Media Studies: Key issues & debates

摘要

This textbook aimed to undergraduate students of media brings together a rich and resourceful collection of essays that introduces theoretical perspectives across media studies in a very accessible way. The articles are preceded by a foreword from the renowned communication scholar Denis McQuail that traces the development of research and teaching in media studies in the last three decades and the rise of its profile despite the resistance to "attempts at clear delineation and boundary drawing" (p. xvi). The publication mixes well-established scholars and related fields of enquiry with emerging scholars that bring in new perspectives of areas that are not often featured in textbooks at this level. Kevin Howley's analysis of Community Media and their relation with public spheres, as well as de Kloet and Van Zoonen's piece on Fan Culture are two of the examples featured here (Chapters 14 ad 15). The diverse nature of the subjects discussed in the book are reflected in the variety of academic disciplines and approaches of the authors, ranging from Cultural Studies and Sociology to Marxism and Feminism.