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Cultural Studies by Chris Rojek 9780745636849
£16.18This lively and assured book provides a concise and authoritative critical guide to Cultural Studies, using discussion of representative texts and concrete examples from popular culture. As such, it achieves a novel and accessible account of the origins... -
Doing Research on Women's Communication: Perspectives on Theory and Method by Kathryn Carter 9780893914837
£83.24A critique of conventional approaches to communication research, the authors argue that the impact of gender on research practives has been ignored. By exploring gender issues, and conducting applied research in the areas of mass and interpersonal... -
Organizational Life on Television by Leah Vande Berg 9780893915674
£48.28What kinds of industries, occupations, and organizational behaviors have been presented on prime time television? This is the first full-length volume to answer this question and summarize quantitative and qualitative studies on the portrayal of... -
The Information Dilemma: A Critical Analysis of Information Pricing and the Fees Controversy by Harry M. Kibirige 9780313233814
£65.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313233814Author Harry M. KibirigeFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Language Universals and Variation by Mengistu Amberber 9780275976828
£83.64Issues addressed in this contributed volume include lexical semantics, morphosyntax, and phonology based on the broad theme of formal approaches to language universals and variation. Aspects of natural language variation are investigated from a formal... -
Managing Communication Processes: From Planning to Crisis Response by E. W. Brody 9780275934682
£39.49This text for communications specialists marks a departure from earlier studies by approaching the subject of communication programs and crisis response holistically, concentrating on how mass communication plans, programs, and campaigns, special event... -
Whole Language and the Bilingual Learner by Angela Carrasquillo 9780893917678
£83.24In this book, authors mesh two philosophies about language: the whole language approach that is sweeping across reading/learning and current theory of language acquisition pervading the bilingual community. The thrust of most bilingual research is that... -
Life on Television: Content Analyses of U.S. TV Drama by Bradley S. Greenberg 9780893910624
£48.28This book identifies, documents, and analyzes the major dimensions of U.S. prime-time TV content. By exmining fictional TV series run in prime-time and on Saturday mornings over three seasons, the author and his research team have put together a... -
Mass Communication Research: On Problems and Policies by Cees J. Hamelink 9780893919511
£56.36This book pays special tribute to Professor James D. Halloran at his retirement after 18 years as president of the International Association for Mass Communication Research. Each chapter is a succinct learning unit in the field of mass communications... -
Television Coverage of the 1980 Presidential Campaign by William C. Adams 9780893911041
£65.53This book covers a variety of topics on newspaper and television coverage including the media and voting in presidential elections, coverage of the 1980 debates, the primaries, polls, economics and energy issues, print and broadcast coverage as compared... -
The World of Talk on a Fijian Island: An Ethnography of Law and Communicative Causation by Andrew Arno 9780893919610
£48.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893919610Author Andrew ArnoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Telecommunications in the Year 2000: National and International Perspectives by I. Singh 9780893911379
£83.24This volume examines the emerging tele-environment in the U.S. and abroad. Chapters deal with the global outlook, policy perspectives, future systems, telecommunictions for national development and problems and prospects for tomorrow's telecommunications... -
World Broadcasting in the Age of the Satellite: Comparative Systems, Policies and Issues in Mass Telecommunication by W J Howell 9780893913403
£83.64This book is intended as a textbook for use in undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative broadcast systems, international broadcasting, and international communication. It also serves as a reference source for professionals in these fields and as... -
Mapping Hegemony: Television News and Industrial Conflict by Robert Goldman 9780893916978
£83.24This volume brings critical theory to bear on a familiar feature of our daily lives- the evening news on television- in order to clarify what it means to talk about hegemony. This book's approach makes accesible to a wider audience another way of seeing... -
Linguistic Action: Some Empirical-Conceptual Studies by Jef Verschueren 9780893913656
£65.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893913656Author Jef VerschuerenFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Policy Research in Telecommunications: Proceedings from the Eleventh Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference by Professor Vincent Mosco 9780893912604
£83.64Telecommunications policy research has grown vigorously over the past few years as evidenced by the contributors in this volume. In addition to the sheer amount of research, policy studies have grown in diversity reflecting an industry that now affects... -
Coherence in Spoken and Written Discourse by Deborah Tannen 9780893910983
£55.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893910983Author Deborah TannenFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
Language and Enlightenment: The Berlin Debates of the Eighteenth Century by Avi S. Lifschitz 9780199661664
RRP: £135.00£97.63What is the role of language in human cognition? Could we attain self-consciousness and construct our civilisation without language? Such were the questions at the basis of eighteenth-century debates on the joint evolution of language, mind, and culture... -
Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema by Christopher Carter 9780814213728
£71.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814213728Author Christopher CarterFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 472g -
Culture and Power: A Media, Culture & Society Reader by Paddy Scannell 9780803986312
RRP: £59.99£52.29This broad-ranging book presents an introduction to the issues and debates which are currently central to media studies, drawn from major articles published in the journal Media, Culture & Society in the period 1985 - 1991. The first part outlines... -
Social Accountability in Communication by Richard Buttny 9780803983076
RRP: £56.99£49.73Winner of the Outstanding Scholarship Award from the Language & Social Interaction Division of the National Communication Association 2007! Much of our talk revolves around accounting for our own and other people's actions. We praise one person and... -
Eco-Impacts and the Greening of Postmodernity: New Maps for Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, and Sociology by Tom Jagtenberg 9780803974074
RRP: £76.00£66.76Addressing a growing need to examine environmental issues from a cultural perspective, this innovative book adopts a cultural studies approach to reach a deeper understanding of the significance of ecological issues in our lives. Eco-Impacts and the... -
Settings for Health Promotion: Linking Theory and Practice by Blake D. Poland 9780803974180
RRP: £121.00£105.90This book is the first full-length in-depth treatment of settings as a focal point for planning, organizing and implementing health promotion. The concept of `setting' is fundamental to theory and practice in health promotion. Internationally renowned... -
Women Transforming Communications: Global Intersections by Donna Allen 9780803972674
RRP: £103.00£90.41In this book over 30 women describe, from as many perspectives, a veritable revolution in communications that is currently transforming the world's communications system as we know it. The contributors illustrate how this revolution moves through three... -
Constructing the Self in a Mediated World by Debra Mowat 9780803970120
RRP: £103.00£90.01In today's world, identities are no longer built solely within communities of family, neighbourhood, school and work - the media plays an important role in formulating our identities or constructions of self. This volume brings together the usually... -
Communicating Effectively with the Chinese by Ge Gao 9780803970038
RRP: £103.00£90.01Utilizing the `self-OTHER' perspective as a conceptual foundation, the authors portray and interpret some of the distinctive communication practices in Chinese culture. They examine how self-conception, role and hierarchy, relational dynamics and face... -
Exploring Media Culture: A Guide by Michael R. Real 9780803958777
RRP: £121.00£105.50This unique textbook provides a fresh interpretation of media analysis and cultural studies. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of American popular culture - including Hollywood cinema, presidential elections and the Super Bowl - to demystify... -
Terror and Everyday Life: Singular Moments in the History of the Horror Film by Jonathan Lake Crane 9780803958494
RRP: £76.00£69.00How does the horror in film relate to the horror we experience in everyday life? This is one of the questions addressed in this examination of the genre of horror film. The author argues that horror films today have broken with the tradition of the genre... -
Terror and Everyday Life: Singular Moments in the History of the Horror Film by Jonathan Lake Crane 9780803958487
RRP: £121.00£109.17He persuasively demonstrates that horror films are not merely a manifestation of the solitary, unconscious 'I' or cultural abjection. . . . This well-crafted, insightful, and devilishly witty study brings horror out from under the psychoanalytic rock to... -
Music at the Margins: Popular Music and Global Cultural Diversity by Deanna Campbell Robinson 9780803931930
RRP: £103.00£90.01Is there a growing homogenization of the world's popular music? Or, conversely, is there a continuing and perhaps ever increasing diversity of song styles and forms? With a focus is on how the process of popular music production is perceived by local... -
Women in Grassroots Communication: Furthering Social Change by Pilar Riano 9780803949065
RRP: £103.00£90.01The dramatic contribution of grassroots organizations to effecting social change is brought into vivid detail in this unique perspective on women from around the globe. Each contributor has been instrumental in grassroots processes of media production or... -
The Power of Silence: Social and Pragmatic Perspectives by Adam Jaworski 9780803949676
RRP: £103.00£90.01This book provides a theoretical account of a variety of different communicative aspects of silence and explores new ways of studying socially-motivated language. A research overview shows the influence of related work in the fields of media studies,... -
Becoming Intercultural: An Integrative Theory of Communication and Cross-Cultural Adaptation by Young Yun Kim 9780803944886
RRP: £103.00£90.01This book looks at the movements of immigrants and refugees and the challenges they face as they cross cultural boundaries and strive to build a new life in an unfamiliar place. It focuses on the psychological dynamic underpinning their adaptation... -
Race, Myth and the News by Christopher P. Campbell 9780803958715
RRP: £121.00£105.50How are the perceptions of the majority culture, the `preferred readings', reflected in television news? How do they reinforce stereotyped attitudes on race? This interpretive analysis presents evidence of racism, including under-representation, within... -
Convergence: Integrating Media, Information & Communication by Thomas F. Baldwin 9780803959057
RRP: £103.00£90.41The key to the future of communications is convergence, the coming together of broadcasting, cable and telecommunications services to form the new media world. The first comprehensive analysis of the conditions that have prompted a convergence of the... -
Tuning In to Young Viewers: Social Science Perspectives on Television by Tannis Margaret MacBeth 9780803958265
RRP: £103.00£90.01Media effects - a key area of media studies - is traditionally provocative and often controversial. Contemporary issues such as violence on television and children's dependence on television are continually debated. Tuning In to Young Viewers provides a... -
Feminism, Multiculturalism, and the Media: Global Diversities by Angharad N. Valdivia 9780803957756
RRP: £103.00£90.01The multiplicity of voices in this volume illustrate the contradictions inherent in multicultural and feminist perspectives on the media. This book breaks new ground by exploring intersecting variables of oppression, from the personal to the political... -
Shaping Political Attitudes: The Impact of Interpersonal Communication and Mass Media by Silvo Lenart 9780803957091
RRP: £76.00£66.76Recent research in the area of public opinion has focused most of its attention on the effect of the mass media, television in particular, as an influencing agent. The author argues that media effects are only half of the equation; the mass media cannot... -
News Coverage of Violence against Women: Engendering Blame by Marian Meyers 9780803956360
RRP: £103.00£90.01Marian Meyers explores evidence that shows that news coverage in North American cities routinely depicts criminal violence against females differently from the way it depicts violence against males. She argues that this serves to perpetuate traditional,... -
Communicating in Multinational Organizations by Richard L. Wiseman 9780803955394
RRP: £76.00£66.76Combining current theories and research with practical illustrations, this book examines communication within organizations between people of different cultural backgrounds. Highlighting ways in which misunderstandings arise, contributors show how to...