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Media and revolution : comparative perspectives /

As television screens across America showed Chinese students blocking government tanks in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and missiles searching their targets in Baghdad, the connection between media and revolution seemed more significant than ever. In this book, thirteen prominent sc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Popkin, Jeremy D., 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:As television screens across America showed Chinese students blocking government tanks in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and missiles searching their targets in Baghdad, the connection between media and revolution seemed more significant than ever. In this book, thirteen prominent scholars examine the role of the communication media in revolutionary crises -- from the Puritan Revolution of the 1640s to the upheaval in the former Czechoslovakia. Their central question: Do the media in fact have a real influence on the unfolding of revolutionary crises? On this question, the contr.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (258 pages)
ISBN:9780813156507
0813156505