Peter B. Orlik is also the author of Career Perspectives in Electronic Media. For more information visit http://store.blackwell-professional.com/9780813824772.htmlExploring Electronic Media: Chronicles and Challenges is a concise and insightful textbook covering the dynamics of contemporary electronic media. Rapidly evolving technologies have expanded this field exponentially, creating a wealth of information that is often hard to put into perspective. Taking an approach that balances media history with contemporary analysis, Exploring Electronic Media is as practically useful as it is instructionally informative.Written by leading authors who collectively bring a wealth of not only teaching, but also multifaceted industry experience to the subjectCovers the historical influences and contemporary issues in programming, technology, regulation and the business of mediaFeatures chapter reviews and discussion questions, as well as an introductory chapter that orients the reader to the broad electronic media landscapeExplores the fundamentals for understanding human communication as an underpinning to the study of media communication systemsConsiders the future and great potential in this ever-changing field.