Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association′s The Mc Guffey Longevity Award
Media/Society: Technology, Industries, Content, and Users helps students understand the relationship between media and society and gets them to think critically about recent media developments. Authors David Croteau, William Hoynes, and new co-author Clayton Childress take an interdisciplinary approach with a sociological focus to answer questions like
How do people use the media in their everyday lives? and
How has the evolution of technology affected the media and how we use them? The
Seventh Edition incorporates the latest scholarship and data that address enduring media topics, as well as new concerns raised by the role of digital platforms, the impact of misinformation online, and the role of media during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Tabella dei contenuti
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I • INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 • Media/Society in a Digital World
PART II • TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 2 • The Evolution of Media Technology
PART III • INDUSTRY
Chapter 3 • The Economics of the Media Industry
Chapter 4 • Political Influence on Media
Chapter 5 • Media Organizations and Professionals
PART IV • CONTENT: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SOCIAL WORLD
Chapter 6 • Media and Ideology
Chapter 7 • Social Inequality and Media Representation
PART V • USERS
Chapter 8 • Audiences and Creators
Chapter 9 • Media Influence
PART VI • AFTERWORD
Chapter 10 • Globalization and the Future of Media
References
Index
About the Authors
Circa l’autore
Clayton Childress is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at University of British Columbia. He is the author of Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel.
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