Media/Society: Technology, Industries, Content, and Users

by David R Croteau, William D. Hoynes, Clayton Childress

Winner of the 2022 Textbook & Academic Authors Association′s The McGuffey Longevity Award Media/ Technology, Industries, Content, and Users helps students understand the relationship between media and society and gets them to think critically about recent media developments. Authors David Croteau, William Hoynes, and new co-author Clayton Childress take an interdisciplinary approach with a sociological focus to answer questions like How do people use the media in their everyday lives? and How has the evolution of technology affected the media and how we use them? The Seventh Edition incorporates the latest scholarship and data that address enduring media topics, as well as new concerns raised by the role of digital platforms, the impact of misinformation online, and the role of media during the COVID-19 pandemic.

520 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 11, 2021

Reviews

[Jordan]

Read as ebook

[Jennica Dotson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the 7th edition. I actually found this unusually interesting and easy-to-read for a textbook.

[Arja · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read the 7th edition.

[Elke Schraa]

School shenanigans

[Autumn Lytle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this for a Media Studies class, and much preferred the other little readings over this junk. I read enough of it that it counts for me, but I didn’t like it.