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Media Studies: The Basics book cover

3rd Edition

Media Studies: The Basics

By Claire Pollard, Julian McDougall Copyright 2026
214 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Fully updated and revised, the third edition of Media Studies: The Basics is the ideal guide to the changing landscape of media and Media Studies. There have been seismic shifts in what constitutes (the) media in recent years with technological advances ushering in whole new categories of producers, consumers and modes of delivery. This has been reflected in the way media is studied with new... Read more

Introduction to the Third Edition

1 Studying Media

2 Doing Theory with Media

3 Powerful Media

4 Evolving Media

5 Troubling Media

6 Making Media

Biography

Claire Pollard was a secondary school teacher for 16 years. She now works as a media education consultant at The English and Media Centre where she edits MediaMagazine and leads the Secondary PGCE Media course at Goldsmiths University of London.

Julian McDougall is Professor in Media and Education, Principal Fellow of Advance HE and Programme Leader for the Professional Doctorate (Ed D) in Creative and Media Education at Bournemouth University. He is Chair of the Media and Information Literacy Alliance and co-editor of the Journal of Media Literacy Education and Routledge Research in Media Literacy and Education.

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