A Self-Renewing Society: The Role of Television and Communications Technology

By N.D. Batra

Through the broad perspective of the systems theory, the sociobiology of self-renewal and the use of historical-critical research, this book explores the process of continuous dying and re-birth occurring daily in American society, in every society. Conceptualizing the media and communications technology as the collective nervous system of a society can help us in understanding the above-mentioned 'renewing' process. Of interest to professors and students of mass communications, government and public pol information science.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819179493
• ISBN13: 9780819179494
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 9.0"