COMM 490: Music & Mediation

This internationally diverse collection of 134 hours and over 500 videos offers academic viewpoints and real-life insights into practices directly applicable to Communication and Media Studies courses. Top Hollywood producer Martin Cohen discusses film production; further contributors also include Sonia Livingstone on New Media, Joe Turow on Advertising, Barbara Zelizer on Journalism, and Stuart Hall on Representation

Useful for topics in communication studies, sociology, psychology, information science, public policy and linguistics, among others.

Seven volume work addresses research methods, audience, media effects, history, production and the future of media studies.

Includes entries on the media and communication: media formats, history, effects, social implications, journalism, political communication, etc.

Includes reference works relevant to communications, cinema and media studies, advertising, public opinion, journalism and mass media.

Includes concepts from communication, political science, journalism, sociology, psychology, history and rhetoric, encompassing the many different roles that communication plays in political processes in the United States and around the world. 2008

"Exhaustively explores the ways that editorial content--from journalism and scholarship to films and infomercials--is developed, presented, stored, analyzed, and regulated around the world." Lengthy entries on media history and background for countries around the world.

Provide an overview of classic and current research and future trends in media and communication, while at the same time providing an authoritative guide to theory and method, the key sub-disciplines, and the primary debates of today.