"While we all use digital technology daily, many of us don't realize how text, audio, and visual media converge together to enhance our everyday experiences. The new edition of "Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age" enriches students' understanding of these experiences a skill that has become more important than ever. "Media & Culture" starts with the digital world students know and then goes further, focusing on what the ..."
"While we all use digital technology daily, many of us don't realize how text, audio, and visual media converge together to enhance our everyday experiences. The new edition of "Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age" enriches students' understanding of these experiences a skill that has become more important than ever. "Media & Culture" starts with the digital world students know and then goes further, focusing on what the ..."
"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 ..."
"While we all use digital technology daily, many of us don't realize how text, audio, and visual media converge together to enhance our everyday experiences. The new edition of Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age enriches students' understanding of these experiences – a skill that has become more important than ever. Media & Culture starts with the digital world students know and then goes further, focusing on what these ..."
"While we all use digital technology daily many of us don't realize how text, audio, and visual media converge together to enhance our everyday experiences. The tenth edition of Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age enriches students' understanding of these experiences by focusing on what the constant changes mean to their everyday lives. Since the publication of the tenth edition, we've seen even more changes: revisions i ..."
"While we all use digital technology daily many of us don't realize how text, audio, and visual media converge together to enhance our everyday experiences. The tenth edition of Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age enriches students' understanding of these experiences by focusing on what the constant changes mean to their everyday lives. Since the publication of the tenth edition, we've seen even more changes: revisions i ..."
"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 esse"
"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 ..."
"The 2015 update includes the latest media developments and coverage of the political, economic, and cultural issues affecting our mass media and culture."
"The #1 introduction to mass communication, Media & Culture goes beyond the basic facts and presents students with a critical and cultural perspective on the media. A unique five-step process encourages media literacy and focuses on the reciprocal relationship between the mass media and our shared culture, helping students to become active participants in the media. The current examples, compelling storytelling, and cutting-edge new desi ..."
"Critiquing the mass media, and the role those media play in our lives, requires a critical eye. "Media in Society" gives students in upper level media courses a unique narrative-based approach to media criticism, exploring the stories media tell as well as the stories we tell about the media when we describe how it affects us. Organized thematically, "Media in Society" examines topics like narrative genre, entertainment culture, news, p ..."
"This volume is the first to examine the social, cultural, and political implications of the shift from the traditional forms and functions of print-based libraries to the delivery of online information in educational contexts. Libr@ries are conceptualized as physical places, virtual spaces, communities of literate practice, and discourses of information work. Despite the centrality of libraries in literacy and learning, the study of lib ..."
"... and unwavering enthusiasm for this topic. Thank you, University of Iowa and
the Spencer Foundation, for the funding that made the research behind this book
possible. Thank you, teachers, media specialists, principals, and students, who
agreed to participate in this project. Thank you, Catherine Chandler, Carole Saltz,
and Karl Nyberg, my editors at Teachers College Press who have deftly brought
this book to publication. Thank y ..."