Media studies
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Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences, and communication studies.
Researchers may also develop and employ theories and methods from disciplines including cultural studies, rhetoric, philosophy, literary theory, psychology, political science, political economy, economics, sociology, anthropology, social theory, art history and criticism, film theory, and information theory.
See also
- Anthropology of media
- Bread and circuses
- Innis's time- and space-bias
- Journalism
- Market for loyalties theory
- Mass media
- Mass communication
- McLuhan's tetrad of media effects
- Media culture
- Media echo chamber
- Media ecology
- Media criticism
- Media literacy
- Media psychology
- Media-system dependency
- Mediatization (media)
- Narcotizing dysfunction
- Social aspects of television
- Sociology
- The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
- Transparency (humanities)
- Uses and gratifications theory
Reading
- One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
- Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky
- "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
