"Media Essentials focuses on the fundamentals of mass communication, helping students keep pace with today's rapidly evolving and converging media. Best-selling authors Richard Campbell, Christopher R. Martin, and Bettina Fabos distill the essential information on media industries and major concepts, incorporate their accessible critical approach, and give students all the study tools they need to succeed in the course and be savvy media ..."
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"Mass media have taken the digital turn: they have made the transition from the analog past into our digital future. Today's communication students need a book that keeps pace with those changes--and with their own experiences as media consumers. While students may be familiar with the latest technology, "Media & Culture" can help enhance their understanding of how we arrived at this point, and where we're headed. The new edition explore ..."
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"The new edition reflects the latest and most relevant changes to the digital media world, from multiplatform television to streaming music to shifting economics to social change. -- From publisher's description."
"It's no secret today's media landscape is evolving at a fast and furious pace — and students are experiencing these developments firsthand. While students are familiar with and may be using the latest products and newest formats, they may not understand how the media has evolved to this point or what all these changes mean. This is where Media and Culture steps in. The eighth edition pulls back the curtain and shows students how the ..."
"In fact, the eras of communication are themselves reinvented in this “age of
convergence.” Oral communication, for example, finds itself reconfigured, ... Also,
keep in mind the wonderful ironies of media convergence: The first major digital
retailer, Amazon, made its name by selling the world's oldest mass medium—the
book—on the world's newest mass medium—the Internet. A second definition of
media ..."
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"Today's communication students need a book that keeps pace with the ever-changing world of mass media – and with their own experiences as media consumers. While students may be familiar with the latest in digital technology, Media & Culture can help enhance their understanding of how we arrived at this point, and where we may be headed in the future. Using its signature critical process, cultural perspective, up-to-the-minute examples, ..."
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"Breaking the mold of traditional mass communication textbooks, Richard Campbell’s Media & Culture goes beyond the basic facts and presents students with a critical and cultural perspective on the media. Campbell uses a unique five-stage critical thinking process to help students examine the forces that shape the mass media and become active participants in the media. Media & Culture’s integrated cultural perspective focuses on the r ..."
"The text uses these stages to examine the historical context and current processes that shape the mass media as part of American culture. [Topics covered include] media technology and convergence ... a cultural perspective ... values and ..."
"Media Essentials is a new kind of introductory text. It's built to help students focus on the fundamentals, so that no matter how the media evolves, students can understand what's really going on. Brought to you by best-selling authors Richard Campbell, Christopher R. Martin, and Bettina Fabos, the book distills the essential information on media industries and major concepts, incorporates the authors' accessible critical approach, and ..."
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"Breaking the mold of traditional mass communication textbooks, Richard Campbell's Media & Culture goes beyond the basic facts and presents students with a critical and cultural perspective on the media. Campbell uses a unique five-stage critical thinking process to help students examine the forces that shape the mass media and become active participants in the media. Media & Culture's integrated cultural perspective focuses on the recip ..."