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PREFACE TO THE THIRD

EDITION

This is the third edition of a book first published in the early 1980s,
followed by an enlarged and revised edition in the 1990s. It has
remained in print and in demand for all of the intervening time. It has
also been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Korean and Bahasa
Malaysian.
Nowhere it is again, spruced up for a new century. For this edition
it has been revised from top to bottom, has come under single
authorship, with crucial input from Martin Montgomery, Elinor
Rennie and Marc Brennan, and it has been redesigned. Some concepts
survive from earlier editions, but for the most part this is an entirely
newwork. The entries now include many that relate to new
interactive media and the ‘neweconomy’, developments that were not
even on the horizon when the first edition was published.
The first edition was published in 1982 with the title Key Concepts
in Communication Studies. The second edition was Key Concepts in
Communication and Cultural Studies, published in 1994. This edition is
called Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts, the
change in form of the title reflecting this volume’s alignment with
Routledge’s ‘Key Guides’, of which it was the prototype. Cultural and
media studies have also been successively added, in recognition of their
importance both within these covers and in the world.

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