Böcker av Denis Mcquail

A new edition of the seminal textbook in media and mass communication. Denis McQuail's classic book has been revised and updated by Mark Deuze to reflect the contemporary media landscape and to speak to needs of today's media students.

A major new statement on the role of journalism in democracy from one of media and communication's leading thinkers. This textbook is the perfect answer to the how and why of journalism. It is crucial reading for any student of media studies, communication studies and journalism.

Denis McQuail provides a coherent and succinct account of the concept of `media audience' in terms of its history and its place in present-day media theory and research. McQuail describes and explains the main types of audience and the main traditions and fields of audience research.

Presents the main existing models of the whole of parts of the mass communications process which have been developed during the last thirty years, providing brief descriptions of the most significant concepts and ideas in the study of mass communication, using graphic and verbal models.

Important and recommended for good communications collections - this will be widely used and widely cited' - ChoiceThis major text by the author of Mass Communication Theory offers a comprehensive analysis of the assessment of mass media performance in all aspects - economic, social, aesthetic and moral.