Welcome to our Media Studies publishing program.
Take a look inside at teaching and learning tools that:

  • Reflect our high scholarly standards
  • Speak effectively to today's college students
  • Represent the most current pedagogical trends

Browse our titles for Media Studies courses by selecting from the topic links below.

Cultural Studies

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Slayer Slang

A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon
Michael Adams
ISBN13: 9780195175998ISBN10: 0195175999 Paperback, 320 pages
Sep 2004,  In Stock
Have a question about slang and youth culture? Just ask a vampire slayer
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Folklore, Cultural Performances, and Popular Entertainments

A Communications-centered Handbook
Edited by Richard Bauman
ISBN13: 9780195069204ISBN10: 019506920X Paperback, 336 pages
Apr 1992,  In Stock

Introduction to Mass Media

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Converging Media

A New Introduction to Mass Communication
Second Edition
John V. Pavlik and Shawn McIntosh
ISBN13: 9780195379105ISBN10: 0195379101 Paperback, 544 pages
Jan 2010,  Not Yet Published
A new introduction to Mass Communication, built from the ground up, fully incorporating digital media and the phenomenon of convergence
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Defining Media Studies

Reflections on the Future of the Field
Edited by Mark Levy and Michael Gurevitch
ISBN13: 9780195087888ISBN10: 0195087887 Paperback, 448 pages
May 1994,  In Stock

International Media Studies

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The Media Were American

U.S. Mass Media in Decline
Jeremy Tunstall
ISBN13: 9780195181470ISBN10: 0195181476 Paperback, 480 pages
Jan 2007,  In Stock
Chronicles the massive changes that have taken place in the media over the past forty years.

Media & Society

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Converging Media

A New Introduction to Mass Communication
Second Edition
John V. Pavlik and Shawn McIntosh
ISBN13: 9780195379105ISBN10: 0195379101 Paperback, 544 pages
Jan 2010,  Not Yet Published
A new introduction to Mass Communication, built from the ground up, fully incorporating digital media and the phenomenon of convergence
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Media and Society

An Introduction
Fourth Edition
Michael O'Shaughnessy and Jane Stadler
ISBN13: 9780195562408ISBN10: 0195562402 Paperback, 536 pages
Feb 2009,  In Stock
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New Media Worlds

Challenges for Convergence
Virginia Nightingale and Tim Dwyer
ISBN13: 9780195558364ISBN10: 0195558367 Paperback, 368 pages
Nov 2007,  In Stock
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The Media Were American

U.S. Mass Media in Decline
Jeremy Tunstall
ISBN13: 9780195181470ISBN10: 0195181476 Paperback, 480 pages
Jan 2007,  In Stock
Chronicles the massive changes that have taken place in the media over the past forty years.
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A History of News

Third Edition
Mitchell Stephens
ISBN13: 9780195189919ISBN10: 0195189914 Paperback, 384 pages
Aug 2006,  In Stock
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Who Controls the Internet?

Illusions of a Borderless World
Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu
ISBN13: 9780195152661ISBN10: 0195152662 Hardback, 238 pages
Feb 2006,  In Stock
A critical look at the history and future of the Internet
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Internet Politics

States, Citizens, and New Communication Technologies
Andrew Chadwick
ISBN13: 9780195177732ISBN10: 0195177738 Paperback, 400 pages
Feb 2006,  In Stock
This major new work provides the first comprehensive overview of Internet politics.
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Interpersonal Divide

The Search for Community in a Technological Age
Michael Bugeja
ISBN13: 9780195173390ISBN10: 0195173392 Paperback, 240 pages
Nov 2004,  In Stock
Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age seeks to answer the question: have media and technology created a social gap, eroding our sense of community?
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Democracy and the News

Herbert J. Gans
ISBN13: 9780195173277ISBN10: 0195173279 Paperback, 192 pages
Mar 2004,  In Stock
The author of the classic Deciding What's News argues that democracy is slipping away from citizens and suggests how journalists can help restore it.
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The Press Effect

Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World
Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman
ISBN13: 9780195173291ISBN10: 0195173295 Paperback, 240 pages
Feb 2004,  In Stock
A wide-ranging critique of the press and its role in American democracy
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American Cultural Studies

A Reader
Edited by John Hartley and Roberta E. Pearson
With Eva Vieth
ISBN13: 9780198742548ISBN10: 0198742541 Paperback, 456 pages
Jul 2000,  In Stock
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Violence Against the Press

Policing the Public Sphere in U.S. History
John Nerone
ISBN13: 9780195086980ISBN10: 0195086988 Paperback, 320 pages
Feb 1994,  In Stock
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Censorship

The Knot that Binds Power and Knowledge
Sue Curry Jansen
ISBN13: 9780195069068ISBN10: 0195069064 Paperback, 288 pages
Feb 1991,  In Stock
Challenging conventional thought, Jansen aruges that censorship is as much a feature of liberal, market societies as it is of totalitarianisms.

Visual Culture & Communication

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Practices of Looking

An Introduction to Visual Culture
Second Edition
Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright
ISBN13: 9780195314403ISBN10: 0195314409 Paperback, 496 pages
Nov 2008,  In Stock
Beautifully designed and now in a larger format and in full color throughout, this leading text is an invaluable guide to understanding the complexities, contradictions, and pleasures of the visual world.