Media Studies

The classic political study of how elite forces shape mass media.Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky investigate how an underlying elite consensus structures mainstream media. Here they skilfully dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of...

The digital world is now at the center of our lives, and in an increasingly competitive business world, more and more companies are choosing to fully embrace the innovative digital techniques to keep their level of competitiveness high. With this in...

Contesting Platform Power explores the practices and discourses of data activists, by shifting the focus from critical digital studies to critical platform studies through the theoretical lens of affordances, to understand the material means by which...

The rise of digital media has disrupted the traditional media landscape, leading to a range of challenges. Fake news and misinformation abound, privacy and data security concerns loom large, and power consolidation in the hands of a few corporations are...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259634Author Marina FedosikFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

Polarisation seems to fix people in antagonistic us/them camps. But, around the world, there are groups of citizens who refuse to give up on the democratic promise of a larger 'we'. Challenging received prejudices and resisting tribal appeals from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215197Author Marina FedosikFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook highlights the best academic debates, discussions and research from the previous year, as previously published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy. This volume brings together specially...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786073931625Author Javier MarinFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V.Publisher Editorial Planeta Mexicana S.A. de C.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814259627Author Imani M CheersFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

In recent years, geeks have become chic, and the fashion and beauty industries have responded to this trend with a plethora of fashion-forward merchandise aimed at the increasingly lucrative fan demographic. This mainstreaming of fan identity is...

Contemporary scholarship illustrates the law’s increasingly powerful role in American life; legal education, in turn, has focused on the problems and techniques of communication. This book addresses these interests through critical study of eight popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783638932783Author Ludwig AndertFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 45g

How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influenceAs television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640998418Author Verena SticklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 41g

What might the digital revolution we're currently living through mean for conventional paper books? Is there a future for the long-form text at all? At the onset of the digital deluge, books had evolved into the perfect reading machine. In the screen...

The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is the peer-reviewed, scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). The journal was renamed (from Cinema Journal) in October 2018. JCMS’s basic mission is to foster engaged debate and...

The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is the peer-reviewed, scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). The journal was renamed (from Cinema Journal) in October 2018. JCMS's basic mission is to foster engaged debate and...

The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies is the peer-reviewed, scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). The journal was renamed (from Cinema Journal) in October 2018. JCMS’s basic mission is to foster engaged debate and...

In African Ecomedia, Cajetan Iheka examines the ecological footprint of media in Africa alongside the representation of environmental issues in visual culture. Iheka shows how, through visual media such as film, photography, and sculpture, African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783837679267Author Chenyang SongFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Transcript VerlagPublisher Transcript Verlag

"Whereas some other scholars read selected films mainly to illustrate political arguments, Roan never loses sight of the particularities of film as a distinctive cultural form and practice. Her drive to see 'cinema as a mechanism of American orientalism'...

When an epidemic strikes, media outlets are central to how an outbreak is framed and understood. While reporters construct stories intended to inform the public and convey essential information from doctors and politicians, news narratives also serve as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772840292Author Angie WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba PressWeight(grams) 310g

Pullout sections, poster supplements, contests, puzzles, and the funny pages--the Sunday newspaper once delivered a parade of information, entertainment, and spectacle for just a few pennies each weekend. Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele return to an era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640482399Author Sylvia StutzerFormat PaperbackImprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 68g

Collateral Damage provides an overview of how political communication influences the process of incorporation with the broad society as well as its political parties. Sean Richey shows that how politicians talk about immigrants affects how their children...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945861024Author Andrea PinottiFormat HardbackPage Count 282Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

This new study looks at the crucial role played by audiovisual media in Hindu cultural nationalism. The application of new media technology in the context of the construction of 'Indianness' by Hindutva's main political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781923192133Author Tracey KirklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656436546Author Melissa ChenFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 64g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607858959Author Society for Cinema and Media StudiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Society for Cinema and Media StudiesPublisher Society for...

From the late 1800s through the first half of the 1900s, pulp magazines--costing a dime and filled with both fiction and nonfiction--were a staple of American life. Though often overlooked by popular culturalists, sports were one of the staples of the...

Upon its premiere in 1992, Midway's Mortal Kombat spawned an enormously influential series of fighting games, notorious for their violent "fatality" moves performed by photorealistic characters. Targeted by lawmakers and moral reformers, the series...

The Black Press brings together original, multidisciplinary research that explores the history and impact of Black newspapers in Canada. This collection of essays introduces readers to the rich archive of Black Canadian journalism, spanning the period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783346125637Author AnonymFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 36g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668018402Author Kazi Ashraf UddinFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 41gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640998432Author Verena SticklerFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 45g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640991273Author Alexander OttoFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 45g