Fantastically up-to-date, with a format that's very easy to read, vocabulary that's easy to follow, and great examples of the main points. As a communication major, I thoroughly enjoy reading it. My only critique is that some chapters run longer than 25 pages, and this is overkill, but compared to most textbooks, Media & Culture 8, 2013 update, is one of the best.

I just purchased the download version of this Norton product and everything went well. Yes, this is a 15-day free trial download, but you are purchasing an activation code (Product Key) as well, and you'll need to enter that Product Key to activate the year-long subscription.

I had been a quicken user from the mid ninety's until 2009 or over 10 years and purchased the upgrades every two to three years. I found it to be a good program for check book entries, reconciling and categorizing for budgets. However, it left a lot to be desired to manage investments and it is late to the party to offer cloud service for mobile devices. I have found other Free Apps that are far superior to Quicken and believe it has lost its luster for my purposes. I only chose to purchase Quicken 2014 to have the ability to print reports but have not seen that a reason enough to suffer through its quirky investment deficiencies and the inability to download investment transactions I easily can access with the Free Apps I use. I believe Intuit has hampered Quicken's desire to listen to its user's and it's lack of customer service (without paying) rank it the worst I have experienced in years. Intuit is just impossible to work with. I plan to return this product.