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Media today increasingly includes a wider and wider range of concepts, products, services and institutions. The very definitions of medium/media and their study continue to encompass more of human experience and is in a constant state of flux. What are media today? How is media studies evolving? How have technologies transformed communication and media theory, and informed praxis? What are some of the futures of media?

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  4. Craig, Robert T. (series ed.) (2008–20), ICA Handbook Series, International Communication Association and Routledge, https://www.routledge.com/ICA-Handbook-Series/book-series/ICAHAND. Accessed 18 June 2020.
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  32. Scolari, Carlos A. (2009), ‘Transmedia storytelling: Implicit consumers, narrative worlds, and branding in contemporary media production’, International Journal of Communication, 3:21, pp. 586–606.
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  33. Sullivan, John L. (2019), Media Audiences: Effects, Users, Institutions, and Power, 2nd ed., Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
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