š A user-friendly guide to key theories of
the media
š Includes an overview of today’s global
media industries and trends
š Packed full of examples to help make
sense of complex ideas
š Budget priced guide for media students
and the general reader
MEDIA STUDIES
DR DAN LAUGHEY
You’ve got TV, internet, phone, radio, movies, journalism and new media. From surveillance to
music, magazines and newspapers – and that’s simulation, genre to gender, political economy
just the tip of the iceberg. Unless we live on a to the postmodern, the reader will be guided
desert island, there is no escape from media through a matrix of intellectual endeavour on
communications of one sort or another. So how all media matters.
do we begin to understand today’s all-embracing
Whether you are a student, researcher,
media culture?
practitioner or just someone with a general
Dr. Laughey covers all the key issues and debates in interest, Media Studies will serve as a handy
media studies are covered in a lively and accessible reference guide on your journey through this
style. You will learn about the main features of complex but fascinating subject.
global media corporations, and approaches to the
study of media effects, consumer power, celebrity,
£9.99 PAPERBACK
AVAILABLE AUGUST 2009
‘B’ Format (198 X 129mm) 160pp
RIGHTS: WORLD
Dr Dan Laughey is Senior Lecturer in Media ISBN: 978-1-84243-324-9
and Popular Culture at Leeds Metropolitan
University. He is the author of Music and Youth
Culture and Key Themes in Media Theory. His
two kids are technologically savvier than him.
www.kamerabooks.com/mediastudies/
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