Media/ Impact: An Introduction to Mass Media

MEDIA/IMPACT: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA, Ninth Edition, is designed to be the core text for the introductory mass media course--often titled Introduction to Mass Communication, Mass Media Survey, or Media in Society. Students often take this course as the initial introductory course in a College of Communication, School of Journalism, or Department of Radio-TV-Film, or Mass Communication. Students may take it as a required course for the communication major or as a general education elective.

Shirley Biagi is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at California State University, Sacramento. Her bestselling text, MEDIA/IMPACT: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA, is also published in Canadian, Greek, Spanish, and Korean editions. Biagi has authored several other Wadsworth Communication texts, including MEDIA/READER: PERSPECTIVES ON MASS MEDIA INDUSTRIES, EFFECTS AND ISSUES and INTERVIEWS THAT WORK: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR JOURNALISTS. Along with Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, she is co-author of FACING DIFFERENCE: RACE, GENDER AND MASS MEDIA.