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Price: $21.95

Format:
Paperback 480 pp.
129 mm x 196 mm

ISBN-10:
0199568758

ISBN-13:
9780199568758

Publication date:
March 2011

Imprint: OUP UK

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A Dictionary of Media and Communication

Dr. Daniel Chandler and Rod Munday

Series : Oxford Paperback Reference

The Dictionary of Media and Communication is an authoritative and wide-ranging A-Z providing over 2,200 entries on terms used in media and communication, from concepts and theories to technical terms, across subject areas that include advertising, digital culture, journalism, new media, radio studies, and telecommunications. It also covers relevant terminology from related disciplines such as literary theory, semiotics, cultural studies, and philosophy. The entries are extensively cross-referenced, allowing the reader to link related concepts that span different discourses with ease. It is an indispensable guide for undergraduate students on degree courses in media or communication studies, and also for those taking related subjects such as film studies, visual culture, and cultural studies.

With highly relevant web links to key essays, images, examples, and websites which complement the A-Z entries, all updated and accessed via a companion webpage, as well as a biographical appendix with web links to key people, this is a valuable resource for media professionals, postgraduates, academics, and researchers and an eminently practical and user-friendly reference for anyone involved in the worlds of media and communication.

Readership : Suitable for undergraduates taking degree courses in media and/or communication studies, as well as undergraduates studying related subjects such as film and television studies, cultural studies, and web studies. Also useful for media practitioners and people working in the media industry.

Reviews

  • "Chandler and Munday have produced a wonderful volume that is much more than a simple dictionary. The book concisely summarizes over 2,000 terms and concepts from multiple subfields of media and communication and related disciplines. It also provides extensive cross-references, which encourage readers to understand relationships among concepts and to make connections across different discourses. As result, the volume offers a fine introduction to the field to students and other newcomers while also enabling specialists in each subfield of communication to better understand and communicate with each other."

    --Joshua Meyrowitz, author of No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior (Oxford University Press)

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Daniel Chandler teaches media and communication studies in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University, where he established a degree in the subject in 2001, having run a major website on the same topic since 1995. He is the author of Semiotics: The Basics (Routledge, 2nd edition 2007) and a consultant in marketing semiotics with a particular interest in the visual semiotics of gender. Rod Munday has worked in television post-production since the 1980s, including jobs at advertising agencies and Greenpeace. In 2002 he became interested in studying the media and is currently working on a PhD examining communication practices in virtual worlds. He teaches on media production courses as well as lecturing on new media topics at Aberystwyth University.

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Special Features

  • The most accessible and up-to-date dictionary of media and communication available, covering the impact of the latest developments in these fast moving fields.
  • Over 2,200 clear, concise, and authoritative entries, extensively cross-referenced to help link concepts from different discourses.
  • Wide-ranging coverage includes advertising, digital culture, new media, telecommunications, and visual culture.
  • Entries cover all of the most important concepts, theories, technical terms and key topic areas likely to be encountered in media and communication studies and their related fields.
  • Entry-level web links included in the dictionary and kept up-to-date via a companion web page.
  • Biographical appendix included with weblinks to key people, as well as an appendix of further reading.