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Article: Media & Society: A Critical Perspective/Mass Communication: Living in a Media World

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* Berger, Arthur Asa (2003). Media & Society: A Critical Perspective. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher, pp. 256.

* Hanson, Ralph (2004). Mass Communication: Living in a Media World. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Ralph Hanson begins his book Mass Communication: Living in a Media World with an apt metaphor to describe the challenge facing scholars who write about media and society today. He employs Jon Krakauer's attempt to experience and write about climbing Mount Everest with other journalists and the ensuing deaths of eight climbers as an entrypoint to discuss the complexities and consequences of living in a media world.

Climbing Mount Everest strikes me as an appropriate way ...

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