Critical Media Studies: An Introduction, 2nd Edition - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1118553977 ISBN 13: 9781118553978

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Synopsis

Fully revised to reflect today s media environment, this new edition of Critical Media Studies offers students a comprehensive introduction to the field and demonstrates how to think critically about the power and influence of media in our daily lives. * Presents an engaging and comprehensive introduction to a broad range of critical approaches to the field written in an accessible way * Features a new chapter on sociological analysis that reveals how audiences use media in their everyday lives to manage social roles, relationships, and contexts * Offers substantial updates to examples used in the book to reflect contemporary industry standards, textual forms, and audience behaviors * Delivers up-to-date media references that resonate with today s undergraduates * Updated with more global examples for broader appeal * Enhanced online resources, including PowerPoint slides, test bank, study guides and sample assignments, available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/criticalmediastudies

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Review:

?Two gifted media scholars, Brian L. Ott and Robert L. Mack, here explore the role of new and developing media in personal, social, and cultural development. They provide clear and workable explanations of terms that are often taken for granted, such as new media or postmodernity. This is an invaluable book for student and professional alike. It helps the reader not only to understand media but to take an active role in critiquing it so as to understand what it does.? ? Barry Brummett, University of Texas at Austin, USA ?Critical Media Studies is both theoretically sophisticated and accessible. With examples that span the full spectrum of contemporary media, the text is sure to engage students while also challenging them to think through the complexities of media and its impact on us.? ? Lisa A. Flores, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA

From the Back Cover:

Fully revised to reflect today's media environment, thisnew edition of Critical Media Studies offers students acomprehensive introduction to the field and demonstrates how tothink critically about the power and influence of media in ourdaily lives. Material new to this edition includes a chapter onsociological analysis and reveals new ways audiences use media intheir everyday lives to manage social roles, relationships, andcontexts. Readers will also appreciate the extensive updating ofpreviously discussed examples to reflect contemporary industrystandards, textual forms, and audience behaviors and the inclusionof more international material to reflect contemporarymedia's global reach.

Continuing its well-received writing style that is both engagingand accessible, the book's twelve perspectives providereaders with a diverse array of critical approaches to mediastudies, including original approaches such as erotic, sociological, and ecological analysis. Combining the best ofwell-tested theory with cutting-edge scholarship, this new editionof Critical Media Studies, offers invaluable insights intoour current understanding of the nature and consequences of mediain today's world.

Updated and enhanced online resources for instructors -including PowerPoint slides, test bank, study guides, and sampleassignments - can be found at www.wiley.com/go/criticalmediastudies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1118553977
• ISBN 13: 9781118553978
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 400