How are you affected by the media that surrounds you every day? Do you understand how technology works, develops and changes over time? What can you do to use the media more effectively? How can you make the media responsive to you? MEDIA NOW is the first mass communication text to encourage critical thinking about the media and its effects on culture while providing a thorough understanding of how the media technologies develop, operate, converge, and affect our greater society. Unlike other introductory mass communication books, MEDIA NOW prepares you for a career in the expanded field of telecommunications, interactive media, and traditional media industries. MEDIA NOW provides you with a book that will teach you the foundational theories, concepts, and technical knowledge to help you thrive in your chosen career. It has "news you can use" that will guide you to impact the media as much as they impact you.

Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology, 2008 Update (Available Titles CengageNOW)

Business & Money

Straubhaar, Joseph

LAROSE, ROBERT

Industries

Cengage Learning'

MEDIA NOW, Sixth Edition, empowers you to think critically about the media and its effects on culture by providing a thorough understanding of how media technologies develop, operate, converge, and affect society. MEDIA NOW prepares you for encounters in the expanding fields of the Internet, interactive media, and traditional media industries through engaging, up-to-date material that covers the essential history, theories, concepts, and technical knowledge you need to thrive. Extensively updated in a new sixth edition, MEDIA NOW provides a comprehensive introduction to today's global media environment and ongoing developments in technology, culture, and critical theory that continue to transform this rapidly evolving industry and affect our daily lives.

Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology

Davenport, Lucinda

Wadsworth Publishing

MEDIA NOW, 2010 Update, 6th Edition, encourages students to think critically about the media and its effects on culture by providing them with a thorough understanding of how media technologies develop, operate, converge, and affect society. MEDIA NOW develops students' media literacy skills to prepare them for their encounters in the expanding fields of the Internet, interactive media, and traditional media industries through engaging, up-to-date material that covers the essential history, theories, concepts, and technical knowledge they need to thrive. The 2010 Update of the Sixth Edition provides a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to today's global media environment with a focus on ongoing developments in technology, culture, and critical theory that continue to transform this rapidly evolving industry and affect our daily lives.

Media Now, 2010 Update: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology, Enhanced

* Shows where today's communication industries came from, how they arrived where they are today, and seriously assesses their trajectories into the future..* Gives students an understanding of how traditional mass media are being transformed as they converge with technologies such as the computer and telephone..* Early chapters introduce the key issues that cut across and reflect the convergence of various media forms, their links to economic history, and the economic and policy institutions that surround them, their uses, and their implications..* Middle chapters offer parallel treatments of the various mass media and information industries, focusing on their history and current structure, the way they are used, and the effects of that use..* Final chapters offer perspective on the broader implications of communications media, including separate treatments of the effects of the mass media and information technologies.

Communications Media in the Information Society

This text shows where todays communication industries came from, how they arrived where they are today, and seriously assesses their trajectories into the future, giving students an understanding of how traditional mass media are being transformed as they converge with technologies such as the computer and telephone. The authors help students rethink what we mean by mass media, and help them create a vision of their future in the information society and information economy.

Communications Media in the Information Society, Updated Edition

This introductory text, known for its innovative coverage of technology and conversion, now offers a more streamlined narrative and an expanded table of contents. The text addresses the main media channels in our society, their interdependency in light of emergent technologies and foundation theories, and traditional concepts. The new edition has been revised to offer increased coverage to media effects and ethics and traditional media (newspaper, film, and TV).

Media Now: Communications Media in the Information Age

This introductory text, known for its innovative coverage of technology and convergence, offers a streamlined narrative and an expanded Table of Contents. The text addresses the main media channels in our society, their interdependence in light of emergent technologies, foundation theories, and traditional concepts. This new edition has been revised to offer increased coverage of culture and media, the political economies of media, as well as offering students the opportunity to learn in a multimedia environment through the integrated technology that is the hallmark of this edition.

Media Now: Communications Media in the Information Age (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

Media Now: Communication in the Information Age

Do your students understand how they are affected by the media they use? Do they understand how technology works, develops and changes over time. MEDIA NOW is the first mass communication text to encourage students to think critically about the media and its effects on culture and also provide them with a thorough understanding of how the media technologies develop, operate, converge and affect our greater society. Unlike other introductory mass communication books, MEDIA NOW prepares students for their careers in the expanded field of telecommunications, interactive media, and traditional media industries, by providing them with a book that will not only excite them but teach them the foundational theories, concepts and technical knowledge to help them thrive. MEDIA NOW: UNDERSTANDING MEDIA, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY is that book!

Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)

Do your students understand how they are affected by the media they use? Do they understand how technology works, develops and changes over time? MEDIA NOW is the first mass communication text to encourage students to think critically about the media and its effects on culture and also provide them with a thorough understanding of how the media technologies develop, operate, converge and affect our greater society. Unlike other introductory mass communication books, MEDIA NOW prepares students for their careers in the expanded field of telecommunications, interactive media, and traditional media industries, by providing them with a book that will not only excite them but teach them the foundational theories, concepts and technical knowledge to help them thrive.

Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology (with InfoTrac 1-Semester, vMentor™Communications 1-Semester, Premium Web Site Printed Access Card (Available Titles CengageNOW)

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