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Volume I: Media History and the Foundations of Media Studies: John Nerone

PART 1: Approaches

PART 2: Moments

PART 3: Foundations

Volume II: Media Production: Vicki Mayer

PART 1: Production Regimes and Infrastructures

PART 2: The Cultural Industries and the Organization of Production

PART 3: Product and Content Flows

PART 4: Production Work and Practices

PART 5: Production Cultures

PART 6: The Ethics of Production

Volume III: Content and Representation: Sharon R. Mazzarella

PART 1: Persuasion and Information

PART 2: Entertainment

PART 3: Interaction and Performance

Volume IV: Audience and Interpretation: Radhika Parameswaran

PART 1: Expanding the Horizons of Audience Studies

PART 2: Practicing Reflexivity in and out of the Field

PART 3: Finding and Engaging Global Audiences

PART 4: Comprehending Online Audiences 

PART 5: Empowering Audiences as Citizens

Volume V: Media Effects/Media Psychology: Erica Scharrer

PART 1: Theories and Processes/Processing

PART 2: Evidence of Effects

PART 3: The Young Audience

Volume VI: Media Studies Futures: Kelly Gates

PART 1: The Future Of Media Studies: Theory, Methods, Pedagogy

PART 2: Social and Mobile Media Futures

PART 3: Industry Futures

PART 4: Journalism and Media Policy Futures

PART 5: Interactivity, Affect, and the Future of Media Subjectivities

PART 6: Whose Future? Children, Youth Cultures, and Digital Media

PART 7: What Future? Or, The Unsustainable Present

“Regarding the content, I found the essays to be well written, engaging and to offer a broad insight into the different theories and methodologies that have influenced the development of media studies.”  (Reference Reviews, 1 March 2014)

“Summing Up: Recommended. Libraries serving upper-division undergraduates and above in media.”  (Choice, 1 July 2013)

“The scope, size, and price of this set make it most appropriate for academic libraries that support graduate programs in media studies, journalism, and communications.”  (Booklist, 1 March 2013)

“This set encourages the reader to approach media studies from a wide range of contexts. Students will benefit from exposure to an assortment of viewpoints in order to develop their own theories. VERDICT A strong resource, recommended for academic libraries that support media programs.”  (Library Journal, 1 January 2013)

“Encyclopedias can be dry. But Angharad Valdivia has done something remarkable: orchestrated essays from a huge number of voices into an enticing collection of volumes. A landmark publication for global media studies.”
- Nick Couldry, Professor of Media and Communications, University of London

“An extraordinary achievement for a field buffeted by multitudinous forces -- balanced, focused on past, present, possible futures; buttressed by attentions to both foundational and cutting edge research and theory.”
- Brenda L Dervin, Research, Design, and Training Consultant

"Systematic and expert thematic coverage across a wide field of knowledge, distinguished by innovation and imagination. It invites voyages of discovery for old as well as new hands as much as it serves mundane purposes of reference."
- Denis McQuail, Emeritus Professor, University of Amsterdam