Media & Communications

This selection of essays, articles, lectures, and other writings by Erik Barnouw, dean of American media scholars, chronicles "the phenomenon of old media giving way to new, and then being replaced by them, as the ghosts of old media rise in new...

COPYWRITING FOR THE ELECTRONIC MEDIA, A PRACTICAL GUIDE, Sixth Edition, prepares you to write effective copy for all types of electronic media, with an emphasis on commercial writing and a valuable real-world orientation to this exciting field. A brief...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197666128Author Ronald B AdlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 839g

Individuals all over the world can use Airbnb to rent an apartment in a foreign city, check Coursera to find a course on statistics, join PatientsLikeMe to exchange information about one's disease, hail a cab using Uber, or read the news through...

Many of us read books every day, either electronically or in print. We remember the books that shaped our ideas about the world as children, go back to favorite books year after year, give or lend books to loved ones and friends to share the stories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039317Author George MelloanFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA

A unique theory of trust building in engagement journalism that proposes journalists move to an ethic of care as they prioritize listening and learning within communities instead of propping up problematic institutions. In How Journalists Engage, Sue...

Overcoming the Exploitation of Passion in Videogame Labor: Passion Play examines the intersection of passion, precarity, and collocation to pinpoint where and how interventions can be made towards better working conditions. Jackson contends that...

Selling Rights has firmly established itself as the leading guide to all aspects of rights sales and co-publications throughout the world. The eighth edition is substantially updated to illustrate the changes in rights in relation to new technologies and...

This unique and innovative book fuses journalism with both psychology and biology to create a new scaffolding where primal literacy is the guiding force to covering high-risk environments. When humans are in high-stress situations, their perceptions of...

Journalism Practice and Critical Reflexivity is a theoretical- and practice-based response to the crisis of mission and credibility in journalism studies that is heightened by online and social media. It describes, analyses and offers new approaches and...

Study of the mass media in Britain and the USA is dominated by an Anglo-American framework. European Media Studies seeks to redress this imbalance by looking at the mass media in a European context and exploring the European understanding of the role of...

Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground...

Communication, Digital Media and Everyday Life (Second Edition) uses stories to explain the journey from 'new media in communication' to 'digital media is communication' and provide a clear introduction to communication and media theory and practice. For...

In literary investigation all evidence is textual, dependent on preservation in material copies. Copies, however, are vulnerable to inadvertent and purposeful change. In this volume, Peter Shillingsburg explores the implications of this central concept...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945446481Author Mark a BoidmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Babypie PublishingPublisher Babypie PublishingWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

What does press freedom mean in a digital age? Do we have to live with fake news, hate speech and surveillance? Can we deal with these threats without bringing about the end of an open society? In a fast-moving narrative, Heawood moves from the birth...

"An excellent introduction to the essential problem of our republic. With a wake-up call like this one, we still have a chance." -Timothy Snyder, author of On TyrannyGhosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: How democracy...

The media are in crisis. Confronted by growing competition and sagging advertising revenue, news operations in print, on radio and TV, and even online are struggling to reinvent themselves. Many have gone under. For too many others, the answer has been...

How the transformation of social media platforms and user-experience have redefined the entertainment industry In a little over a decade, competing social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, have given rise...

This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism's tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good versus evil" terms. Analyzing the civilizational discourse of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with respect to...

An insightful, engaging tour by a noted Silicon Valley insider of how accelerating developments in Artificial Intelligence will transform the way we live and workSelected as one of the 10 best science and technology books of 2015 by The Economist After...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805094336Author Anita ElberseFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Henry Holt & CompanyPublisher Henry Holt & CompanyWeight(grams) 503gDimensions(mm)...

Sports now constitute one of the most valuable forms of broadcast entertainment in today's lucrative international market. This textbook explains the economics underlying the sports broadcasting phenomenon. The specific regulatory culture governing...

"Sony vs. Samsung is business history at its best! It explores the divergent fortunes of these two electronics giants in the last decade and identifies the true reasons behind Sony's decline and Samsung's rise. Contrary to popular belief, Chang shows...

Packed with full-color photographs and examples straight from recent headlines, WRITING AND REPORTING NEWS: A COACHING METHOD, 8e uses tips and techniques from revered writing coaches and award-winning journalists to help you develop the writing and...

The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, misinformation, and democracy, while also mapping cutting-edge scholarship.Through in-depth analyses of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538138045Author Martha LahamFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 644gDimensions(mm) 242mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593081914Author Robert A. CaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech companies -- Disney, Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal and...

Around the globe, people now engage with media content across multiple platforms, following stories, characters, worlds, brands and other information across a spectrum of media channels. This transmedia phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of transmedia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879448Author James B StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

This easy-to-read, jargon free book shows you step-by-step how you can enjoy writing, publishing and marketing your book so that it becomes an enduring bestseller. Written by an established and successful international #1 bestselling author (Dee's second...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062933355Author Mishal HusainFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper BusinessWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 157mm...

Combining practical 'how to' skills with reflection on the place of each specialism in the industry, this guide features the skills needed to cover specialist areas, including writing match reports for sport, reviewing the arts, and dealing with complex...

A glance over the back pages of mid-nineteenth-century newspapers and periodicals published in London reveals that Wellington Street stands out among imprint addresses. Between 1843 and 1853, Household Words, Reynolds's Weekly Newspaper, the Examiner,...

In this entertaining anthology, editors, writers, art directors, and publishers from such magazines as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Elle, and Harper's draw on their varied, colorful experiences to explore a range of issues concerning...

Not since the twin hammers of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution battered apart the foundations of old Europe has the world faced a shift as elemental, as epochal as what confronts us now. From Facebook to hacking attacks to ISIS, powerful...

From Murdoch's media empire to Trump's 'fake news', John Lloyd explodes the myths and misinformation of the Post-Truth age, providing a panoramic overview of the state of journalism as it faces the biggest crisis of its history.Is journalism in jeopardy?...

From Murdoch's media empire to Trump's 'fake news', John Lloyd explodes the myths and misinformation of the Post-Truth age, providing a panoramic overview of the state of journalism as it faces the biggest crisis of its history.Is journalism in jeopardy?...