A companion to media studies / edited by Angharad N. Valdivia.

Feminist media perspectives / Margaret Gallagher -- New horizons for communication theory in the new media age / Denis McQuail -- From modernization to participation: the past and future of development communications in media studies / Robert Huesca -- Tensions between popular and alternative music: REM as an artist-intellectual / Robert Sloane -- Approaches to media history / John Nerone -- Ethical issues in media production / Sharon L. Bracci -- Digital capitalism: a status report on the corporate commonwealth of information / Dan Schiller -- Media production: individuals, organizations, institutions / James S. Ettema and D.Charles Whitney -- From the playboy to the hustler: class, race, and the marketing of masculinity / Gail Dines and Elizabeth R. Perea -- Selling survivor: the use of TV news to promote entertainment / Matthew P. McAllister -- Constructing youth: media, youth and the politics of representation / Sharon R. Mazzarella --The less space we take, the more powerful we'll be: how advertising use