Media Studies: Theories and Approaches

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All the key issues and debates in media studies are covered in a lively and accessible style. Readers will learn about the main features of global media corporations, approaches to the study of media effects, consumer power, celebrity, journalism and new media. From surveillance to simulation, genre to gender, political economy to the postmodern, the reader will be guided through a matrix of intellectual endeavour on all media matters.

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Dr Dan Laughey is Senior Lecturer in Media and Popular Culture at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is the author of Music and Youth Culture and Key Themes in Media Theory. His two kids are technologically savvier than him.