The Media Book provides today's students with a comprehensive foundation for the study of the modern media. It has been systematically compiled to map the field

Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday l

Looks at the emerging phenomenon of online journalism, including Weblogs, Internet chat groups, and email, and how anyone can produce news.

"As recently as the early 1970s, the news media was one of the most respected institutions in the United States. Yet by the 1990s, this trust had all but evapor

MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry explores evolving definitions of media and interrogates how media technologies are transforming media theory and practice. Th