The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies brings together over 200 critical essays to redraw the boundaries of this rapidly evolving and dynamically complex area. Global in scope, wide-ranging in its inclusion of topics, and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars, this is the definitive resource for the field. * Includes more than 200 essays written by over 230 leading and emerging scholars from across the globe * Arranged across 7 thematic volumes edited by an international team of expert scholars * Accessible volume introductions provide overviews of key themes * The most definitive resource available in this complex, heterogeneous, multi-methodological and multi-theoretical interdisciplinary field * Explores media as it is being practiced, produced, and analyzed in Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Europe * All volumes pay close attention to issues of gender and ethnicity so necessary to understanding contemporary media * Probes the many dimensions of the subject: history, production, content, audiences, effects, and futures

Angharad N. Valdivia is a Research Professor of Communications and Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the head of the Media and Cinema Studies Department, Interim Director of the Institute of Communications Research, and Editor-in-chief of Communication Theory. Her research and teaching focuses on transnational popular culture studies, with special attention to issues of gender and ethnicity. She has published extensively on issues of transnational Latina Studies, exploring the tension between agency and structure in media production and consumption.