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McQuail’s Media and Mass Communication Theory

Seventh Edition


August 2020 | 688 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

"What a magnificent invitation to the field of media and communication - full of lively debate and relevant examples yet carefully balanced, comprehensive in scope and thoughtfully explained.“  

Professor Sonia Livingstone Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science

Now in its seventh edition, this landmark text continues to define the field of media and mass communication theory and research, offering a uniquely comprehensive and balanced guide. It maintains the narrative of earlier editions into the world of pervasive, ubiquitous, mobile, social and always-online media that we live in today.

New to this edition:

  • An increased focus on conceptualizing ‘mass’ media and communication and media theory in an age of big data, algorithmic culture, AI, platform governance, streaming services, and mass self-communication.
  • Further discussion of the ethics of media and mass communication in all chapters.
  • Inclusion of a diverse and global range of voices, histories and examples from across the field.
  • More detailed attention to the way media industries work and what it is like to make all kinds of media, including but not limited to: journalism, advertising, film, television, and digital games.
  • New and revised material, including a new chapter “A Canon of Media Effects”, bringing together Social-Cultural Effects & News, Public Opinion and Political Communication, helping the reader to rethink and reframe the whole idea of media effects and influence.

A vitally important resource for all students of Media and Mass Communication in the 21st century.


 
Part 1 Preliminaries
 
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Book
 
Chapter 2: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Mass Media
 
Part 2 Theories
 
Chapter 3: Concepts and Models for Mass Communication
 
Chapter 4: Theories of Media and Society
 
Chapter 5: Media, Mass Communication, and Culture
 
Chapter 6: New Media Theory
 
Part 3 Structures
 
Chapter 7: Freedom and Accountability of Media
 
Chapter 8: Ownership and Governance of Media
 
Chapter 9: Global Mass Communication
 
Part 4 Organizations
 
Chapter 10: The Media Organization: Pressures and Demands
 
Chapter 11: The Production of Media Culture
 
Part 5 Content
 
Chapter 12: Media Content: Issues, Concepts and Methods of Analysis
 
Chapter 13: Media Genres, Formats and Texts
 
Part 6 Audiences
 
Chapter 14: Audience Theory and Research Traditions
 
Chapter 15: Audience Formation and Experience
 
Part 7 Effects
 
Chapter 16: Processes and Models of Media Effects
 
Chapter 17: A Canon of Media Effects
 
Part 8 Epilogue
 
Chapter 18: The Future of Media and Mass Communication Theory

"What a magnificent invitation to the field of media and communication - full of lively debate and relevant examples yet carefully balanced, comprehensive in scope and thoughtfully explained.“  

Professor Sonia Livingstone
Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science

This informative, important and readable volume should populate the shelves of those wanting to understand more fully how the media and mass communication operate today. Continuing where McQuail’s legendary volumes on mass communication theory ended, Deuze pays him tribute while offering another chance to engage with its debates in real time.

Professor Barbie Zelizer
Annenberg School for Communication

Denis McQuail’s classic reference work, now thoroughly updated by Mark Deuze, provides an eminently dependable and accessible overview of media and communication theory. With a well-balanced mix of description, analysis, and supporting figures and boxes, the seventh edition remains a one-stop resource for student and scholar alike.

Klaus Bruhn Jensen
University of Copenhagen

We should be grateful Mark Deuze took on the task of bringing Denis McQuail’s book up to date. The result is one of the best introductions communication and media studies has ever had.

Professor Andreas Hepp
Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft

When you study this book, you realize that we all live not only with but mainly in media, and that this has a huge influence on our lives. This new book by Deuze and McQuail invites everyone into a conversation about what you read and to take up a position toward it. Deuze is an astonishing writer who takes you on a fast-paced journey through developments and approaches in media and mass communication theory. Deuze - building on the profound tradition of McQuail - has succeeded with this totally renewed edition!

Betteke van Ruler
Professor of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam

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