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Fully revised to reflect today's media environment, thisnew edition of Critical Media Studies offers students acomprehensive introduction to the field and demonstrates how tothink critically about the power and influence of media in ourdaily lives. Material new to this edition includes a chapter onsociological analysis and reveals new ways audiences use media intheir everyday lives to manage social roles, relationships, andcontexts. Readers will also appreciate the extensive updating ofpreviously discussed examples to reflect contemporary industrystandards, textual forms, and audience behaviors and the inclusionof more international material to reflect contemporarymedia's global reach.
Continuing its well-received writing style that is both engagingand accessible, the book's twelve perspectives providereaders with a diverse array of critical approaches to mediastudies, including original approaches such as erotic, sociological, and ecological analysis. Combining the best ofwell-tested theory with cutting-edge scholarship, this new editionof Critical Media Studies, offers invaluable insights intoour current understanding of the nature and consequences of mediain today's world.
Updated and enhanced online resources for instructors -including PowerPoint slides, test bank, study guides, and sampleassignments - can be found at www.wiley.com/go/criticalmediastudies.
Brian L. Ott is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the author of The Small Screen: How Television Equips Us to Live in the Information Age (Wiley Blackwell, 2007) and co-editor of It's Not TV: Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era (2008).
Robert L. Mack is a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His writing has appeared in The Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts and The Journal of GLBT Family Studies.
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