Media Essentials focuses on the pivotal aspects of mass communication, helping students better understand what the media is and the impact of the most vital recent changes on the mass-media landscape. The new Media Essentials features an array of Digital Turn and Media Literacy boxes with specific, detailed case studies providing windows to broader ideas about the media, and a robust program of LaunchPad videos and Web clips that drive home the book's approach to media literacy, convergence, and analysis. In its fourth edition, this more concise and more affordable option for mass communication courses is more current, flexible, and informative than ever.
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It features new Media Convergence and Media Literacy boxes plus specific, detailed case studies; a newly integrated chapter on the history of journalism; and an expanded program of video clips on LaunchPad that drive home the book's ...
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For the second edition of Media Essentials, the authors have added and enriched coverage of media topics instructors asked for, including videogames, convergence, media literacy, streaming music, online journalism, and more.
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'Solid and elegantly written introduction to its subject, up to speed with the current movements in the field, this is an excellent textbook for first-year students.
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