Media, Culture and Society: An Introduction

摘要

There are a fair few general introductions to media and communication studies now on the market, so what does this have going for it? For starters, it is clear, informed, wide-ranging and well organised. It has the usual questions and exercises, and suggestions for further reading, but more importantly it illustrates its discussion of media structures and processes with many examples and case studies. There are three sections. The first covers 'elements of media', these being technologies, industry, content and users. In the second part, Hodkinson focuses on questions of influence and power, regulation and control.