Media Debates: Issues in Mass Communications - Softcover

Dennis, Everette E.; Merrill, John C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534579345 ISBN 13: 9780534579340

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

These renowned scholars present 19 issues specific to the interplay of media and society and debate them in this text. After a thoughtful introduction to the issue in that chapter, each author takes a pro or con position to debate the contested topic. Dennis and Merrill provide a context for students to think critically about key media topics and their impact on society by providing a balanced range of timeless and current issues in this unique format.

About this title

About the Author:

Everette E. Dennis is the Felix E. Larkin Professor of Communication and Media Instructor at Fordham¿s Graduate School of Business in New York City. He was founding director of the respected Media Studies Center at Columbia University and founding president of the American Academy in Berlin. He has been a dean at the University of Oregon and taught at the Universities of Minnesota, Kansas State and Northwestern. Dr. Dennis recently completed a major study of the digital strategies of the top 25 media companies¿the same year he won the coveted Eleanor Blum Award for service to research from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0534579345
• ISBN 13: 9780534579340
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 256