Press, Andrea Lee.

The new media environment : an introduction / Andrea L. Press and Bruce A. Williams. - 1st ed. - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - ix, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: modern life is a media experience -- Ownership and control in the new media environment -- Media and democracy -- Studying popular culture: texts, reception, and cultural studies -- Studying inequalities: class, gender, race, and sexuality in media studies -- Studying media texts and their reception in the new media environment -- Conclusion.

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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015453386 Uk


Internet--Social aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Mass media--Social aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Internet--Social aspects.
Mass media--Social aspects.
Medien--Wandel--0 Gesamtdarstellung.
Massenmedien.
Digitale Medien.
Globalisierung.
Macht.
Sozialer Wandel.

HM851 / .P73 2010

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