince them of its value.Media U shows how universities have appropriated new media technologies to convey their message about higher education, the aims of research, and campus life. Media U presents a provocative rethinking of the development of American higher education centered on the insight that universities are media institutions.
Cooper and Marx examine how the research university has sought to inform The need to create an audience stamps each of the university's steadily proliferating disciplines, shapes its structure, and determines its division of labor.