Media/ Impact: An Introduction to Mass Media
By Shirley Biagi
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Praised for its engaging writing style, currency and visual appeal, Biagi's MEDIA/IMPACT: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA, 13e, focuses on today's digital mass media industries and support businesses as well as the legal, ethical, social, global and technological issues that these businesses face every day. The 13th edition focuses on how the mass media industries are intersecting to deliver content and how audiences are adapting to the new mass media marketplace. Providing thorough yet balanced coverage, Biagi grounds her discussion in the business aspects of all the mass media industries, with concise histories of each industry plus an insider's look at what it's like to work in each business. The 13th edition delivers up-to-the-minute coverage on digital delivery, artificial intelligence, social media, streaming, global distribution, disinformation and challenges to the First Amendment.
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Praised for its engaging writing style, currency and visual appeal, Biagi's MEDIA/IMPACT: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA, 13e, focuses on today's digital mass media industries and support businesses as well as the legal, ethical, social, global and technological issues that these businesses face every day. The 13th edition focuses on how the mass media industries are intersecting to deliver content and how audiences are adapting to the new mass media marketplace. Providing thorough yet balanced coverage, Biagi grounds her discussion in the business aspects of all the mass media industries, with concise histories of each industry plus an insider's look at what it's like to work in each business. The 13th edition delivers up-to-the-minute coverage on digital delivery, artificial intelligence, social media, streaming, global distribution, disinformation and challenges to the First Amendment.
Biagi's MEDIA/IMPACT: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA, 13e, emphasizes the mass media as interconnected businesses helps students see how economic concepts apply in books, newspapers, magazines, recordings, radio, movies, television and the Internet.
Bringing text concepts to life, more than 300 carefully selected all-new photos, cartoons and illustrations throughout the book highlight timely trends and important issues in today's media business.
A marginal glossary of key terms runs throughout each chapter, giving students concise definitions right where they need them and helping them build a media vocabulary.
Each chapter features robust concluding materials, including a summary organized by headings that correspond to the chapter's major topics, key terms with related chapter page numbers and questions to engage students in critical analysis of the chapter and deepen their understanding.
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Section One. The Mass Media Industries
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