"Critical Media Studies continues to define the field of media studies, offering innovative approaches that enable readers to explore the modern media landscape from a wide variety of perspectives. Integrating foundational theory and contemporary research, this groundbreaking text offers the most comprehensive set of analytical approaches currently available. Twelve critical perspectives--pragmatic, rhetorical, sociological, erotic, ecological, and others--enable readers to assess and evaluate the social and cultural consequences of contemporary media in their daily lives. This new fourth edition includes up-to-date content that reflects the current developments and cutting-edge research in the field, including an expanded focus on feminist and queer analysis. Responding to the way in which technology has rapidly infiltrated every part of our lives, this new edition includes more reflection on the dominance of the digital landscape in all forms of media, as well as a new category on Technology and History' examining media technologies in historical context before students learn to critically analyze them. Critical Media Studies, 4th Edition is the ideal resource for undergraduate students in media studies, cultural studies, popular culture, and communication, graduate students new to critical perspectives on the media, and scholars in the field."--