TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brevini,Benedetta
AU  - Swiatek,Lukasz
TI  - Amazon: understanding a global communication giant 
T2  - Global media giants
SN  - 9780367559090
AV  - HF5548.32 .B745 2021eb
U1  - 384.3/3 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Amazon.com (Firm)
KW  - Electronic commerce
KW  - Internet industry
KW  - Mass media
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - "Routledge Focus" -- taken from front cover
N2  - "Taking a political economy of media approach, this book examines Amazon as a significant actor in the global media landscape. Amazon is mainly conceived in the popular consciousness and media commentary as a corporate body, selling products and services to individual consumers and organisations, but Brevini and Swiatek show that Amazon has become a communication giant that trades in diversified media (its own and others), and exerts a significant influence on global communication, especially through its online services. Further, the authors provide evidence of Amazon's multiple influences on politics, economics and culture. With its comprehensive and critical overview, this book is ideal for students, scholars and researchers of media and communication studies and political economy"--
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780367816711
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -