A companion to media studies
A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars. The result is a fascinating overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields.
1 online resource (xiii, 590 pages)
9781405165440, 9781405141741, 9781405171953, 1405165448, 1405141743, 1405171952
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Feminist media perspectives / Margaret Gallagher
New horizons for communication theory in the new media age / Denis McQuail
From modernization to participation: the past and future of development communications in media studies / Robert Huesca
Tensions between popular and alternative music: REM as an artist-intellectual / Robert Sloane
Approaches to media history / John Nerone
Ethical issues in media production / Sharon L. Bracci
Digital capitalism: a status report on the corporate commonwealth of information / Dan Schiller
Media production: individuals, organizations, institutions / James S. Ettema & D. Charles Whitney
From the playboy to the hustler: class, race, and the marketing of masculinity / Gail Dines and Elizabeth R. Perea
Selling survivor: the use of TV news to promote entertainment / Matthew P. McAllister
Constructing youth: media, youth and the politics of representation / Sharon R. Mazzarella
The less space we take, the more powerful we'll be: how advertising uses gender to invert signs of empowerment and social equality / Vickie Rutledge Shields
Constructing a new model of ethnic media: image-saturated magazines as touchstones / Melissa A. Johnson
Out of India: fashion culture and the marketing of ethnic style / Sujata Moorti
Resuscitating feminist audience studies: revisiting the politics of representation and resistance / Radhika E. Parameswaran
The changing nature of audiences: from the mass audience to the interactive media user / Sonia Livingstone
The cultural revolution in audience research / Virginia Nightingale
Practising embodiment: reality, respect and issues of gender in media reception / Joke Hermes
Salsa as popular culture: ethnic audiences constructing an identity / Angharad N. Valdivia
Race and crime in the media: research from a media effects perspective / Mary Beth Oliver
The appeal and impact of media sex and violence / Jennings Bryant & Dorina Miron
The role of interactive media in children's cognitive development / Ellen A. Wartella, Barbara J. O'Keefe and Ronda M. Scantlin
The impact of stereotypical and counter-stereotypical news on viewer perceptions of Blacks and Latinos: an exploratory study / Michael C. Casas and Travis L. Dixon
Where we should go next and why we probably won't: an entirely idiosyncratic, utopian and unashamedly peppery map for the future / John D.H. Downing
All consuming identities: race, mass media and the pedagogy of resentment in the age of difference / Cameron McCarthy
Expanding the definition of media activism / Carrie A. Rentschler
Realpolitik and utopias of universal bonds: for a critique of technoglobalism / Armand Mattelart
Intellectual property, cultural production, and the location of Africa / Boatema Boateng
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