Dan Laughey: Key Themes in Media Theory (2007)

Key Themes in Media Theory provides a thorough and critical introduction to the key theories of media studies. It is unique in bringing together different schools of media theory into a single, comprehensive text, examining in depth the ideas of key media theorists such as Lasswell, McLuhan, Hall, Williams, Barthes, Adorno, Baudrillard and Bourdieu.

Using up-to-date case studies the book embraces media in their everyday cultural forms – music, internet, film, television, radio, newspapers and magazines – to enable a clearer view of the ‘big picture’ of media theory.

In ten succinct chapters Dan Laughey discusses a broad range of themes, issues and perspectives that inform our contemporary understanding of media production and consumption. These include:

* Behaviourism and media effects
* Feminist media theory
* Postmodernity and information society
* Political economy
* Media consumerism

Publisher Open University Press, McGraw-Hill, 2007
ISBN 0335218148, 9780335218141
Length 248 pages

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