Companion to Media Studies
A comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars. The result is an overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields
1 online resource (606 pages)
9781405171953, 1405171952
437065778
Print version:
Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Feminist Media Perspectives; 2 New Horizons for Communication Theory in the New Media Age; 3 From Modernization to Participation: The Past and Future of Development Communication in Media Studies; 4 Tensions between Popular and Alternative Music: R.E.M. as an Artist-Intellectual; 5 Approaches to Media History; 6 Ethical Issues in Media Production; 7 Digital Capitalism: A Status Report on the Corporate Commonwealth of Information; 8 Media Production: Individuals, Organizations, Institutions. 9 From the Playboy to the Hustler: Class, Race, and the Marketing of Masculinity10 Selling Survivor: The Use of TV News to Promote Commercial Entertainment; 11 Constructing Youth: Media, Youth, and the Politics of Representation; 12 The Less Space We Take, the More Powerful We'll Be: How Advertising Uses Gender to Invert Signs of Empowerment and Social Equality; 13 Constructing a New Model of Ethnic Media: Image-Saturated Latina Magazines as Touch