Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences, and communication studies. Researchers may also develop and employ theories and methods from disciplines including cultural studies, rhetoric (including digital rhetoric), philosophy, literary theory, psychology, political science, political economy, economics, sociology, anthropology, social theory, art history and criticism, film theory, feminist theory, and information theory.
Anthropology of media
Journalism
Media ecology
Mass media
Media culture
Mass communication
Multimedia literacy
Transparency (humanities)
Media literacy
Media education
Media psychology
Harold Innis's time- and space-bias
Market for loyalties theory
Marshall McLuhan's tetrad of media effects
Mediatization (media)
Media-system dependency
Media echo chamber
Narcotizing dysfunction
Social aspects of television
Sociology
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
