Media/Impact: An Introduction to Mass Media by Shirley Biagi (California State University, Sacramento)
MEDIA/IMPACT: AN INTRODUCTION TO MASS MEDIA, Ninth Edition, is designed to be the core text for the introductory mass media course--often titled Introduction to Mass Communication, Mass Media Survey, or Media in Society. Students often take this course as the initial introductory course in a College of Communication, School of Journalism, or Department of Radio-TV-Film, or Mass Communication. Students may take it as a required course for the communication major or as a general education elective.