The Internet’s Effects on Media Economies Here’s an example from one chapter, with page numbers removed: Each chapter also has well-defined subsections. The chapter structure provides the most obvious division of the text into accessible units. The framework and "voice" are internally consistent. The text is well written and meets the usual standards for editorial quality. The second part of the question referred to the implementation of updates. The references to the more-recent years tended to crop up in forward-looking statements such as this one: “With e-book sales expected to triple by 2015, it’s hard to say what such a quickly growing industry will look like in the future.” I conducted a text search that tabulated the number of references to the following years, and these were the results: For example, the book uses a graphic from the presidential election of 2008 in a treatment of politics, and “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” is an example of current television programming. The text is relevant to the focus of the course itself, but the examples and illustrations are dated. The primary weakness of the book is that it was published more than a decade ago and hasn’t been updated for a while. ![]() I didn’t notice any egregious errors of content aside from the fact that the book was published some years ago is no longer very current. When the text was published, it would have been considered “accurate.” The content was competently conceptualized, well written and reflective of the standard approach to this kind of material. ![]() On the other hand, the text is searchable, so the lack of an index is not a major problem as far as I’m concerned. I didn’t see a glossary in the chapters or an index at the back of the book. I don’t know if any intro textbook can cover “all areas and ideas,” but this text was adequate to the task-basically on par with any other textbook in this space. Reviewed by David Baird, Professor of Communication, Anderson University on 4/18/22 Overall, this is a great text and one that could be used in full for a course or in sections to supplement other communication/media studies courses! While appropriately comprehensive for an intro text, more examples and/or acknowledgment of who has been left out and those impacts could be helpful in the social values or culture discussions. It would help if there was a way to move forward without having to click on the table of contents, particularly in the online format. Topics presented clearly and in an order that makes sense.Įasy to read through and images clear and displaying readily. Small, easy to read blocks of text-could easily be used in a variety of courses and be reorganized for a particular course. ![]() Text introduces terms and frameworks and uses them consistently throughout. Is an accessible text in terms of clarity and provides necessary definitions throughout in order to provide the reader with an understanding of the terminologies. Mass media may always need updating, but this is appropriate and up-to-date. Having some more up-to-date citations, particularly in the media effects theories criticisms section (with some more explanations) would be beneficial-perhaps supplementing with some ways these have been updated would help a class. Reviewed by Elizabeth Johnson-Young, Assistant Professor, University of Mary Washington on 7/1/22Īppropriately comprehensive. Journalism, Media Studies & Communications.
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