"""Key Themes in Media Theory" is wonderfully wide-ranging and deservedly destined to become a key text for students of Media Studies."
Professor John Storey, University of Sunderland, UK"

""The very best text books are not just summaries of complex ideas for a student audience or an introduction to a critical canon; the very best add something to the canon they reflect upon, and Dan Laughey's "Key Themes in Media Theory" is one such book. It] is not a means to an end, as many such books can be. Rather it is a motivational primer, and one that should send both students and teachers...