Potter, W. James.

Media literacy / W. James Potter, University of California, Santa Barbara. - 8th ed. - Los Angeles : SAGE, 2016. - xxiii,546 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Introduction -- Why increase media literacy? -- Media literacy approach -- Part II: Audience -- Individual perspective on audience -- Industry perspective on audience -- Children as a special audience -- Part III: Industry -- Development of the mass media industried -- Economic perspective -- Part IV: Content -- Media content and reality -- News -- Entertainment -- Advertising -- Interactive media -- Part V: Effects -- Broadening our perspective on media effects -- How does the effects process work? -- Part VI: Confornting the issues -- Who owns and controls the mass media? -- Privacy -- Piracy -- Media violence -- Sports -- Part VII: The springboard -- Helping yourself and others to increase media literacy.

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Media literacy.

P96.M4 / P68 2014

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