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Media Now: Understanding Media, Culture, and Technology

By Joseph Straubhaar, Robert LaRose, Lucinda Davenport

11th Edition © 2025
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Straubhaar/Larose/Davenport's MEDIA NOW: UNDERSTANDING MEDIA, CULTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY, 11th Edition, encourages critical thinking about media, how it develops, operates, converges and impacts society. Global media environment, transformations in technology, culture and critical theory are introduced. History, theories and technical knowledge develop media literacy skills to prepare students for careers in online, interactive and traditional media. It includes new coverage of media developments, issues, policies, diversity, equity, inclusion, social media consumption, AI, COVID-19, international issues, online privacy and more. The Accrediting Council for Journalism and Mass Communication requires journalism history in the curriculum. The inclusion of history fulfills requirements for programs that cannot offer a stand-alone history course and serves as a guide for Media Literacy courses.

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Straubhaar/Larose/Davenport's MEDIA NOW: UNDERSTANDING MEDIA, CULTURE, AND TECHNOLOGY, 11th Edition, encourages critical thinking about media, how it develops, operates, converges and impacts society. Global media environment, transformations in technology, culture and critical theory are introduced. History, theories and technical knowledge develop media literacy skills to prepare students for careers in online, interactive and traditional media. It includes new coverage of media developments, issues, policies, diversity, equity, inclusion, social media consumption, AI, COVID-19, international issues, online privacy and more. The Accrediting Council for Journalism and Mass Communication requires journalism history in the curriculum. The inclusion of history fulfills requirements for programs that cannot offer a stand-alone history course and serves as a guide for Media Literacy courses.

This edition illustrates trends through recent issues and events happening around the world and it discusses impacts on and influences from diversity, equity and inclusion as population demographics change.

Figures: Updated with the latest data, vibrant visuals are integrated throughout capture key trends and statistics in an accessible and graphically appealing style.

Media Literacy: Included within each media chapter, Media Literacy sections focus on key issues regarding the impact of media on culture and society, encouraging students to think critically and analyze issues related to their own consumption of media. This edition emphasizes privacy issues and changes in social media patterns that affect consumers.

Featured Boxes: Three types of boxes appear in the text, each designed to target specific issues and pique students' interest: Media and Culture highlights cultural issues in the media, Technology Demystified clearly explains technological information and Your Media Career guides readers to "hot spots" in media industries.

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Cover Page
Title Page
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Preface
Part One. Media and the Information Age
Part Two. The Media
Part Three. Media Issues
References

Part One. Media and the Information Age

Chapter 1. The Changing Media
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The Media in Our Lives ↗
Media in a Changing World ↗
Merging Technologies ↗
Changing Industries ↗
Changing Lifestyles ↗
Shifting Regulations ↗
Rising Social Issues ↗
Changing Media throughout History ↗
Pre-Agricultural Society ↗
Agricultural Society ↗
Industrial Society ↗
Information Society ↗
After the Information Society ↗
Digital Media Evolution ↗
Changing Conceptions of the Media ↗
The SMCR Model ↗
Interactive Media ↗
Types of Communication ↗
What Are the Media Now? ↗
Summary & Review ↗
Thinking Critically about the Media ↗
Key Terms ↗
Chapter 2. Media and Society
Understanding the Media
Media Economics
Mass Production, Mass Distribution, Mass Audiences
Digital Media Economics
The Benefits of Competition
Media Monopolies
The Profit Motive
How Media Make Money
From Mass Markets to Market Segments
From Mass Market Segments to Social Media
Critical Studies
Political Economy
Feminist Studies
Ethnic Media Studies
Media Criticism
Diffusion of Innovations
Why Do Innovations Succeed?
How Do Innovations Spread?
What Are the Media’s Functions?
Surveillance
Media and Public Opinion
Gatekeeping
Agenda Setting
Framing
Technological Determinism
The Medium Is the Message
Technology as Dominant Social Force
Media Drive Culture
Summary & Review
Thinking Critically about the Media
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