A Dictionary of Media and Communication

by Daniel Chandler, Rod Munday

Overview

The most accessible and up-to-date dictionary of its kind, this wide-ranging A-Z covers both interpersonal and mass communication, in all their myriad forms, encompassing advertising, digital culture, journalism, new media, telecommunications, and visual culture, among many other topics. This new edition includes over 200 new complete entries and revises hundreds of others, as well as including hundreds of new cross-references. The biographical appendix has also been fully cross-referenced to the rest of the text. This dictionary is an indispensable guide for undergraduate students on degree courses in media or communication studies, and also for those taking related subjects such as film studies, visual culture, and cultural studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191057557
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	08/17/2016
Series:	Oxford Quick Reference Online
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Daniel Chandler is a faculty emeritus at Aberystwyth University, where he established the Media and Communication Studies degree in 2002. He is the author of Semiotics: The Basics (Routledge, 3rd edition 2017), which has been translated into several languages (including Korean, Farsi, Arabic, Polish, and Chinese), and he is a consultant in marketing semiotics.

Rod Munday is a lecturer in digital culture and gaming at Aberystwyth University. He has worked in television post-production since the 1980s, including jobs at advertising agencies and Greenpeace International.

Table of Contents

A-Z TextBiographical Notes