The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Valdivia, Angharad, author.

Contributor:

Darling-Wolf, Fabienne, Contributor.

Scharrer, Erica, Contributor.

Mazzarella, Sharon R., Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (5024 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Wiley Blackwell Imprint 2014

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies brings together over 200 critical essays to redraw the boundaries of this rapidly evolving and dynamically complex area. Global in scope, wide-ranging in its inclusion of topics, and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars, this is the definitive resource for the field. Includes more than 200 essays written by over 230 leading and emerging scholars from across the globe Arranged across 7 thematic volumes edited by an international team of expert scholars Accessible volume introductions provide overviews of key themes The most definitive resource available in this complex, heterogeneous, multi-methodological and multi-theoretical interdisciplinary field Explores media as it is being practiced, produced, and analyzed in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Europe All volumes pay close attention to issues of gender and ethnicity so necessary to understanding contemporary media Probes the many dimensions of the subject: history, production, content, audiences, effects, and futures

Contents:

Volume I: Media history and the foundations of media studies

Volume II: Media production

Volume III: Content and representation

Volume IV: Audience and interpretation

Volume V: Media effects/media psychology

Volume VI: Media studies futures

Volume VII: Research methods in media studies

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781118733561

1118733568

OCLC:

914287730