Key Concepts in Media and Communications

Paul Jones is Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. David Holmes is a Lecturer in Communications and Media, Monash University

Articulation Audience Broadcasting Capitalism Communication(s) Convergence Criticism/Critique Cultural Form Culture Culture Industry Cyberculture Deconstruction Digital Discourse Embodiment Encoding/Decoding Freedom of Communication Genre Globalization Hegemony Ideology Identity Image Influence Information Society Interactivity Mass Media Effects Media/Medium Mobile Privatization Modern Moral Panic Network (Society) News Values Popular/Populist Postmodernism Public Sphere Regulation Ritual Sign Simulacra Tabloidization Technoculture Technological Determinism Time/Space Compression

A sprightly, critical and intelligent guided tour around the mansion of media and communications/cultural research. It will be enormously useful for students and researchers around the world James Curran Professor of Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London A highly comprehensive guide to core concepts in media theory and criticism that is ensured of becoming a much-cited source Andrew Goodwin Professor of Media Studies, The University of San Francisco (aka Professor of Pop)