Laurie Ouellette is jointly appointed as Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Lifestyle TV (2016) co-editor (with Jonathan Gray) of Keywords in Media Studies (2017), co-author of Better Living Through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship (2008), author of Viewers Like You? How Public Television Failed the People (2002), co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2009), editor of The Media Studies Reader (2012), and editor of A Companion to Reality Television (2014).Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2010), Fandom, Second Edition (2017), Keywords for Media Studies (2017), and Satire TV (2009), as well as Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz), and A Companion to Media Authorship (with Derek Johnson).

"Written by many of the key scholars in media studies, this book is a wonderful introduction to the history, circulation, and meaning of concepts in the field. A useful, thorough, and compelling primer for anyone interested media criticism today." - Lynn Spigel,Northwestern University "Ouellette and Grays lexicon of media terms frames complicated constructs in clear and succinct descriptions that tend to render obscure terms accessible to students studying media theory." (Choice) "[Keywords for Media Studies] is an excellent and comprehensive reference point for both media studies scholars and students." (European Journal of Communication)

Laurie Ouellette is jointly appointed as Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Lifestyle TV (2016) co-editor (with Jonathan Gray) of Keywords in Media Studies (2017), co-author of Better Living Through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship (2008), author of Viewers Like You? How Public Television Failed the People (2002), co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2009), editor of The Media Studies Reader (2012), and editor of A Companion to Reality Television (2014).Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2010), Fandom, Second Edition (2017), Keywords for Media Studies (2017), and Satire TV (2009), as well as Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz), and A Companion to Media Authorship (with Derek Johnson).

"Written by many of the key scholars in media studies, this book is a wonderful introduction to the history, circulation, and meaning of concepts in the field. A useful, thorough, and compelling primer for anyone interested media criticism today." - Lynn Spigel,Northwestern University "Ouellette and Grays lexicon of media terms frames complicated constructs in clear and succinct descriptions that tend to render obscure terms accessible to students studying media theory." (Choice) "[Keywords for Media Studies] is an excellent and comprehensive reference point for both media studies scholars and students." (European Journal of Communication)

Laurie Ouellette is jointly appointed as Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. She is the author of Lifestyle TV (2016) co-editor (with Jonathan Gray) of Keywords in Media Studies (2017), co-author of Better Living Through Reality TV: Television and Post-Welfare Citizenship (2008), author of Viewers Like You? How Public Television Failed the People (2002), co-editor of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2009), editor of The Media Studies Reader (2012), and editor of A Companion to Reality Television (2014).Jonathan Gray is Hamel Family Distinguished Chair in Communication Arts, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and author and editor of numerous books, including Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (2010), Fandom, Second Edition (2017), Keywords for Media Studies (2017), and Satire TV (2009), as well as Television Studies (with Amanda D. Lotz), and A Companion to Media Authorship (with Derek Johnson).

"Written by many of the key scholars in media studies, this book is a wonderful introduction to the history, circulation, and meaning of concepts in the field. A useful, thorough, and compelling primer for anyone interested media criticism today." - Lynn Spigel,Northwestern University "Ouellette and Grays lexicon of media terms frames complicated constructs in clear and succinct descriptions that tend to render obscure terms accessible to students studying media theory." (Choice) "[Keywords for Media Studies] is an excellent and comprehensive reference point for both media studies scholars and students." (European Journal of Communication)