Providing an overview of each major medium, this text's discussion is enhanced by three integrated themes: media as business; media and technological...
This comprehensive introduction to the field of media studies offers a variety of approaches to decoding media texts. It shows how to study media institutions...
Comprising specially commissioned contributions from leading scholars in the field, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical and practical overview...
This introduction to media studies for first-level students covers the main areas of the subject in a clear, accessible way. This edition exploes new...
Featuring key statements regarding the influence of the media in areas that include: identity, technology, economics, globalisation and surveillance,...
This title provides a lively introduction to different ways of studying media production. Drawing on current scholarship, the book clearly explains theory...
'Mass Communication' is a comprehensive, engaging, and compact introduction that brings a fresh media literacy focus to the introductory course. A chapter...
In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing...
This is the second volume of Melvin J. Lasky’sThe Language of Journalismseries, praised as a “brilliant” and “original” study in communications and contemporary...