Mass Communication

Mass Communication
Author: Ralph E. Hanson
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 1297
Release: 2016-10-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 150635856X

Transform your students into smart, savvy consumers of the media. Mass Communication: Living in a Media World (Ralph E. Hanson) provides students with comprehensive yet concise coverage of all aspects of mass media, along with insightful analysis, robust pedagogy, and fun, conversational writing. In every chapter of this bestselling text, students will explore the latest developments and current events that are rapidly changing the media landscape. This newly revised Sixth Edition is packed with contemporary examples, engaging infographics, and compelling stories about the ways mass media shape our lives. From start to finish, students will learn the media literacy principles and critical thinking skills they need to become savvy media consumers.

Mass Media

Mass Media
Author: James B. Martin
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781590332627

Mass media has become an integral part of the human experience. News travels around the world in a split second affecting people in other countries in untold ways. Although being on top of the news may be good, at least for news junkies, mass media also transmits values or the lack thereof, condenses complex events and thoughts to simplified sound bites and often ignores the essence of an event or story. The selective bibliography gathers the books and magazine literature over the previous ten years while providing access through author, title and subject indexes.

Media Literacy

Media Literacy
Author: W. James Potter
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-02-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780761923152

This updated Second Edition of Media Literacy introduces the fascinating world that operates behind visible media messages. This accessible edition includes updated figures and information about computers and the Internet. Media Literacy helps the reader to establish knowledge structures from which they can consciously filter out negative media effects, while acknowledging the positive instructional and entertainment value of media. The author provides the details necessary to facilitate media literacy, rather than merely surveying why it is needed; integrates theory with practice; includes exercises to help readers improve media literacy; emphasizes examples and exercises that support the key ideas of any media studies; and invites students to think like a psychologist, an economist, an advertiser, a journalist, a media critic, a producer, and a policy maker.

Media and Power

Media and Power
Author: James Curran
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134900376

Media and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society. *How much power do the media have? *Who really controls the media? *What is the relationship between media and power in society? In this major new book, James Curran reviews the different answers which have been given, before advancing original interpretations in a series of ground-breaking essays. This book also provides a guided tour of the major debates in media studies. What part did the media play in the making of modern society? How did 'new media' change society in the past? Will radical media research recover from its mid-life crisis? Is public service television the dying product of the nation in an age of globalization? Media and Power provides both a clear introduction to media research and an innovative analysis of media power.

Media of Mass Communication

Media of Mass Communication
Author: John Vivian
Publisher: Pearson Educacion
Total Pages: 504
Release: 2012-02-03
Genre: Communication
ISBN: 9780205876457

Updated in its eleventh edition, The Media of Mass Communication engages readers in the pursuit of greater media literacy and provides accessible insight into the important issues that confront students as consumers and purveyors of mass media. Through exceptional coverage of contemporary media issues and trends, including the on-going transformations in mass media, this text balances the principles and foundations of media literacy with lively examples, streamlined coverage, and a robust media package.

Media and Society

Media and Society
Author: John Ryan
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In this large-scale, postindustrial society, the mass media has become deeply embedded into the lifestyles of everyday citizens. People are lured by television ratings, celebrity-sponsored products, and high-profile crimes and scandals, all finding their way into living rooms across America by satellites, cable wires, and modems. This book examines the real, imagined, and potential effects of the mass media on individuals and society. The book explores the processes through which the mass media is enabled and constrained by such factors as technology, law, industry structure, and occupational careers, accounting for the vast changes that have developed in recent years. This book is divided into two parts. Part I defines mass communication and locates its role in social life. Part II considers the factors which influence media content, providing insight into how the industry operates. Sociologists, Communication and Mass Media specialists, film, music, and pop culture critics, and enthusiasts of these fields.

Understanding Media

Understanding Media
Author: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2016-09-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781537430058

When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.

Media & Culture

Media & Culture
Author: Richard Campbell
Publisher: Bedford Books
Total Pages: 613
Release: 2002
Genre: Mass media and culture
ISBN: 9780312390709

Rev. ed. of: Media and culture. 2nd ed. c2000. Includes bibliographical references (p. 575-582) and index.

Mass Media

Mass Media
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2003
Genre: Mass media
ISBN:

Mass Media and American Politics

Mass Media and American Politics
Author: Doris A. Graber
Publisher: CQ Press
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2017-07-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1506340253

This comprehensive, trusted core text on media's impact on attitudes, behavior, elections, politics, and policymaking is known for its readable introduction to the literature and theory of the field. Mass Media and American Politics, Tenth Edition is thoroughly updated to reflect major structural changes that have shaken the world of political news, including the impact of the changing media landscape. It includes timely examples of the significance of these changes pulled from the 2016 election cycle. Written by Doris A. Graber—a scholar who has played an enormous role in establishing and shaping the field of mass media and American politics—and Johanna Dunaway, this book sets the standard.