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COMMUNICATION,
CULTURAL AND MEDIA

STUDIES: THE KEY CONCEPTS

This book provides a topical and authoritative guide to Communica-
tion, Cultural and Media Studies. It brings together in an accessible
form some of the most important concepts that you will need, and
shows how they have been - or might be - used. This third edition of
the classic text Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies
forms an up-to-date, multi-disciplinary explanation and assessment of
the key concepts and new terms that you will encounter in your
studies, from `anti-globalisation' to `reality TV', from `celebrity' to
`tech-wreck'.

This new edition includes:
. Over 70 new entries,
. Most entries revised, rewritten and updated,
. Coverage of recent developments in the field,
. Coverage of new interactive media and the `new economy',
. An extensive bibliography to aid further study.
John Hartley is Professor and Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty
at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. He is author of
many books and articles on television, journalism and cultural studies.
His mostrecentbooks are: Popular Reality (1996), Uses of Television
(1999), The Indigenous Public Sphere, with Alan McKee (2000),
American Cultural Studies: A Reader, edited with Roberta E. Pearson
(2000) and A Short History of Cultural Studies (2003).