The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

Media studies, which first emerged as a discipline in the UK and the US in the 1950-1960s, has grown to become a large and interdisciplinary field of study. In today's digital environment, the subject continues to be significant as increasingly, we conduct our daily lives through a number of media networks and technologies. Academic institutions have begun to recognise that media studies, which for some years struggled to be taken seriously as a subject worthy of academic study, is highly relevant and it is now taught at a large number of institutions in the UK and around the world. The...