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The New Media Environment: An Introduction
Andrea L. Press
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Description for The New Media Environment: An Introduction
Paperback. Media Studies examines the new and rapidly developing fieldof media studies to discover what insights it has to offer studentsand general readers as they negotiate their way through the new -and thoroughly saturated - media environment. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 354.
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.
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.
- Explores how recent changes in our media affect the way we watch older media like television, movies, and radio, and offer up rich new interactive media, like video games and the internet
- The perfect introduction to the field of media studies
- Chronicles the recent dramatic changes in communication technologies, arguing that most of life itself is now experienced as 'mediated'
- Discusses the development ... Read more
- Emphasizes the broader political, social, and economic context within which these important new technologies have developed
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405127684
SKU
V9781405127684
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Ref
99-50
About Andrea L. Press
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 ... Read more
Reviews for The New Media Environment: An Introduction
"The book contains both extensive footnotes and a complete bibliography and index." (Communication Research Trends, 2011) "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 ... Read more