Media Environments

<p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Media Environments: Using Movies and Texts to Critique Media and Society</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> uses popular film as a gateway to critical readings encouraging students to think creatively and critically about media society technology and popular culture.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The text explores media in their totality and provides models and theories for interrogating many universal themes that span media technology and planetary civilization. Using popular films about media as lead-ins students are introduced to the works of well-known thinkers and writers such as Marshall McLuhan Charlton D. McIlwain Shoshanna Zuboff Julia Hildebrand Neil deGrasse Tyson Devon Powers Antonio Lopez and many others. Chapters span interconnected topics including:</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Memes</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Capitalism and Consumerism</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Science and Our Place in the Universe</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Networks</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Freedom and Protest</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Pseudoscience and Conspiracy</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Spectacle</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Ecology and the Anthropocene</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Celebrity and Superheroes  </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Hyperreality</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Social-Mobile Media</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>New Concepts of Hot and Cool Media    </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The fourth edition features 19 new readings that explore Afrofuturism in </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Black Panther Avatar </em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>and global media ecosystems Hollywood and climate change </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Blade Runner 2049 </em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>and future earth scenarios Avengers and environmental advocacy #BlackLivesMatter and Black movements in digital culture and the International Dark Sky movement as a radical media-tech philosophy. Intellectually rigorous and thematically diverse </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Media Environments</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> is ideal for courses and programs in media and/or communication studies.</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </strong></p>