Eoin Devereux (ed.), Key Issues and Debates in Media Studies. Los Angeles, London, New Delhi and Singapore: Sage, 2007. ￡20.00.392 pp

摘要

This new media studies textbook brings established and emergent scholars together between its covers. A wide range of issues and topics are covered, including Joke Hermes on media representations of gender and John Corner on the relationship between media systems and political systems, to Jeroen de Kloet and Liesbet van Zoonen on fan culture and Karim H. Karim on media and diaspora. Some of the contributions are instructive and rewarding, but as in any textbook, there are aspects of what is covered that are rather pedestrian and predictable. A major weakness of the book is its lack of structure and organization. According to its editor, Eoin Devereux, it is sequenced in terms of a production/content/reception logic of presentation. This is discernible, but it is a loose framework at best.