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Revealing the powerful ways that media shapes us and the world around us, this text challenges students to be active curators of their own media lives. The second edition of this full-color interdisciplinary book uses contemporary examples as entry points for history and theory and includes new chapters on representation in media and on video games.

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David Mindich brilliantly connects past and present, theoretical and practical, to help readers navigate a vast and ever-changing media environment and better understand how it impacts their lives. The Mediated World is a lively and powerful introduction to media literacy. --Janice Hume, Professor and Journalism Department Head, University of Georgia In The Mediated World, David Mindich's approach brims with historical insight, cross-cultural awareness, theoretical sophistication, and contemporary relevance. This is a great undergraduate text for both media history and mass communications survey courses. --Kim Pearson, professor, The College of New Jersey The Mediated World is the textbook of media studies we did not even know we needed, with its timeless, deep, conceptual exploration combined with fun content about everything from movies to journalism to public relations to advertising. Media historian David T. Z. Mindich has managed a masterful, critical accounting of how media have changed the very ways in which we think, communicate, and make meaning in our lives. --Sue Robinson, Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor of Journalism, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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David T. Z. Mindich is the chair of the journalism department at the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. Before becoming a professor, Mindich worked as an assignment editor for CNN; he has written articles for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Wilson Quarterly, Columbia Journalism Review and other publications.

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