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Mass Communication, 3rd Edition
Mass Communication delivers an engaging and compact introduction to the field of mass comm without the glitz that does little to improve students’ ability to be smarter consumers of media or think critically about the media’s role in today’s society. Ralph E. Hanson combines solid content, incisive analysis, fun and conversational writing in a highly readable and informative text that will save your students as much as $50.
Employing an effective media literacy perspective, Hanson shows students that media are not something to be feared or demonized, but rather are an essential part of our lives that should be thoughtfully consumed. Updated to reflect changes in the media landscape, Mass Communication offers expanded discussion of:
• the role of social media in breaking domestic and international news stories;
• video games as a form of interactive media;
• the newspaper industry’s continuing financial woes;
• further consolidation of the media industry with the NBC/Comcast merger and the News Corporation’s purchase of the Wall Street Journal;
• public relations as a way of creating, developing, and nurturing relationships between an organization and its key publics; and
• integrated marketing communication in the advertising chapter.
UNIQUE FEATURES HELP REINFORCE THE BOOK’S APPROACH:
• Chapter-opening vignettes feature media professionals from Jon Stewart and Annie Leibovitz to Steve Jobs and Twitter founders Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone.
• Timelines place important media events in a broader historical context.
• Test Your Media Literacy boxes showcase current research, interviews, or noteworthy events with questions that model critical thinking, helping to cultivate critical media consumption.
• A marginal glossary helps reinforce learning of key concepts as students read.
THE SEVEN TRUTHS "THEY" DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT THE MEDIA:
1. The media are essential components of our lives.
2. There are no mainstream media (MSM).
3. Everything from the margin moves to the center.
4. Nothing’s new—everything that happened in the past will happen again.
5. New media are always scary.
6. Activism and analysis are not the same thing.
7. There is no "they."
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Issues in Media: Selections from CQ Researcher
Will the Internet kill television? Does indecency over the airwaves undermine American society? Is the U.S. media industry too consolidated? These are just a sampling of the important, provocative questions in this new reader, sure to lay needed groundwork and spark lively classroom discussion.
For current coverage of controversial and important issues centering on media, offer your students the balanced reporting, complete overviews, and engaging writing that CQ Researcher has consistently provided for over eighty years. This ideal supplement allows students to see an issue—be it Media Bias, the Rise of Blogs, or The Future of Newspapers—from all sides while giving them a window into the linkages between media, culture, business, and politics. In addition, useful pedagogical features—pro/con pieces, graphs, tables, photos, suggested readings, and bibliographies—advance critical thinking and help in study and review.
For more on Issues in Media, including the table of contents, click here.
About the Author :
Ralph E. Hanson is a professor in the communication department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, where he teaches courses in writing, blogging, reporting, and mass communication. Previously, he was on the faculty at West Virginia University and Northern Arizona University. He has been teaching introduction to mass communication for more than twenty-five years, and he has worked extensively on developing online courses and degree programs. Hanson has a bachelor’s degree in journalism and anthropology from Iowa State University, a master’s degree in journalism from Iowa State, and a doctorate in sociology from Arizona State University. He recently completed a book chapter on the long-standing connections between the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and the NFL’s Super Bowl. When Ralph is not out on his motorcycle riding to places a long way from Nebraska, he is blogging on mass communication issues at http://ralphehanson.com. He tweets as @ralphehanson.
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