Loose-leaf Version for Media & Culture An Introduction to Mass Communication

by Campbell, Richard; Martin, Christopher R.; Fabos, Bettina

• ISBN13: 9781457634598
• ISBN10: 1457634597
• Edition: 9th
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2013-04-16
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

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, and keen understanding of the digital turn, the ninth edition shows how the media really works – and how to become informed media consumers and critics.

Author Biography

RICHARD CAMPBELL, director of the journalism program at Miami University, is the author of 60 Minutes and the News: A Mythology for Middle America (1991) and coauthor of Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade and the Reagan Legacy (1994). Campbell has written for numerous publications including Columbia Journalism Review, Journal of Communication, and Media Studies Journal and he is on the editorial board of Critical Studies in Mass Communication and Television Quarterly. As a writer and media critic, he is a frequent speaker on public radio and television.
 
CHRISTOPHER R. MARTIN is professor of journalism at University of Northern Iowa and author of Framed! Labor and the Corporate Media (2003). He has written articles and reviews on journalism, televised sports, the Internet, and labor for several publications including Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Labor Studies Journal, and Culture, Sport, and Society.
 
BETTINA FABOS, an award-winning video maker and former print reporter, is an associate professor of Visual Communication and interactive media studies at University of Northern Iowa. She is the author of Wrong Turn on the Information Superhighway: Education and the Commercialized Internet (2003). Her areas of expertise include critical media literacy, Internet commercialization, the role of the internet in education, and media representations of popular culture.