This is a manageable introduction to all the theories and approaches that make up media studies. The book is accompanied by extensive textual and online resources to give readers guidance at every step. Offering a truly global approach, this is a cutting edge text for today's students seeking to understand worldwide media, past and present.
Author: Mark Balnaves,
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald,
Brian ShoesmithPublisher: Red Globe Press
Published: 01/01/2009
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.70lbs
Size: 9.50h x 7.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780230551626
ISBN10: 0230551629
BISAC Categories:-
Social Science |
Media StudiesAbout the Author
MARK BALNAVES is Professor of New Media at Edith Cowan University, Australia. He is an expert in audience research and conducted Australia's first major Internet diffusion and adoption study. His books include
The Atlas of Media and Information (with Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and James Donald),
Mobilising the Audience (co-edited with Tom O'Regan and Jason Sternberg), and
Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods (co-authored with Peter Caputi).
STEPHANIE HEMELRYK DONALD is Professor of Chinese Media Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her publications include
Public Media in China (co-edited with Michael Keane, 2001),
Tourism and the Branded City: Film and Identity on the Pacific Rim (2007) and
The State of China Atlas (1999, 2005, 2008).
BRIAN SHOESMITH is Professor of Media Studies and Journalism at the University of Liberal Arts, Bangladesh in Dhaka. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University where he taught for many years. He is a founding editor with Tom O'Regan of
Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies and has co-edited many books, including
Refashioning Pop Music in
Asia: Cosmopolitan Flows, Political Tempos, and Aesthetic Industries (with Ned Rossiter and Allen Chun).
