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Mass Communication
Hans-Bernd Brosius, Veronika Karnowski
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Mass Communication Introduction Mass communication can be best described by its counterparts. With regard to the number of people involved, mass com...
McLuhan, Marshall
Paul Levinson
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Marshall McluhanIntroductionMarshall McLuhan (b. 1911–d. 1980) burst into iconic fame in the 1960s as a scholar who could explain the revolutionizing ...
Media Activism
David Elliot Berman, Victor Pickard
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Media ActivismIntroductionFrom Tiananmen Square to Tahrir Square, physical togetherness—the amassing of bodies in public space—is an integral part of ...
Media Aesthetics
Liv Hausken
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2018-03-28
Media AestheticsIntroductionMedia aesthetics is an interdisciplinary arena for research on media technologies, aesthetics (sense perception), and medi...
Media and Time
Robbie Fordyce
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Media and TimeIntroductionThe shift to electronic computing that began slowly in the late 20th century, and has only become more widespread since, was...
Media Bias
Robert Lichter, Justin Rolfe-Redding, Stephen Farnsworth
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2015-08-31
Media BiasIntroductionAre the news media biased? This has long been a heated question in the public sphere, particularly in the American political set...
Media Convergence
Richard A. Gershon
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Media Convergence Introduction For communication scholars, convergence is a fairly elastic term that has come to mean different things dependi...
Media Credibility
Yariv Tsfati
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media Credibility Introduction Audience perceptions regarding the credibility of news media have been studied using several concepts, including “medi...
Media Dependency
Joo-Young Jung
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media DependencyIntroductionMedia system dependency (MSD) theory was first developed by Sandra Ball-Rokeach and Melvin DeFleur in 1976. The theory add...
Media Ecology
Kate Milberry
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-05-23
Media EcologyIntroductionNeil Postman famously used a biological metaphor to explain “media ecology,” a term he borrowed from McLuhan to spearhead an ...
Media Economics
Randal Beam
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media Economics Introduction Scholarship on media economics applies economic principles and theories to the study of organizations and industries eng...
Media Economics, Theories of
Gracie Lawson-Borders
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2012-06-26
Theories of Media Economics Introduction The business of media includes economics and research, and studies in the field examine numerous aspe...
Media Effects
Yariv Tsfati
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media Effects Introduction Media effects are typically defined as social or psychological responses occurring in individuals, dyads, small groups,...
Media Ethics
Clifford Christians
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media EthicsIntroductionAs with professional ethics as a whole, media ethics is divided into three parts: metaethics, normative ethics, and descriptiv...
Media Events
Julia Sonnevend
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
Media EventsIntroduction“Media event” seems like a concept that has been around forever, but it is a relatively new invention in media research. Its o...
Media Exposure Measurement
James G. Webster, Harsh Taneja
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Media Exposure Measurement Introduction Measuring exposure to media is a common practice around the world. The principle reason for doing so i...
Media Literacy
W. James Potter
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2011-02-23
Media Literacy Introduction Thousands of books, articles, and web pages have been published about media literacy by authors all over the wo...
Media Logic
Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Sergio Splendore
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2015-06-29
Media LogicIntroductionThis entry offers a review of works in communication studies. It discusses the theoretical debate and empirical research that h...
Media Management
Juan Pablo Artero Muñoz
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2016-04-28
Media ManagementIntroductionMedia management is an interdisciplinary research area devoted to study how media organizations use scarce resources to me...
Media Policy and Governance
Monroe E. Price, Manuel Puppis, Stefaan G. Verhulst
Subject: Communication »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Media Policy and Governance Introduction One of the most important institutions of modern society, the media, has witnessed a dramatic transfo...
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