Defining Media Studies

"The most significant forecast (among many) of Mass Communication studies."--Alan Fried, University of South Carolina"An outstanding addition to the field of media studies. Long needed. Fulfills an existing need. Readable and valuable for student and teacher."--Olin Briogs, Central Missouri State University"A wide-ranging but solid new approach reflecting who we are, how we got here, and where we are going in communication."--Robert Mendenhall, Southwestern Adventist College"An excellent introduction to all the modern and postmodern issues surrounding the conjunction of communication and culture. The postmodern concern over the reversibility of messages and codes is reviewed from many different perspectives. A must-buy for all communication researchers."--Richard Lanigan, President, Semiotic Society of America"Excellent collection. I am considering this as a text for a graduate theory course."--James Parker, University of Wisconsin-Superior

• Audiences and Institutions Sonia M. Livingstone: The Rise and Fall of Audience Research: An Old Story With a New Ending David Morley: Active Audience Theory: Pendulums and Pitfalls Klaus Bruhn Jensen: Problems and Potentials of Historical Reception Studies Herbert J. Gans: Reopening the Black Box: Toward a Limited Effects Theory Gaye Tuchman: Realism and Romance: The Study of Media Effects Seth Geiger and John Newhagen: Revealing the Black Box: Information Processing and Media Effects Robert M. Entman: Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm Frank Biocca: Communication Research in the Design of Communication Interfaces and Systems Ito Youichi: The Future of Political Communication Research: A Japanese Perspective Barbie Zelizer: Has Communication Explained Journalism? Rethinking the Critical Tradition Lawrence Grossberg: Can Cultural Studies Find True Happiness in Communication? Robert W. McChesney: Critical Communication Research at the Crossroads Eileen R. Meehan, Vincent Mosco, and Janet Wasko: Rethinking Political Economy: Change and Continuity Dan Schiller: Back to the Future: Prospects for Study of Communication as a Social Force The Search for a Usable History Everett M. Rogers and Steven H. Chafee: The Past and the Future of Communication Study: Convergence or Divergence? An exchange John Durham Peters: Genealogical Notes on "The Field" Susan Herbst: History, Philosophy, and Public Opinion Research The Academic Wars Pamela J. Shoemaker: Communication in Crisis: Theory, Curricula, and Power Lana F. Rakow: The Curriculum Is the Future David Swanson: Fragmentation, the Field, and the Future Anandam P. Kavoori and Michael Gurevitch: The Purebred and the Platypus: Disciplinarity and Site in Mass Communication Research Jose Marques de Melo: Communication Research: New Challenges of the Latin American School Acknowledgement Index