基本説明
Explores how recent changes in our media affect the way we watch older media like television, movies, and radio, and offer up rich new interactive media like video games and the internet.
Full Description
Media Studies examines the new and rapidly developing fieldof media studies to discover what insights it has to offer studentsand general readers as they negotiate their way through the new -and thoroughly saturated - media environment. * Explores how recent changes in our media affect the way wewatch older media like television, movies, and radio, and offer uprich new interactive media, like video games and the internet * The perfect introduction to the field of media studies * Chronicles the recent dramatic changes in communicationtechnologies, arguing that most of life itself is now experiencedas 'mediated' * Discusses the development of cable and satellite television,VCRs, DVDs, the internet and personal computers * Emphasizes the broader political, social, and economic contextwithin which these important new technologies havedeveloped
Contents
Acknowledgements. 1. IntroductionTale of Two Hurricanes. What Is a Media Environment? The Importance of Changing Media Environments. The electronic media. Media in the Twenty-First Century: What Has Changed? The age of the Internet. Conclusion 2. Ownership and Control in the New Media Environment. Patterns of Media Ownership and Control. Ownership and Control of the Media: Assumptions andRealities. Alternative models of media ownership. Who owns the media? Ownership and control in a global context. Does It Matter? The Consequences of Concentration and Conglomeration. The argument for market-driven media. The argument against market-driven media. What this means today. Conclusion. 3. Media and Democracy. Introduction. Changing Media Environments and Changing DemocraticPolitics. Why nervous liberals are still with us: The enduring problem ofpropaganda. John Dewey and the reconstruction of media and democraticpolitics. Empirical research: How do media actually affect citizens? Television and the Age of Broadcast News . Politics in the New Media Environment. Conclusion. 4. Studying Popular Culture: Texts, Reception, and CulturalStudies. Introduction: Hollywood and Representations of Reality. Media Studies and the Study of Reception: A Brief History of ItsMethods and Findings. Conclusion. 5. Studying Inequalities: Class, Gender, Race, and Sexuality inMedia Studies. A Critical Perspective on Inequality in Media Studies. The Frankfurt School. Cultural studies Media studies research findings on class,gender, race, and sexuality. Gender in Media Studies Research: Are Gender Roles CulturallyReproduced? Film and gender: Issues of reception and representation. Television and gender: Issues of reception andrepresentation. Media and Race. Sexuality. Conclusion. 6. Studying Media Texts and Their Reception in the New MediaEnvironment. Transformative Images in the New Media Environment. Globalization and the new shape of media identities. Media Reception Research in the New Media Environment. Global reception in the new media environment. Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Class Inequality in NewMedia Reception: A New Study. New Studies: Gender and Social Class Identities in the New MediaEnvironment. Politics, Media Impact and Use, and the New MediaEnvironment Old and New Media in the Individualized Media Environment: TheNew Media Environment Is Never Just New Media Bias in old media and new. Civic engagement in the new media environment. Americans and Political Discussion: How the New MediaEnvironment Is Changing the Civic Landscape. Conclusion. 7. Conclusion. We Are Living in a Mediated Age. The Complexity of Our Relationship With the Media. Human Agency in Media Decisions and Directions. In Closing: The Case of the RFID. Index.
