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Greening the Media

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ISBN-10: 0195325206

ISBN-13: 9780195325201

Edition: 2012

Authors: Richard Maxwell, Toby Miller

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A lively, balanced, and insightful guide to interpreting the media, Doing 21st Century Media Studies gives readers a practical introduction to the major issues that comprise media studies--most significantly, the media's immense, relentless, and often pernicious effect on society. In this compelling and accessible volume, Toby Miller and Richard Maxwell present analytical tools that work to decode media messages, motivating readers to become more critically and politically engaged with their own daily intake of media. By outlining a more proactive and constructive approach to media studies, the authors argue that media is not merely something that is done to us--instead, they present it as…    
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Book details

List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/25/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Richard Maxwell is Professor of English at Valparaiso University.

Toby Miller is a British-Australian-US interdisciplinary social scientist. He is the author and editor of over 30 books, has published essays in more than 100 journals and edited collections, and is a frequent guest commentator on television and radio programs. His teaching and research cover the media, sports, labor, gender, race, citizenship, politics, and cultural policy, as well as the success of Hollywood overseas and the adverse effects of electronic waste. Miller's work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, German, Turkish, Spanish and Portuguese. He has been Media Scholar in Residence at Sarai, the Centrefor the Study of Developing Societies in India, Becker Lecturer…    

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Consumers
Words
Screens
Workers
Bureaucrats
Citizens
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index