Media and Everyday Life

Beschreibung

Establishing a critical break with the way we usually experience media as given, this text takes a step back and asks challenging questions about what underpins that experience, and sets out the full range of academic perspectives available to begin to answer those questions.

• Questions taken-for-granted norms about media and encourages critical thinking about how media underpin the way we experience our lives
  
• Gives students an accessible and fresh way into thinking about media cultures, institutions, politics, technologies and industries
  
• Draws on philosophical and political accounts of daily life to demonstrate the purpose and meaning behind media
  
• On-page definitions of key terms and concepts to aid understanding
  
• 'Major Thinker' profiles to highlight some of the important theories and ideas at play within media and society
  
• Short 'In Focus' features which zoom into specific illustrative aspects of media and theory
  
• End-of-chapter questions to help students apply and reinforce their learning
  

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Tim Markham

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