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The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies provides a state-of-the-art overview of media research and examines the theories, practices, and future of media studies. The Editors have brought together a variety of U.S. and international contributors to provide a universal viewpoint of the increasingly diverse and globalized media studies field.
The Handbook offers a comprehensive review of today's burgeoning field of media studies within five interconnected areas: humanistic and social scientific approaches; global and comparative perspectives; the relation of media to economy and power; media users; and elements in the media mosaic ranging from popular music to digital technologies, from media ethics to advertising, and from Hollywood and Bollywood to alternative media.
It is an ideal resource for graduate courses in media studies, as well as an excellent addition to any academic library.
List of contents
Introduction - McQuail
Prolegomena
Communication Ethics - Christians
Alternative Media for Social Change - Gumucio
International Communication - Sinclair
Comparing Media: the USA, UK and Iran - Sreberny
Technology - Braman
Digital Media - Van Dijk
Audiences, Users and Effects
Audiences and Readership Research Approaches: A Survey - Kitzinger
20th Century Media Effects Research - McDonald
Psychology of Media Use - MacBeth
Television Audiences - Nightingale
European Feminism, Media Studies and Cultural Studies - Hermes
East Asian Modernities and the Formation of Media and Cultural Studies - Kang
Economy and Power
Media Economics - Albarran
The Political Economy of Communications - Wasko
Government, the State, and Media - Neveu
Media, Public Opinion, and Political Action - Semetko
Media and the Reinvention of the Nation - Waisbord
News Production - Whitney, Sumpter & McQuail
Specific Areas of Media Research
Narrative and Genre - Newcomb
Media and Music Cultures - Zuberi
Advertising - Holden
Broadcasting, Cable and Satellites - Hilmes
Hollywood - Schatz & Perren
Bollywood - Naregal
Media, Violence and Sex - Smith, Moyer & Donnerstein
About the author
John Downing is Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the Univeristy of Texas, Austin. He is a co-editor of
Questioning the Media (1990) and has contributed to the journals
Media, Culture & Society and
Discourse & Society
Denis McQuail (1935-2017) was Emeritus Professor at the School of Communication Research (ASCOR) University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Southampton. He studied history and sociology at the University of Oxford and received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds. He is an Honorary Doctor of the University of Gent. He has published widely in the field of media and communication, with particular reference to audience research, media policy and performance, and political communication. His most recent book publication is McQuail′s Media and Mass Communication Theory, 7th edition., SAGE, 2020, co-authored by Mark Deuze.
Philip Schlesinger was appointed to the University of Glasgow's new Chair in Cultural Policy and became Academic Director of CCPR in January 2007. He was previously Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of Stirling and founding Director of Stirling Media Research Institute. He has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Greenwich, a Nuffield Social Science Research Fellow, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute of Florence, and has held the Queen Victoria Eugenia Chair of Doctoral Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was a longstanding Visiting Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Lugano, and at the Institut d′Etudes Politiques in Toulouse, CELSA in Paris, LUISS University in Rome, the University of Salamanca, and a Visiting Scholar at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. He is the author of Putting ′Reality′ Together (2nd ed. 1987) and Media, State and Nation (1991) and is co-author of Televising 'Terrorism′ (1983), Women Viewing Violence (1992), Reporting Crime (1994) Open Scotland? (2001) and Mediated Access (2003).
Dr. Wartella is Professor of Communication Studies and of Psychology at Northwestern University. Ellen is a leading scholar of the role of media in children′s development. Currently she is a co-principal investigator on a 5-year multi-site research project entitled: "IRADS Collaborative Research: Influence of Digital Media on Very Young Children" funded by the National Science Foundation (2006-2011).
Summary
The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies provides a state-of-the-art overview of media research and examines the theories, practices, and future of media studies. The Editors have brought together a variety of U.S. and international contributors to provide a universal viewpoint of the increasingly diverse and globalized media studies field.
