The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

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.

Volume I: Media History and the Foundations of Media Studies: John Nerone PART 1: Approaches PART 2: Moments PART 3: Foundations Volume II: Media Production: Vicki Mayer PART 1: Production Regimes and Infrastructures PART 2: The Cultural Industries and the Organization of Production PART 3: Product and Content Flows PART 4: Production Work and Practices PART 5: Production Cultures PART 6: The Ethics of Production Volume III: Content and Representation: Sharon R. Mazzarella PART 1: Persuasion and Information PART 2: Entertainment PART 3: Interaction and Performance Volume IV: Audience and Interpretation: Radhika Parameswaran PART 1: Expanding the Horizons of Audience Studies PART 2: Practicing Reflexivity in and out of the Field PART 3: Finding and Engaging Global Audiences PART 4: Comprehending Online Audiences PART 5: Empowering Audiences as Citizens Volume V: Media Effects/Media Psychology: Erica Scharrer PART 1: Theories and Processes/Processing PART 2: Evidence of Effects PART 3: The Young Audience Volume VI: Media Studies Futures: Kelly Gates PART 1: The Future Of Media Studies: Theory, Methods, Pedagogy PART 2: Social and Mobile Media Futures PART 3: Industry Futures PART 4: Journalism and Media Policy Futures PART 5: Interactivity, Affect, and the Future of Media Subjectivities PART 6: Whose Future? Children, Youth Cultures, and Digital Media PART 7: What Future? Or, The Unsustainable Present