This volume is based on two international conferences held in 2013 and 2014 at Ariano Irpino, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. It contains essays by leading

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This fully revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to the range of approaches to understanding mass communication.