The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies, 7 Volume Set

Truly global in scope and covering a diverse range of topics, The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies provides the definitive resource for students, scholars, and faculty in this rapidly evolving and dynamically complex field. The Encyclopedia brings together cutting–edge scholarship from over 230 contributors, arranged thematically across 7 volumes edited by an international team of the world′s best scholars and teachers.  The volumes explore the history and foundations of the field; production; content and representation; audience and interpretation; media effects and cognition; and the future of the field. Each opens with an accessible introduction that also serves as a stand–alone overview of the particular theme. Reflecting the diversity of the field, the full breadth of Media Studies’ quantitative and qualitative methodologies is covered within more than 200 essays, including the important contributions made by the social scientific paradigm in terms of effects and cognition; humanistic and historical approaches; and the Political Economic paradigm.  Rather than pitting these approaches against each other, the encyclopedia includes them in productive conversation with each other and creates a new dimension of understanding. Chapters offer in–depth explorations of the historical background and recent developments, problems and challenges, and future opportunities for research that have evolved within the discipline. The Encyclopediais also available online on Wiley Online Library, offering you 24/7 access, downloadable chapters, and powerful browsing and searching functionality. Visit www.encyclopediaofmediastudies.com .

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 Volume VII: Research Methods in Media Studies PART 1: Setting up the Stage PART 2: Working with People PART 3: Working with Texts PART 4: Virtual Challenges Interdisciplinary and Mixed Method Research

Angharad N. Valdivia is a Research Professor of Communications and Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She is also the head of the Media and Cinema Studies Department, Interim Director of the Institute of Communications Research , and Editor–in–chief of Communication Theory.  Her research and teaching focuses on transnational popular culture studies, with special attention to issues of gender and ethnicity.  She has published extensively on issues of transnational Latina Studies, exploring the tension between agency and structure in media production and consumption.