Full Description
Get to the heart of fake news and brush up on your media literacy skills as you explore the media landscape of today, and where it all came from, using the current and relevant research found in Media & Culture.
Contents
Brief Contents
1. Media, Culture, and Communication: A Critical Approach
Part 1: Interactive Media
2. The Internet and Digital Media
3. Digital Gaming and the Media Playground
Part 2: Sounds and Images
4. Sound Recording and Popular Music
5. Popular Radio and the Origins of Broadcasting
6. Television: From Broadcasting to Streaming
7. Movies and the Power of Images
Part 3: Words and Pictures
8. Newspapers: The Rise and Decline of Modern Journalism
9. Magazines in the Age of Specialization
10. Books and the Power of Print
Part 4: The Business of Mass Media
11. Advertising and Commercial Culture
12. Public Relations and Framing the Message
13. Media Economics and the Global Marketplace
Part 5: Democratic Expression and the Mass Media
14. The Culture of Journalism: Values, Ethics, and Democracy
15. Media Effects and Cultural Approaches to Research
16. Legal Controls and Freedom of Expression
Case Study: A Guide to Identifying Fake News
