Media Studies

"Moving from age-old warnings about the influence of the cultural industry to a tentative embrace of a global creative society, Terry Flew's new book provides an excellent overview of this exciting field. Warmly recommended for students and policymakers...

Featuring the input of highly experienced teachers and examiners in Media Studies, this exciting new textbook explores key concepts and develops students' analytical, research and production skills. A series of industry case studies focus...

Computer games have become ubiquitous in today's society. Many scholars have speculated on the reasons for their massive success. Yet we haven't considered the most basic questions: Why do computer games exist? What specific circumstances led to the...

Experienced teacher and INSET deliverer Julie Patrick explores the various contexts of the sticom genre to provide teachers with tangible pedagogic material for the classroom.Book InformationISBN 9781903663769Author Julie PatrickFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142001462Author David MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375701382Author George W.S. TrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 337gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385261029Author Ed JoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 731gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666952193Author Sarah YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint Lexington Books/Fortress AcademicPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538164082Author Diana ChesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

This volume explores the rise of immersive technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 360 videos in the newsroom and how they affect newsmaking for journalists, news sources, and audiences. As these technologies offer journalists new...

Are the arts good for us? This book questions our taken-for-granted assumptions about the transformational powers of high culture by critiquing an instrumental American heritage of beliefs about the arts. Jensen argues that faith in high culture's...

"Friends don't let friends skip leg day." "You shall not pass!" "I'll be back." The way we read these lines-whether or not you picture Gandalf, hear the deep monotone of the Terminator, or smile-makes it clear that media consumption affects our everyday...

Exploring how we make, distribute, and consume today's media systems Media backends--the electronics, labor, and operations behind our screens--significantly influence our understanding of the sociotechnical relations, economies, and operations of media...

This book analyzes the narratives and news coverage of 9/11 across ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Fox News-the five most important American television news networks at the time. Though America's collective memory of the key events of 9/11 have solidified, Paul...

This book builds on existing research in relation to gender in the digital world, focusing on representation, engagement and expression. The contributors deal with a wide range of issues that address three specific themes: social media, body image and...

In the 21st Century, broadcast television is an established part of the lives of many millions of people all over the world, bringing information and entertainment directly into our homes. This three volume collection provides source materials for those...

In the 21st Century, broadcast television is an established part of the lives of many millions of people all over the world, bringing information and entertainment directly into our homes. This three volume collection provides source materials for those...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative. In French literature, newspapers have typically had bad press. Throughout the nineteenth century, French poets and novelists depicted the rapid growth of the press as...

A groundbreaking critique of the digital world that analyzes its universal technological foundations Whence that nagging sense that something in the digital is amiss-that, as wonderful as our devices are, time spent on smartphones and computers leaves...

This book focuses on Australian mainstream media narratives about the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from 2013 to 2020. Set against the background of Sino-Australian relations and taking into account the different media systems of China and Australia,...

An accessible, engaging, and timely overview of the key debates surrounding the role of mobile media in today's society.Edited by Thilo von Pape and Veronika Karnowski, this volume includes contributions from a variety of geographical and disciplinary...

Community radio is an established and key site for negotiations of social and political issues for marginalised communities. Given its inherently local nature (both geographically and ideologically), community radio is perfectly placed as a site for...

It is said that the ontology of data resists slowness and also that the digital revolution promised a levelling of the playing field. Both theories are examined in this timely collection of chapters looking at time in the digital world. Since data has...

In The Transmedia Construction of the Black Panther: Long Live the King, Bryan J. Carr explores and analyzes the evolution of the Black Panther character since his inception in the 1960s across comics, film, television, video games, and music. The Black...

In this book, Mads Moller T. Andersen examines the methodological challenges that arise when studying creativity and creative processes in media industries, arguing that the field of media studies still has much to learn about how these industries...

Malaysiakini was founded in 1999 by Steven Gan and Premesh Chandran, two young Malaysians who met as overseas students in Australia. One of the many online portals that sprung up in the wake of Reformasi, a movement sparked by Prime Minister Mahathir...

Much has been said about how Javanese puppet theatre, Wayang Kulit, richly reflects the Javanese world, and how changes and tensions in performance practice mirror those in culture and society. For decades, television has been as intensely part of the...

Algorithms have risen to become one, if not the central technology for producing, circulating, and evaluating knowledge in multiple societal arenas. In this book, scholars from the social sciences, humanities, and computer science argue that this shift...

Exploring Text, Media, and Memory investigates the link between memory and media by asking a series of questions pertinent to our time: How do individual and collective memories blend? How do traumatic experiences from past events and catastrophic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788182050518Author Ramesh Chandra MajumdarFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Gyan BooksPublisher Gyan BooksDimensions(mm) 203mm * 254mm * 47mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847116394Author Dr. Susanne BlumesbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 597gDimensions(mm)...

Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of the X-ray has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. After we started to see inside ourselves, the relationship between ourselves and our bodies changed forever. As...

Award-winning author David J. Park argues that the battle against global warming is also a fight for media reform. With his new book Media Reform and the Climate Emergency: Rethinking Communication in the Struggle for a Sustainable Future, he critically...

An ambitious study of the ways opera has sought to ensure its popularity by keeping pace with changes in media technology. From the early days of television broadcasts to today's live streams, opera houses have embraced technology as a way to reach new...

Uncanny Histories in Film and Media brings together a stellar lineup of established and emergent scholars who explore the uncanny twists and turns that are often occluded in larger accounts of film and media. Prompted by fresh archival research and new...

Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India examines the assertion of authoritarian nationalism and neoliberalism; both backed by the authority of the state and argues that contemporary India should be understood as the intersection of...

Judaism in the twenty-first century has seen the rise of the messianic Third Temple movement, as religious activists based in Israel have worked to realize biblical prophecies, including the restoration of a Jewish theocracy and the construction of the...

Branding Brazil examines a panorama of contemporary cultural productions including film, television, photography, and alternative media to explore the transformation of citizenship in Brazil from 2003 to 2014. A utopian impulse drove the reproduction of...

The Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities have typically been associated with strict religious observance, a renunciation of worldly things, and an obedience of women to men. Women's relationship to media in these communities, however, betrays a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932236934Author James PaneroFormat HardbackPage Count 361Imprint ISI BooksPublisher ISI Books