Recent Textbooks in Media Studies
You will be assigned three textbooks, one from each category below. Write a one-page comparison to share. (Do not use the reading summary form.)
The following books may be on reserve at the library (if you find them in the stacks, please deliver them to the reserve desk). If you would like to check out a copy for more than two hours, please try other libraries or order a copy from an on-line bookseller (try addall.com) or from the publisher.
Advanced Textbooks
Baran, Stanley J., and Dennis K. Davis. Mass Communication Theory: Foundations, Ferment, and Future, 3d ed. Belmont, Calif.: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2003 (Available August 2002).
McQuail, Denis. McQuail's Mass Communication Theory: An Introduction, 4th ed. London: Sage, 2000.
Severin, Werner J., and James W. Tankard. Communication Theories: Origins, Methods and Uses in the Mass Media, 5th Ed. Boston: Longman, 2000.
The following books may be available in the general stacks of the library but are not on reserve. For several of them I will place my personal copy in the Communication Department office for reference, not for circulation.
Text-Based, Intermediate Textbooks
Croteau, David and William Hoynes. Media/Society: Industries, Images, and Audiences, 3d ed. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2002.
Newbold, Chris, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, and Hilde Van den Bulck, eds. The Media Book. London: Arnold, 2002.
Rayner, Philip, Peter Wall, and Stephen Kruger. Media Studies: The Essential Introduction. London: Routledge, 2001.
Curran, James, and Michael Gurevitch, eds. Mass Media and Society, 3rd ed. London: Arnold, 2000.
Grossberg, Lawrence, Ellen Wartella, and D. Charles Whitney. MediaMaking: Mass Media in a Popular Culture. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1998.
Illustrated, Beginning Textbooks
Baran, Stanley J.. Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
Campbell, Richard. Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication, 3d ed. New York: Bedford—St. Martin’s Press, 2002.
DeFleur, Melvin. Understanding Mass Communication: A Liberal Arts Perspective, 7th ed. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2002.
Folkerts, Jean, and Stephen Lacy. The Media in Your Life: An Introduction to Mass Communication, 2d ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2001.
Rodman, George. Making Sense of Media: An Introduction to Mass Communication. New York: Longman, 2000.
Biagi, Shirley. Media Impact: An Introduction to Mass Media, 5th ed. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2000.