Mass Communication: Living in a Media World

by Ralph E Hanson

The best-selling Mass Living in a Media World 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. Readers are encouraged to consider the media industry from the inside out and, in doing so, discover the many dimensions of mass communication that operate in our society. The thoroughly revised Eighth Edition highlights how social and digital media, video games, and the COVID-19 pandemic are changing the face of media. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package.

Genres: Textbooks

488 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 3, 2020

Reviews

[Rin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely out of date. If your professor assigns this to you keep in mind that most things were written during the Dark Era of 2016-2019. Pre-COVID but during Cheeto times.

[Kristina Aziz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Honestly not bad

As far as textbooks go, reasonably current and not boring. Easy jumplinks in the Kindle version made studying pretty easy.

[Sora · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly, for a textbook, this was quite enjoyable and well-written. It did everything that makes a textbook effective, such as many headlines, noticeable key terms, and accurate, well-cited information. It even taught me a lot of insights into ethics and how journalism shapes the world. I’m not gonna lie and say I read the whole thing; I only read about 8 out of 15 chapters. But it’s good that I enjoyed it a bit, because the entire class this was for was literally just reading this textbook.

…it was still a textbook though.