Media Journal is a reader containing 40 selections focusing on cultural studies, the media, and popular culture. The authors have organized the book by asking students to do three things: to keep media journals in which they reflect on the uses they make of the voices and images of popular culture, to read and respond to the work of other media critics, and to try their hands at writing media criticism themselves. Readings are drawn from a wide range of academic and nonacademic writings and are selected for their liveliness, contemporaneity, and insight. Media Journal will help students see the relationship between the new academic interest in “cultural studies” and their own perspectives and concerns.