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"The Third edition of Experience Communication expands the scope and coverage of public communication. It's approach is focused on providing ample opportunity for students to improve their communication skills and to practice transferring them to contexts outside the classroom"--

This book shows how transnational media operate in the contemporary world and what their impact is on film, television, and the larger global culture. Where a company is based geographically no longer determines its outreach or output, rather the social relations of the new political economy of transnational capitalist ownership constructs media practices and content. As media consolidate and partner across national and cultural boundaries, global culture evolves. The new transnational media industry is universal in its operation, function, and social impact. It reflects a shared transnational culture of consumerism, authoritarianism, cultural diversity, and spectacle. From Wolf Warriors and Sanju to Valerian: City of 1000 Planets and Pokémon, new media combinations have disrupted the past conditions for cultural imperialism and reflect cross-border collaboration as well as boundary-breaking multicultural content. Intended for students of global studies and international communication at all levels, the book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in the way transnational media work and how that shapes our culture.

Introduction: Digital media, youth, and credibility / Miriam J. Metzger & Andrew J. Flanagin -- Digital media and youth : unparalleled opportunity and unprecedented responsibility / Andrew J. Flanagin & Miriam J. Metzger -- Toward a cognitive developmental approach to youth perceptions of credibility / Matthew S. Eastin -- College students' credibility judgments in the information seeking process / Soo Young Rieh and Brian Hilligoss -- Technology and credibility : cognitive heuristics cued by modality, agency, interactivity, and navigability / S. Shyam Sundar -- Trusting the Internet : new approaches to credibility tools / R. David Lankes -- Credibility of health information and digital media : new perspectives and implications for youth / Gunther Eysenbach -- Challenges to teaching credibility assessment in contemporary schooling / Frances Jacobson Harris -- Credibility, politics, and public policy / Fred W. Weingarten

Citizens' levels of mistrust toward the media, as well as their perception of media bias, have increased in past years in most Western democracies. This study explores how these negative observations on journalism may influence their use of traditional, citizen, and social media for news. Drawing on two-wave U.S. panel data, results suggest that media trust and perceived bias relate to media consumption differently. Trust in social and citizen media positively predicts use of news via social media, but has no effect on traditional or citizen news use. By contrast, perceived media bias is associated with decreased news use overall.

Personalized recommendations in search engines, social media and also in more traditional media increasingly raise concerns over potentially negative consequences for diversity and the quality of public discourse. The algorithmic filtering and adaption of online content to personal preferences and interests is often associated with a decrease in the diversity of information to which users are exposed. Notwithstanding the question of whether these claims are correct or not, this article discusses whether and how recommendations can also be designed to stimulate more diverse exposure to information and to break potential 'filter bubbles' rather than create them. Combining insights from democratic theory, computer science and law, the article makes suggestions for design principles and explores the potential and possible limits of 'diversity sensitive design'. ; Peer reviewed

Cultural communication, international exchange based essentially upon education, is a prime instrument of mid-twentieth-century foreign policy. Legislated a decade and a half ago, our exchange programs are in danger of be coming anachronistic. Our foreign policy assumptions and the problems to which our exchanges were addressed after World War II have changed strikingly. We must reappraise our cultural communications to make the techniques apposite to current, rather than past, problems. It is possible so to redefine our exchanges and so to revamp their legislative and administrative bases as to make them a prime and relevant instrument of national interest overseas. It is possible, in so doing, to provide for the co-ordinated use of resources avail able both in the public and private sectors of our society. Per haps the single most difficult problem in redirecting our ex change efforts arises from the political immediacy of issues to which exchanges must be related. Ways must be found to apply long-range educational instruments to urgent and explo sive national crises in major areas of the world.