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Living in a Media World

Eighth Edition


March 2021 | SAGE Publications, Inc
ISBN: 978-1-0718-2111-4


About Mass Communication, Eighth Edition

The best-selling Mass Communication presents a highly accessible introduction to mass communication that equips students with the critical thinking skills to become savvy media consumers. To help students better retain the material, author Ralph E. Hanson uses a storytelling approach that weaves in examples drawn from everyday life.

About Mass Communication, Eighth Edition - Vantage Digital Option

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The best-selling Mass Communication by Ralph E. Hanson presents a highly accessible introduction to mass communication that equips students with the critical thinking skills to become savvy media consumers. Mass Communication – Vantage Digital Option, Eighth Edition delivers trusted content from Hanson's text on Sage Vantage, an intuitive digital platform that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools—including assignable video—all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers easy course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. For a personalized demo, please contact your Sage representative.

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PART I. INTRODUCTION TO THE MEDIA
 
Chapter 1. Living in a Media World: An Introduction to Mass Communication
 
Chapter 2. Mass Communication Effects: How Society and Media Interact
 
Chapter 3. The Media Business: Consolidation, Globalization, and the Long Tail
 
PART II. LEGACY MEDIA
 
Chapter 4. Books: The Birth of the Mass Media
 
Chapter 5. The News Business: Reflection of a Democratic Society
 
Chapter 6. Audio: Music and Talk Across Media
 
Chapter 7. Movies: Mass Producing Entertainment
 
Chapter 8. Television: Broadcast and Beyond
 
PART III. DIGITAL AND GLOBAL MEDIA
 
Chapter 9. Online and Mobile Media
 
Chapter 10. Social Media and Video Games: Becoming Part of the Story
 
Chapter 11. Global Media: Communication around the World
 
PART IV. STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION
 
Chapter 12. Advertising: Selling a Message
 
Chapter 13. Public Relations: Interactions, Relationships, and the News
 
PART V. REGULATION AND CONTROL OF THE MEDIA
 
Chapter 14. Media Law: Free Speech and Fairness
 
Chapter 15. Media Ethics: Truthfulness, Fairness, and Standards of Decency

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The LMS cartridge makes it easy to import this title’s instructor resources into your learning management system (LMS).These resources include:
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  • Sample course syllabi
  • Lecture notes
  • All tables and figures from the textbook 
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The Text includes all of the subjects and topics required for this course.

Professor James Borrego
Radio Television Film Dept, San Antonio College
March 25, 2022
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NEW AND KEY FEATURES OF MASS COMMUNICATION, EIGHTH EDITION

  • A new standalone chapter on video games and social media gives attention to important areas within mass communication.
  • Content on magazines and their influence on our culture now appears in relevant chapters rather than in its own chapter, reflecting a major shift in today’s media.
  • New chapter-opening vignettes feature brand-new stories about key figures and issues in the media to provide a powerful narrative thread exemplifying the major themes of chapters.
  • Updated chapters include new developments, new scholarship, and recent events in mass communication, from the COVID-19 pandemic, to issues of race and gender, and the balance between targeted advertising and user privacy.
  • A focus on the importance of representation, inclusion, and diversity is incorporated throughout the book, with an emphasis on whose voices are heard.
  • Seven Secrets About the Media highlight important principles of media literacy by uncovering such information as what the media are, who controls the media, how media content is selected, why the media behave the way they do, and how society and the media interact with each other.
  • Chapter-opening vignettes exemplify chapter themes by engaging students with current stories about the people at the center of newsworthy events.
  • Test Your Media Literacy boxes ask students to read about current research, interviews, data, or events, and then answer questions that encourage critical thinking to elicit analysis of the topic presented.
  • Test Your Visual Media Literacy boxes showcase images from various media, seeking instinctive reactions from readers, before providing context and questions that encourage critical assessment.
  • Review questions at the end of every chapter encourage students to apply critical thinking to examples of mass communication from literature and popular culture.   
  • Chapter objectives, summaries, and key terms guide readers through the content and allow them to revisit the material to reinforce learning.

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