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The Mediated World

A New Approach to Mass Communication and Culture, Second Edition

David T. Z. Mindich

A full-color interdisciplinary exploration of how media and mass communication shape society and how students can take control of their media futures.

Today’s students have a world of knowledge at their fingertips and no longer need books to list names and dates. What they need is the story of how everything fits together and the critical tools to take charge of their place within that story.

David T. Z. Mindich’s The Mediated World charts the story of media as it has shaped human life and as it infuses every aspect of our modern existence. Mindich’s engaging narrative style focuses on concepts and real-world contexts to promote the media literacy students need to understand their personal relationships with media. Empowered as media consumers, creators, and curators, students realize their responsibility to work within the vast world of media to create more positive and productive futures.

The second edition of this text brings historical media and overarching themes to life for students. Each chapter opens with a contemporary vignette that meets students in the current moment before encouraging them to consider the past. “Application” sidebars suggest practical activities that allow students to delve deeper into topics while “Reflection” boxes encourage students to think critically about their own media use.

With a strong emphasis on media literacy that treats students as media stakeholders who have a vested interest in understanding its workings and effects, Mindich’s text is the perfect book for a generation of students looking to take charge of their futures in this mediated world.

New to the Second Edition:

  • New chapter-opening vignettes connect with students in the current moment before welcoming them to consider the past.
  • New Chapter 8, “Representation and the Lives that Matter in the Media,” encourages students to think critically about which people get to be heard and which are overlooked.
  • New Chapter 13, “Hot and Cold Video Games,” critically explores a powerful media force in students’ recreational lives.
  • Expanded discussions on current cultural, political, and technological references, engaging with controversies.


Features

  • Full color layout with photos and graphics to enrich students’ reading experience.
  • Integrated focus on representation in media reminds students of the pervasive impact of bias across society.
  • Margin keyword definitions help students develop critical vocabularies.
  • Three different feature boxes (Reflection, Application, and Now and Then) reinforce concepts and engage students’ critical thinking skills.
  • Chapter learning objectives, chapter summaries, and discussion questions reinforce historical frameworks and key concepts.

Access ancillary materials at https://textbooks.rowman.com/mindich2e.

    • For instructors: a test bank, lecture notes and slides, and a sample syllabus.
    • For the students: chapter flashcards, a digital glossary, and videos and links.
  • Details
  • Details
  • Author
  • Author
  • TOC
  • TOC
  • Reviews
  • Reviews
  • Features
  • Features
  • Resources
  • Resources
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 426 • Trim: 8¾ x 11¼
978-1-5381-8025-9 • Hardback • January 2024 • $160.00 • (£123.00)
978-1-5381-8026-6 • Paperback • January 2024 • $75.00 • (£58.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, History / Social History, Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
Courses: Communication; Mass Communication; General, Communication; Mass Communication; Media & Society/Popular Culture, Communication; Mass Communication; Introduction, Communication; Mass Communication; Gender, Women & Media, Communication; Media & Digital Culture

David T. Z. Mindich is professor of journalism at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University, where he served six years as chair. He is the author of three books and numerous articles, including ones in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Before becoming a professor, Mindich worked as an assignment editor for CNN and earned a doctorate in American Studies from New York University.

Teaching Preface

1. A New Approach to Media in Your Life

2. Growing Up in a Mediated World

3. Speaking and Writing

4. Printing, the Mass Public, and the Mass Private

5. Newspapers in a Digital Media World

6. Going Global with the Telegraph

7. Magazines

(NEW) 8. Representation and the Lives that Matter in the Media

9. Radio, Music, and the Soundtrack of Our Lives

10. Photography

11. Movies and the dream factory

12 . Television and Video

(NEW) 13. Hot and Cold Video Games

14. Advertising

15. Public Relations

16. Law and Ethics, Media and Journalism

17. Media and Agenda Setting in the Public Sphere

18. The Digital Revolution and What Comes Next

David Mindich brilliantly connects past and present, theoretical and practical, to help readers navigate a vast and ever-changing media environment and better understand how it impacts their lives. The Mediated World is a lively and powerful introduction to media literacy.


— Janice Hume, Professor and Journalism Department Head, University of Georgia


The Mediated World is the textbook of media studies we did not even know we needed, with its timeless, deep, conceptual exploration combined with fun content about everything from movies to journalism to public relations to advertising. Media historian David T. Z. Mindich has managed a masterful, critical accounting of how media have changed the very ways in which we think, communicate, and make meaning in our lives.


— Sue Robinson, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison


In The Mediated World, David Mindich’s approach brims with historical insight, cross-cultural awareness, theoretical sophistication, and contemporary relevance. This is a great undergraduate text for both media history and mass communications survey courses.


— Kim Pearson, professor, The College of New Jersey


New to the Second Edition:

  • New chapter-opening vignettes connect with students in the current moment before welcoming them to consider the past.
  • New Chapter 8, “Representation and the Lives that Matter in the Media,” encourages students to think critically about which people get to be heard and which are overlooked.
  • New Chapter 13, “Hot and Cold Video Games,” critically explores a powerful media force in students’ recreational lives.
  • Expanded discussions on current cultural, political, and technological references, engaging with controversies.


Features

  • Full color layout with photos and graphics to enrich students’ reading experience.
  • Integrated focus on representation in media reminds students of the pervasive impact of bias across society.
  • Margin keyword definitions help students develop critical vocabularies.
  • Three different feature boxes (Reflection, Application, and Now and Then) reinforce concepts and engage students’ critical thinking skills.
  • Chapter learning objectives, chapter summaries, and discussion questions reinforce historical frameworks and key concepts.

Access ancillary materials at https://textbooks.rowman.com/mindich2e.

    • For instructors: a test bank, lecture notes and slides, and a sample syllabus.
    • For the students: chapter flashcards, a digital glossary, and videos and links.



FOR STUDENTS
Accompanying the text is an open-access Companion Website designed to reinforce the main topics and help you master key vocabulary and concepts through flashcards and self-graded quizzes.
FOR PROFESSORS
Ancillary Materials are available for this title. For access to these professor use only materials, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com
Instructor's Manual. For each chapter, this valuable resource provides a variety of tools such as lecture outlines, student learning objectives, discussion questions, and other resources to simplify classroom preparation.
Test Bank. The Test Bank includes a variety of test questions and is available in either Word or PDF formats. For every chapter in the text, the Test Bank includes a complete test with a variety of question types, including multiple choice, true false, and essay formats.
To use our Test Bank in Word or PDF, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com
Lecture Notes. The Lecture Notes provide the tables and figures from the text.

The Mediated World

A New Approach to Mass Communication and Culture, Second Edition

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • A full-color interdisciplinary exploration of how media and mass communication shape society and how students can take control of their media futures.

    Today’s students have a world of knowledge at their fingertips and no longer need books to list names and dates. What they need is the story of how everything fits together and the critical tools to take charge of their place within that story.

    David T. Z. Mindich’s The Mediated World charts the story of media as it has shaped human life and as it infuses every aspect of our modern existence. Mindich’s engaging narrative style focuses on concepts and real-world contexts to promote the media literacy students need to understand their personal relationships with media. Empowered as media consumers, creators, and curators, students realize their responsibility to work within the vast world of media to create more positive and productive futures.

    The second edition of this text brings historical media and overarching themes to life for students. Each chapter opens with a contemporary vignette that meets students in the current moment before encouraging them to consider the past. “Application” sidebars suggest practical activities that allow students to delve deeper into topics while “Reflection” boxes encourage students to think critically about their own media use.

    With a strong emphasis on media literacy that treats students as media stakeholders who have a vested interest in understanding its workings and effects, Mindich’s text is the perfect book for a generation of students looking to take charge of their futures in this mediated world.

    New to the Second Edition:

    • New chapter-opening vignettes connect with students in the current moment before welcoming them to consider the past.
    • New Chapter 8, “Representation and the Lives that Matter in the Media,” encourages students to think critically about which people get to be heard and which are overlooked.
    • New Chapter 13, “Hot and Cold Video Games,” critically explores a powerful media force in students’ recreational lives.
    • Expanded discussions on current cultural, political, and technological references, engaging with controversies.


    Features

    • Full color layout with photos and graphics to enrich students’ reading experience.
    • Integrated focus on representation in media reminds students of the pervasive impact of bias across society.
    • Margin keyword definitions help students develop critical vocabularies.
    • Three different feature boxes (Reflection, Application, and Now and Then) reinforce concepts and engage students’ critical thinking skills.
    • Chapter learning objectives, chapter summaries, and discussion questions reinforce historical frameworks and key concepts.

    Access ancillary materials at https://textbooks.rowman.com/mindich2e.

      • For instructors: a test bank, lecture notes and slides, and a sample syllabus.
      • For the students: chapter flashcards, a digital glossary, and videos and links.
Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 426 • Trim: 8¾ x 11¼
    978-1-5381-8025-9 • Hardback • January 2024 • $160.00 • (£123.00)
    978-1-5381-8026-6 • Paperback • January 2024 • $75.00 • (£58.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / Media Studies, History / Social History, Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
    Courses: Communication; Mass Communication; General, Communication; Mass Communication; Media & Society/Popular Culture, Communication; Mass Communication; Introduction, Communication; Mass Communication; Gender, Women & Media, Communication; Media & Digital Culture
Author
Author
  • David T. Z. Mindich is professor of journalism at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University, where he served six years as chair. He is the author of three books and numerous articles, including ones in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Before becoming a professor, Mindich worked as an assignment editor for CNN and earned a doctorate in American Studies from New York University.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Teaching Preface

    1. A New Approach to Media in Your Life

    2. Growing Up in a Mediated World

    3. Speaking and Writing

    4. Printing, the Mass Public, and the Mass Private

    5. Newspapers in a Digital Media World

    6. Going Global with the Telegraph

    7. Magazines

    (NEW) 8. Representation and the Lives that Matter in the Media

    9. Radio, Music, and the Soundtrack of Our Lives

    10. Photography

    11. Movies and the dream factory

    12 . Television and Video

    (NEW) 13. Hot and Cold Video Games

    14. Advertising

    15. Public Relations

    16. Law and Ethics, Media and Journalism

    17. Media and Agenda Setting in the Public Sphere

    18. The Digital Revolution and What Comes Next

Reviews
Reviews
  • David Mindich brilliantly connects past and present, theoretical and practical, to help readers navigate a vast and ever-changing media environment and better understand how it impacts their lives. The Mediated World is a lively and powerful introduction to media literacy.


    — Janice Hume, Professor and Journalism Department Head, University of Georgia


    The Mediated World is the textbook of media studies we did not even know we needed, with its timeless, deep, conceptual exploration combined with fun content about everything from movies to journalism to public relations to advertising. Media historian David T. Z. Mindich has managed a masterful, critical accounting of how media have changed the very ways in which we think, communicate, and make meaning in our lives.


    — Sue Robinson, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison


    In The Mediated World, David Mindich’s approach brims with historical insight, cross-cultural awareness, theoretical sophistication, and contemporary relevance. This is a great undergraduate text for both media history and mass communications survey courses.


    — Kim Pearson, professor, The College of New Jersey


Features
Features
  • New to the Second Edition:

    • New chapter-opening vignettes connect with students in the current moment before welcoming them to consider the past.
    • New Chapter 8, “Representation and the Lives that Matter in the Media,” encourages students to think critically about which people get to be heard and which are overlooked.
    • New Chapter 13, “Hot and Cold Video Games,” critically explores a powerful media force in students’ recreational lives.
    • Expanded discussions on current cultural, political, and technological references, engaging with controversies.


    Features

    • Full color layout with photos and graphics to enrich students’ reading experience.
    • Integrated focus on representation in media reminds students of the pervasive impact of bias across society.
    • Margin keyword definitions help students develop critical vocabularies.
    • Three different feature boxes (Reflection, Application, and Now and Then) reinforce concepts and engage students’ critical thinking skills.
    • Chapter learning objectives, chapter summaries, and discussion questions reinforce historical frameworks and key concepts.

    Access ancillary materials at https://textbooks.rowman.com/mindich2e.

      • For instructors: a test bank, lecture notes and slides, and a sample syllabus.
      • For the students: chapter flashcards, a digital glossary, and videos and links.



Resources
Resources
  • FOR STUDENTS
    Accompanying the text is an open-access Companion Website designed to reinforce the main topics and help you master key vocabulary and concepts through flashcards and self-graded quizzes.
    FOR PROFESSORS
    Ancillary Materials are available for this title. For access to these professor use only materials, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com
    Instructor's Manual. For each chapter, this valuable resource provides a variety of tools such as lecture outlines, student learning objectives, discussion questions, and other resources to simplify classroom preparation.
    Test Bank. The Test Bank includes a variety of test questions and is available in either Word or PDF formats. For every chapter in the text, the Test Bank includes a complete test with a variety of question types, including multiple choice, true false, and essay formats.
    To use our Test Bank in Word or PDF, please Sign-In if you are a registered user, or Register then email us at rltextbooks@bloomsbury.com
    Lecture Notes. The Lecture Notes provide the tables and figures from the text.

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