Introduction to mass communication media literacy and culture

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...

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Main Author: Baran, Stanley J.
Other Authors: Stanley J. Baran
Language:Undetermined
English
Published: New York McGraw-Hill 2012
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Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh
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Summary: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
Physical Description:xx, 449 p.
col. ill.
28 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0073526150
9780073526157