Media Literacy and Semiotics (Semiotics and Popular Culture)

Media Literacy and Semiotics provides helpful tools to guide readers to think critically about the meanings and effects of the media they are exposed to on a daily basis. In this comprehensive book, a basic model of semiotic logic is applied to a variety of media studies to promote critical thinking and media literacy. Elliot Gaines systematically analyzes mass-mediated products and texts, and shows how basic meaning structures underlie everything from The Daily Show to television documentaries to infotainment.