TY - BOOK ID - 440638 TI - Media studies : texts, production and context AU - Long, Paul AU - Wall, Tim PY - 2009 SN - 9781405858472 PB - Harlow Pearson Education DB - UniCat KW - Mass media. KW - Media. KW - Mass communications KW - Media KW - Media-analyse KW - Inhoudsanalyse KW - Mediastrategieën KW - Overheidsbeleid KW - Mass media KW - #SBIB:309H1000 KW - 130.2 KW - cultuurfilosofie KW - media KW - mediatheorie KW - Mass communication KW - Media, Mass KW - Media, The KW - Communication KW - Media: algemene en theoretische werken KW - Mediastrategie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:440638 AB - This groundbreaking and innovative introduction to Media Studies will afford undergraduate and mature students a comprehensive overview of the subject area. It will set students firmly on course to be critical, informed and canny operators within the discipline. The text is pedagogically rich and covers a wide range of topics from the history of media right through to coverage of new media. The text interweaves theory, practice, and professional issues throughout, and will engage the reader fully with the principal issues, challenges and paradigms in the discipline. Through a breadth of reference and support resources, students will activley grapple with a variety of media at both a practical and intellectual level. Students will emerge with a broad range of perspectives, a strong conceptual sense of the area and a firm foundation to take a critical approach to their studies at higher levels. Media Studies: texts, production and context will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, film studies, the sociology of the media, popular culture and other related subjects. ER -