The New Media Environment: An Introduction
Full details for this title
| Interest Age |
Young Adults |
| Reading Age |
Young Adults |
| Library of Congress |
Mass media - Social aspects, Internet - Social aspects, Information technology - Social aspects |
| NBS Text |
Social Sciences: Textbooks & Study Guides |
| ONIX Text |
College/higher education |
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| Number of Pages |
240 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 155mm
Height: 229mm
Spine: 13mm |
| Weight |
350g |
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| Dewey Code |
302.23 |
| Catalogue Code |
Not specified |
Description of this Textbook
This book is intended as a short overview for undergraduates in introductory media studies courses. In the last two decades, the way we experience the world through media has altered in revolutionary ways. These changes affect the way we watch older media like television, movies, and radio and offer up rich new interactive media like computer games and the internet. Understanding these changes is a challenge that confronts us every day in our roles as citizens, consumers, parents, students, and workers. Media Studies examines the new and rapidly developing field of media studies to discover what insights it has to offer students and general readers as they negotiate their way through the new - and thoroughly saturated - media environment.
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Awards & Reviews
| NZ Review |
If your students read just one book on the contemporary media environment, this should be it. Press and Williams deliver a masterful overview of the changing media landscape - addressing issues of ownership, politics, democracy, and identity - written in lively, lucid prose. (Laura Grindstaff, University of California at Davis) This accessible text draws readers into the complex new dynamics shaping our media environment today. From film to news, economics to textual interpretation, Press and Williams provide an indispensable introduction to the debates that now drive media studies. (Nick Couldry, Goldsmiths, University of London) Solidly founded on responsible media scholarship, this crisp analysis of the new media environment makes the novel seem familiar and the familiar seem novel. Press and Williams' bright and timely text demonstrates once again that there's nothing so practical as good theory. (Menahem Blondheim, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
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Author's Bio
Andrea L. Press is Chair of Media Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia . She is the author of Women Watching Television and the co-author (with Elizabeth Cole) of Speaking of Abortion , and has published widely in the area of media reception and feminist theory. Bruce A. Williams is a Professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia , and the author of After the News: Media Regimes and the New Information Environment (with Michael X. Delli Carpini) and Democracy, Dialogue, and Environmental Disputes: The Contested Languages of Social Regulation (with Albert Matheny) . His current research interests focus on the role of a changing media environment in shaping citizenship in the United States .
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