Media Studies

Dan Laughey

• Publisher: Kamera Books
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781842434062
• Topic: Guías de estudio
• Subtopic: Guías de estudio

You've got TV, internet, phone, radio, movies, music, magazines and newspapers -- and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Unless we live on a desert island, there is no escape from media communications of one sort or another. So how do we begin to understand today's all-embracing media culture? In this book, all the key issues and debates in media studies are covered in a lively and accessible style. You will learn about the main features of global media corporations, and approaches to the study of media effects, consumer power, celebrity, journalism and new media. From surveillance to simulation, genre to gender, political economy to the postmodern, the reader will be guided through a matrix of intellectual endeavour on all media matters. Whether you are a student, researcher, practitioner or just someone with a general interest, Media Studies will serve as a handy reference guide on your journey through this complex but fascinating subject.

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Here are several lists of media studies books and websites. The first section comprises references to a selection of seminal studies discussed in this book. Most of these studies have been subsequently republished in more recent editions (dates refer to English-language first editions, unless stated otherwise). Alongside the reference materials detailed here, you should aim to keep in touch with a wide range of local, national and international media output on TV, radio, the internet, and in newspapers and magazines, as well as following developments in the film, music, gaming, advertising, public relations and telecommunications industries. Try not to overuse or underuse any single medium; try to maintain a cross-industry working knowledge of the media – and try to find time for study too (if you can).

SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Anderson, Chris, The Long Tail: How Endless Choice is Creating Unlimited Demand, London: Random House, 2006

Ang, Ien, Watching Dallas: Soap Opera and the Melodramatic Imagination, London: Methuen, 1985

Baudrillard, Jean, Simulacra and Simulation, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1994

Bell, Daniel, The Coming of Post-industrial Society: A Venture in Social Forecasting, New York: Basic Books, 1973

Bolter, Jay David and Grusin, Richard, Remediation: Understanding New Media, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2000

Boorstin, Daniel, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America, New York: Atheneum, 1961

Castells, Manuel, The Rise of the Network Society, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996

Cohen, Stanley, Folk Devils and Moral Panics: The Creation of the Mods and Rockers, London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1972

Davies, Nick, Flat Earth News, London: Chatto and Windus, 2008

Dyer, Richard, Stars, London: BFI, 1979

Fiske, John, Understanding Popular Culture, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989

Hall, Stuart et al (eds), Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies 1972–79, London: Hutchinson, 1980

Hebdige, Dick, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, London: Methuen, 1979

Herman, Edward, and Chomsky, Noam, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, New York: Pantheon Books, 1988

Jenkins, Henry, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture, New York: Routledge, 1992

Johnson, Steven, Everything Bad is Good for You: How Popular Culture is Making Us Smarter, London: Allen Lane, 2005

Keen, Andrew, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy, London: Nicholas Brealey, 2007

Klapper, Joseph, The Effects of Mass Communication, New York: The Free Press, 1960

McLuhan, Marshall, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964

Manovich, Lev, The Language of New Media, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2001

Meyrowitz, Joshua, No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behaviour, New York: Oxford University Press, 1985

Neale, Stephen, Genre, London: BFI, 1980

Postman, Neil, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, New York: Penguin, 1985

Rojek, Chris, Celebrity, London: Reaktion Books, 2001

Schiller, Herbert, Mass Communications and American Empire, New York: AM Kelley, 1969

Tapscott, Don and Williams, Anthony D, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, New York: Portfolio, 2006

Thompson, John, The Media and Modernity: A Social Theory of the Media, Cambridge: Polity, 1995

Williams, Raymond, Television: Technology and Cultural Form, London: Fontana, 1974

Williamson, Judith, Decoding Advertisements: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising, London: Marion Boyars, 1978

INTRODUCTORY BOOKS

Abercrombie, Nicholas and Longhurst, Brian, The Penguin Dictionary of Media Studies, London: Penguin, 2007

Balnaves, Mark et al, Media Theories and Approaches: A Global Perspective, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Bignell, Jonathan, Media Semiotics: An Introduction, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002 (Second edition) Branston, Gill and Stafford, Roy, The Media Student’s Book, Abingdon: Routledge, 2006 (Fourth edition)

Briggs, Asa and Burke, Peter, A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet, Cambridge: Polity, 2005 (Second edition)

Bryant, Jennings and Thompson, Susan, Fundamentals of Media Effects, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002

Buckingham, David, Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture, Cambridge: Polity, 2003

Connell, Barbara (ed), Exploring the Media: Text, Industry, Audience, Leighton Buzzard: Auteur, 2008

Couldry, Nick, Inside Culture: Reimagining the Method of Cultural Studies, London: Sage, 2000

Curran, James and Seaton, Jean, Power without Responsibility: The Press and Broadcasting in Britain, Abingdon: Routledge, 2003 (Sixth edition)

Devereux, Eoin, Understanding the Media, London: Sage, 2007 (Second edition)

Gane, Nicholas and Beer, David, New Media: The Key Concepts, Oxford: Berg, 2008

Gauntlett, David, Media, Gender and Identity: An Introduction, Abingdon: Routledge, 2008 (Second edition)

Gibson, Janine, Media 08: The Essential Guide to the Changing Media Landscape, London: Guardian Newspapers, 2008

Hall, Stuart (ed), Representation: Cultural Re...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION: TAKE FIVE
• MEDIA STUDIES MATTERS
• THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE
• MEDIA EFFECTS
• CONSUMER POWER
• POLITICAL ECONOMY
• REPRESENTATION
• POSTMODERNISM
• INFORMATION AND SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY
• MORAL PANICS
• CELEBRITY AND FANDOM
• NARRATIVE AND GENRE
• NEW MEDIA
• REFERENCE MATERIALS
• NOTES
• Copyright
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