Andrea L. Press, Bruce P. Williams

The New Media Environment

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Explores how recent changes in our media affect the way wewatch older media like television, movies, and radio, and offer uprich new interactive media, like video games and the internet
The perfect introduction to the field of media studies
Chronicles the recent dramatic changes in communicationtechnologies, arguing that most of life itself is now experiencedas mediated
Discusses the development of cable and satellite television,VCRs, DVDs, the internet and personal computers
Emphasizes the broader political, social, and economic contextwithin which these important new technologies havedeveloped

Produktdetails

• Wiley Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons / Wiley-Blackwell
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781405127684
• ISBN-10: 1405127686
• Artikelnr.: 28776749

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Modern Life Is a Media Experience 2. Ownership and Control in the New Media Environment 3. Media and Democracy 4. Studying Popular Culture: Texts
Reception
and Cultural Studies 5. Studying Inequalities: Class
Gender
Race
and Sexuality in Media Studies 6. Studying Media Texts and Their Reception in the New Media Environment 7. Conclusion Index

Rezensionen

"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

"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 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)