Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture - Brossura

Baran, Stanley

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0073378909 ISBN 13: 9780073378909

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education, 2009

Riassunto

This text encourages students to be active media consumers and gives them a deeper understanding of the role that the media play in both shaping and reflecting culture. Through this cultural perspective, students learn that audience members are as much a part of the mass communication process as are the media producers, technologies, and industries. This was the first, and remains the only, university-level text to make media literacy central to its approach, and given recent national and global turmoil, its emphasis on media use and democracy could not be more timely.

Building on this tested emphasis, the sixth edition features a complete updating of industry statistics throughout, numerous new examples from the ongoing Iraq war, the Presidential election, and the emergence of wildly popular Internet applications such as massive multiplayer online worlds like Second Life and social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.

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L'autore

Stanley Baran earned his Ph.D. in communication research at the University of Massachusetts after taking his M.A. in journalism at Pennsylvania State University. He taught for 4 years at Cleveland State University, eventually moving to the University of Texas. He led the Department of Radio-TV-Films graduate program for 6 of his 9 years in Austin and won numerous teaching awards there, including the AMOCO Teaching Excellence Award as the best instructor on that 40,000-student campus, the College of Communications Teaching Excellence Award as that colleges outstanding professor, and Utmost Magazines Student Poll for best instructor. Dr. Baran moved to San Jose State University in 1987 and served 9 years as chair of the Department of Television, Radio, Film, and Theatre. At SJSU he was named Presidents Scholar as the Universitys outstanding researcher. Now, he teaches at Bryant University, where he is the founding chair of that schools Communication Department. Among his other experiences shaping this book are service as a Fulbright Scholar and his many years of professional activity in audience research, writing for radio, and producing for television. Dr. Baran has published 10 books and scores of scholarly articles and sits or has sat on the editorial boards of six journals. His work has been translated into half-a-dozen languages. He is a skilled boater and a tenor saxophonist for the Wakefield, Rhode Island, Concert Band. He is married to Susan Baran and has two very cool children, Matt and Jordan, who grew up much faster than he wanted.

Contenuti

Part One: Laying the Groundwork

1. Mass Communication, Culture, and Media Literacy

2. The Evolving Mass Communication Process

Part Two: Media, Media Industries, and Media Audiences

3. Books

4. Newspapers

5. Magazines

6. Film

7. Radio, Recording, and Popular Music

8. Television, Cable, and Mobile Video

9. Video Games

10. The Internet and the World Wide Web

Part Three: Supporting Industries

11. Public Relations

12. Advertising

Part Four: Mass-Mediated Culture in the Information Age

13. Theories and Effects of Mass Communication

14. Media Freedom, Regulation, and Ethics

15. Global Media

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0073378909
• ISBN 13: 9780073378909
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 6
• Numero di pagine: 450