Media Studies

Race, Culture and Media is a critical, impassioned and accessible exploration of this complex relationship. This new edition moves past conventional discourse on diversity, challenging you to confront the real issues of power and participation. Anamik...

In today's world, digital media and the social are irreversibly intertwined. In this cutting-edge introduction, Simon Lindgren introduces a wide range of concepts and approaches that aid in exploring and understanding what it means to live in a digital...

Race, Culture and Media is a critical, impassioned and accessible exploration of this complex relationship. This new edition moves past conventional discourse on diversity, challenging you to confront the real issues of power and participation. Anamik...

Social Media Television and Distributional Aesthetics explores this distinct fictional form that merges the genres, structures and affordances of television with those of social media, and what it entails for contemporary television and media culture,...

This text explores how to design, implement and sustain processes to meaningfully engage youth and marginalized populations into local and multilateral decision-making.Drawing on perspectives from across regions, generations and disciplines, the book...

Challenges and Developments in Public Service Journalism, the 11th RIPE Reader, examines the role of public service journalism, as well as the opportunities and challenges of delivering it in today's increasingly complex and competitive digital media...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528269Author Pablo J. BoczkowskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Journalists do not often get the chance to reflect on the ethical side of their work, and the public they serve knows little about it. What the public sees is often negative- intrusive cameras, shouted questions, rude and aggressive behaviour. But...

Few issues have captured media headlines over the past two decades like Islam and Muslims, and much of what the Australian public knows about Islam and its followers is gleaned from the mass media. Islam and the Australian News Media tackles head-on the...

  This monograph explains video games as multidimensional and deeply mutable concepts as the interplay of three dimensions: Indeed, in addition to the hybrid approaches between genre of fiction and genre of game in genre theory, it is also social genre...

Paper Knowledge is a remarkable book about the mundane: the library card, the promissory note, the movie ticket, the PDF (Portable Document Format). It is a media history of the document. Drawing examples from the 1870s, the 1930s, the 1960s, and today,...

It has been a decade since Serial brought the narrative podcast to the center of popular culture. In that time, there has been an enormous boom in the production of podcasts that tell stories, particularly in the fields of true crime, storytelling,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666958638Author Deborah R GeisFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793651976Author Michael J GrabowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

What political power do videos on social media have? In what ways do they exert influence, shape publics and change political life? And how can committed civil society actors in this field assert themselves against hegemonic discourses, commercial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765107171Author PhD Bill KovarikFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765107164Author PhD Bill KovarikFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765112472Author Professor Tony MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

A poetics for reading the everyday objects that populate a hard drive Bespoke online archives like PennSound and Eclipse host an astounding array of "old media" artifacts, posing a handcrafted counterpoint to the immense databases aggregated by digital...

The Emerging Contours of the Medium explores a crucial aspect of media thinking, focusing particularly on the 'mediality' of literature, a medium that remains today on the margins of the theoretical discussion of media. The book was written by a...

In Media and the Power of Knowledge, Fuller argues that from literacy to digitality, access and control of the available media have arguably done the most to shape the course of knowledge.Fuller radically extends Marshall McLuhan's slogan, 'The medium is...

Examines Swedish depictions of childhood that expose the country's colonial past and racial hierarchiesFigures like Pippi Longstocking and Greta Thunberg exemplify an ideal mainstream Swedish childhood: they are autonomous, competent, and the voices of...

Examines Swedish depictions of childhood that expose the country's colonial past and racial hierarchiesFigures like Pippi Longstocking and Greta Thunberg exemplify an ideal mainstream Swedish childhood: they are autonomous, competent, and the voices of...

Master the critical tools for understanding media in today's fast-evolving digital landscape Critical Media Studies: An Introduction for the Digital Age provides students with a powerful framework for analyzing the impact of media on knowledge,...

This book critically examines how brands determine the visibility of social issues through their advertising practices, informing the ways we are persuaded to think, feel, and act as consumers and citizens.Through a critical analysis of brand responses...

The emerging field of historical game studies focuses on the representations of the past in digital games. One aspect, however, has often been overloooked: the significant role of game production aspects in these representations. This issue integrates...

What political power do videos on social media have? In what ways do they exert influence, shape publics and change political life? And how can committed civil society actors in this field assert themselves against hegemonic discourses, commercial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943208920Author Juan Llamas-RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint Amherst College PressPublisher Michigan Publishing ServicesWeight(grams) 454g

Media Travels: Toward An Atlas of Global Media fills a significant gap in global media scholarship by offering short, readable articles covering different types of media from around the world. Through careful and informed analysis, these eleven...

Contemplating studying media? This handy text will tell you everything you need to know! Beginning with the definition and history of media studies, this book delves into exciting subjects like the political economy of mass media, digitalization, AI,...

Writing Borderless Histories of Art is an aspirational, historical, and critical project that offers a fundamental rethinking of the relationship of humans to the rest of nature.Race, Indigeneity, and the environmental crisis are the burning issues of...

The Many Faces of the Contemporary Russian Propaganda in the Balkans: Sputnik Srbija analyzes information published by the news website Sputnik Srbija during the first year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This book provides an overview of the...

Social media is becoming increasingly attractive for users. It is a fast way to communicate ideas and a key source of information. It is therefore one of the most influential mediums of communication of our time and an important area for audience...

In Mobile City, Jordan H. Kraemer charts the rise of social media and an emerging "knowledge" class in early-2000s Berlin. Many young Germans and EU-Auslander (foreigners from other EU countries), attracted to Berlin's vibrant post-unification...

From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered our politics and the very fabric of our society. We all...

We encounter digital data processing on a range of platforms and in a multitude of contexts today: in the predictive algorithms of the financial sector, in drones, insurance, and risk management, in smart cities, biometrics, medicine, and more. This...

Attention is fundamental to how we experience reality, and yet this notion has been understood and practised in very different ways across history. This interdisciplinary study explores the dynamic relationship between attention and its supposed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765128039Author Prof. John HartleyFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

This collection offers a range of cultural studies perspectives on the ways gender and modernity intersect in media produced in the Asia-Pacific region. It spans different ideas about modernity in the region, different approaches to cultural analysis,...

In this book, Jabari Evans examines Chicago's controversial Drill rap scene and the "always-on" nature of social media for these musicians, who are often tasked with maintaining constant connection across multiple platforms in order to both affirm their...