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THE CONTRIBUTORS’ NAMES: LEN MASTERMAN
Len Masterman, an English education professor at the University of
Nottingham in England. His book, Teaching the Media provided a
framework for critically analyzing news and entertainment media.
Len's profound insights into how media operate as a global system
and how we can systematically understand media were
groundbreaking, and provided a transferrable knowledge
base for the discipline.
As Len himself said, "Once you accept
as a fundamental premise that you
are dealing not so much with
reflections of reality but with a
symbolic system, then a whole set of
satellite questions immediately
present themselves. "
Len devoted his career to exploring
the media world.
His Eighteen Basic Principles for media education stand as relevant
today as when he wrote them in 1989. /an e-book/.
