This comprehensive collection introduces and contextualizes media studies' most influential texts and thinkers, from early 20th century mass communication to the first stages of digital culture in the 21st century.

Stina Bengtsson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University. Her research covers media audiences, practices and ethics, and how people coexist with media technologies in everyday life. She has published several books and articles in journals such as Communication Theory, Media, Culture and Society and Journalism.

Staffan Ericson is Associate Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University. He has previously co-edited special sections in the International Journal of Communications and Media War and Conflict. He is currently a participant in the project A Sea of Data: Mediated Temporalities of the Baltic Sea.

Fredrik Stiernstedt is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University. His research covers media industries, media policy, media history and media trust. Recent publications include Prison Media: Incarceration and the Infrastructures of Work and Technology (with Anne Kaun) and The Future of the Nordic Media Model: A Digital Media Welfare State? (with Peter Jakobsson and Johan Lindell).