Review of Book two-Mass Media

Title of the book; Mass Media
Author; Marsha Jones and Emma Jones
Year of Publication; 1999

Biography of author;
Marsha Jones is an experienced teacher of A-level sociology and media studies, Emma Jones is also an experienced teacher of A-level sociology. The authors are mother and daughter.

Name of publisher;
Palgrave

Summary of contents;
An introduction to sociological approaches to the mass media, combining a clear overview of traditional and more recent theories of mass media.

Contents;

1. Introduction
2. Media use
3. Histories of the media
4. Marxist and pluralist theories of the media
5. Feminism and the mass cultural debate
6. Representation 
7. Moral Panic 
8. Audiences and the effects of media
9. Politics and Media
10. Globalisation and new technologies

Read 1-3 reviews of this book, write facts you can take from the reviews;

• 'Overall there is a sense of natural opinion throughout the book'
• 'The book is too outdated and a more recent follow up has yet to be created.'
• The book doesn't seem to have taken social media into account.'
• 'The book is factual and informative.'

Does the book have a main idea or strong conclusion;

No, in my experience this book was poor with no real informative research into it, it is more opinion based more than anything which doesn't benefit me at all! This book is far too outdated for my use, considering it is nearly 20 years old, the term used in this book to describe 'new media' is now old media! Social media hadn't really been created, really, when this book was written and so didn't benefit me from reading it at all.  

Good things about the book;

• When resources were used, they were reliable. 
• It covered all aspect of traditional media.

Bad things about the book;

• It is too out of date
• Barely speaks about the internet 
• Poorly constructed with information conflicting itself.