Customer Reviews

Dynamics of Mass Communication: Media in the Digital Age with Media World CD ROM and PowerWeb

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If you have to get this book for class, be prepared for a long, dull read. I enjoyed the history sections for each medium, but the book tries very hard to get 20 pages per chapter, and spends a lot of time defining things that the average college student would already know. I have not used the dvd, so unfortunately I don't know if that's any easier than reading the chapters.

I had to read The Dynamics of Mass Communication for my Intro to Electronic Media course. Being a public relations major, I thought Dominick would clearly show the connections the media has with one another. If I were a student learning journalism, radio, or broadcasting, I would have been able to see how the communication world was connected. However, there was only one chapter on advertising and another on public relations. I was really disappointed because I was hoping to futher understand how each sector of communication interact with one another. However, Dominick does present a clear history of the developments in the communication world. Also, the online quizzes hardley follow the material covered in the textbook. All in all, I did not like this textbook.

Good book for college. Only used if a few times. Only buy it if you need to. If you dont need it, then dont buy it. You wont use it after your course.

I was required to buy this book for my Journalism 1 class in college. It has a great online student center and the material covers a wide variety of topics. I thought this book was more interesting than most of the textbooks I have had to buy for school. It also comes with a CD-Rom that enhances the material.

I was sent a book from 1983. I bought this book based off of the USB which must be wrong because the book I needed was published in 2009.

Great textbook. It is extremely informative and useful in the classroom as well as outside of it; sort of like a handbook for the media world around us. You know those college textbooks you get rid of and the ones you keep? Yep; this book is one of the books I'll be keeping.

The book covered many concepts of the world of communications. I found the text to be rather slow, but I was able to continue to the end, not only for the course I bought it for, but because I am interested in the field. It is a college textbook, so the organization is a bit more formal and less reader friendly, but it has a great deal of interesting information.

I purchased this book for a college class and when it arrived was in great condition. All the pages were in great shape, just as described. Happy with my purchase.

Received it in great time, the book is in excellent condition. Over all, i'm very pleased with my purchase!

This book arrived right on time cause I tried to go forward with the class without the book. Easy to navigate.