The Mediated World : A New Approach to Mass Communication and Culture. Questo articolo non è disponibile.The Mediated World : A New Approach to Mass Communication and Culture

Today’s students have a world of knowledge at their fingertips, and no longer need textbooks filled with names and dates crammed into a single volume. The Mediated World takes as its starting point the understanding that readers want a compelling story, a good read, an intelligent analysis, and a new way of looking at the media revolutions around us. It is designed as a life line to help students understand and interpret the sea of media washing over us all.

In this text, David Mindich writes for students who want to understand how we communicate to one another, how we process our world, and how the media shapes us. His engaging and narrative style focuses on concepts and real-world contexts--he avoids a dry recitation of facts--that helps students understand their own personal relationship with media and gives them the tools to push back against the media forces.

One of the primary goals of The Mediated World is to empower readers by giving them a thorough understanding of the media; and by teaching them how to counter the force of the media and at the same time use this force for their own ends. Readers of this book come to recognize that they have the potential to be not only active consumers of media but producers of it on a scale never seen before.

Visit www.themediatedworld.com to learn more about this book.

David T. Z. Mindich(Ph.D. New York University)is the chair of the journalism department at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. Before becoming a professor, Mindich worked as an assignment editor for CNN; he has written articles for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Wilson Quarterly, Columbia Journalism Review and other publications. Mindich founded Jhistory, an Internet group for journalism historians. In 1998-1999, he was head of the History Division of the AEJMC, and in 2002, the association awarded him the Krieghbaum Under-40 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research, Teaching and Public Service.