Media, Society, Culture, and You

edited and adapted by

Katie Wheeler, MA Communication and Jessica Mehring, MA Communication

This edition of Media, Society, Culture, and You was updated by the PPSC Communication Department at Pikes Peak State College in 2026. COM 1300 Media, Society, Culture, and You by PPSC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

This reading was originally adopted and adapted from Media, Society, Culture and You by Mark Poepsel licensed under CC BY 40., and Understanding Media and Culture by University of Minnesota licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, and has been remixed with supplementary material and adapted for Pikes Peak State College. 

Cover image “Old Compton Street by Mark Hayward on Unsplash.