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The Sociology of News by Michael Schudson 9780393912876
Booksplease Price: £22.49The Sociology of News reviews and synthesizes not only what is happening to journalism but also what is happening to the scholarly understanding of journalism. In the Second Edition, each chapter of... -
Journalism: Why It Matters Michael Schudson 9781509538553
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Despite the criticisms that have been leveled at news organizations in recent years and the many difficulties they face, journalism matters. It matters, argues Schudson, because it orients people... -
Journalism: Why It Matters by Michael Schudson 9781509538546
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.05Despite the criticisms that have been leveled at news organizations in recent years and the many difficulties they face, journalism matters. It matters, argues Schudson, because it orients people... -
Why Journalism Still Matters Michael Schudson 9781509528059
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Can we talk about the news media without proclaiming journalism either our savior or the source of all evil? It is not easy to do so, but it gets easier if we put the problems and prospects of... -
Why Journalism Still Matters Michael Schudson 9781509528042
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80Can we talk about the news media without proclaiming journalism either our savior or the source of all evil? It is not easy to do so, but it gets easier if we put the problems and prospects of... -
Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press by Michael Schudson 9780745644523
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist and... -
Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press Michael Schudson 9780745644530
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist and... -
Discovering The News: A Social History Of American Newspapers by Michael Schudson
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.24This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective news" was the social product of the democratization of political, economic,... -
The Good Citizen: A History of American CIVIC Life by Michael Schudson 9781451631623
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.77In 1996 less than half of all eligible voters even bothered to vote. Fewer citizens each year follow government and public affairs regularly or even think they should. Is popular sovereignty a... -
Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion: Its Dubious Impact on American Society by Michael Schudson
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48What does advertising do? Is it the faith of a secular society? If so, why does it inspire so little devotion? Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion is a clear-eyed account of advertising as both... -
The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975 by Michael Schudson
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £22.50The American founders did not endorse a citizen's right to know. More openness in government, more frankness in a doctor's communication with patients, more disclosure in a food manufacturer's... -
Watergate In American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, And Reconstruct The Past by Michael Schudson 9780465090839
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.00A look at what Americans remember (and what they have forgotten) about one of the most traumatic domestic political event in the America's post-war history.Book InformationISBN 9780465090839Author... -
Models of Journalism: The functions and influencing factors by Peter Bro
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Models of Journalism investigates the most fundamental questions of how journalists can best serve the public and what factors enable or obstruct them in doing so. The book evaluates previous... -
Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfare's End by Nina Eliasoph 9780691162072
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.55Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But... -
Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt by Marisa Anne Bass
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £52.67How the nature illustrations of a Renaissance polymath reflect his turbulent ageThis pathbreaking and stunningly illustrated book recovers the intersections between natural history, politics, art,... -
Making Volunteers: Civic Life after Welfare's End by Nina Eliasoph 9780691147093
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37Volunteering improves inner character, builds community, cures poverty, and prevents crime. We've all heard this kind of empowerment talk from nonprofit and government-sponsored civic programs. But... -
Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability by R. Douglas Arnold 9780691126074
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Congress, the Press, and Political Accountability is the first large-scale examination of how local media outlets cover members of the United States Congress. Douglas Arnold asks: do local newspapers... -
Television in Society by Arthur Asa Berger 9781138515284
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79Is television a cultural wasteland, or a medium that has brought people more great art, music, dance, and drama than any previous media? How do we study and interpret television? What are the effects... -
Advances in Foundational Mass Communication Theories by Ran Wei 9780367234843
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Providing leading-edge perspectives on the legacy theories of mass media and society, this collection advances the foundational theories of mass communications, which have sustained the field of... -
What's Fair?: The Problem of Equity in Journalism by Robert Giles
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89What's fair? It is an old question in journalism. In 1999, it seems more difficult to answer than ever. The cycle of story, spin, and counterspin that surrounds the White House is only the most... -
Rethinking Popular Culture: Contempory Perspectives in Cultural Studies by Chandra Mukerji
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.27"Rethinking Popular Culture" selects some of the best and most important recent work analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and the exciting new techniques of... -
The Rise of NonProfit Investigative Journalism in the United States Bill Birnbauer 9780367582333
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24With a foreword from Michael Schudson, The Rise of Nonprofit Investigative Journalism in the United States examines the rapid growth, impact and sustainability of not-for-profit investigative... -
General Education in the Social Sciences: Centennial Reflections on the College of the University of Chicago by John J. MacAloon 9780226500027
Booksplease Price: £93.80Higher education's most vibrant and contentious issues--common and specialized learning in the curriculum, conceptions of general and liberal education, the design of common core sequences, the... -
General Education in the Social Sciences: Centennial Reflections on the College of the University of Chicago by John J. MacAloon 9780226500034
Booksplease Price: £36.54Higher education's most vibrant and contentious issues-common and specialized learning in the curriculum, conceptions of general and liberal education, the design of common core sequences, the merits... -
Key Readings in Journalism by Elliot King
RRP: £75.99Booksplease Price: £67.18Key Readings in Journalism brings together over thirty essential writings that every student of journalism should know. Designed as a primary text for undergraduate students, each reading was... -
James Carey: A Critical Reader by Eve Stryker Munson 9780816627035
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46An essential guide to the thought of a central figure in media studies .James Carey-scholar, media critic, and teacher of journalists-almost single-handedly established the importance of defining a... -
Canonic Texts in Media Research: Are There Any? Should There Be? How About These? Elihu Katz (University of Pennsylvania) 9780745629346
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89ARE THERE ANY? Many of us have our own canonic texts - the kind that won't go away. We tell them that their time has passed, that it's embarrassing they're still around, but they turn up repeatedly... -
The Problematic Public: Lippmann, Dewey, and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century by Kristian Bjørkdahl 9780271096773
RRP: £96.99Booksplease Price: £85.97Almost one hundred years have passed since Walter Lippmann and John Dewey published their famous reflections on the "problems of the public," but their thoughts remain surprisingly relevant as... -
Walter Lippmann: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory by Sue Curry Jansen 9781433111372
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £96.72Walter Lippmann has been widely misrepresented in media and communication scholarship. Classified as a utilitarian and characterized as an antidemocratic adversary of philosopher John Dewey in a... -
Real News about the News: Media and British Politics by Kenneth Newton 9781009387071
Booksplease Price: £28.58What role does the media play in British politics? There is growing concern that the media environment is biased, and that online news and social media spread fake news, conspiracy theories,... -
A History of the Book in America, Volume 5: The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America by David Paul Nord 9781469621630
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £35.15The fifth volume of A History of the Book in America addresses the economic, social, and cultural shifts affecting print culture from World War II to the present. During this period factors such as... -
Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt by C.W. Anderson 9780190492335
Booksplease Price: £112.35From data-rich infographics to 140 character tweets and activist cell phone photos taken at political protests, 21st century journalism is awash in new ways to report, display, and distribute the... -
Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal by Carmen Sirianni 9780520226371
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £26.98In this book, two leading experts on community action provide the first scholarly examination of the civic renewal movement that has emerged in the United States in recent decades. Sirianni Friedland... -
Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt by C.W. Anderson
Booksplease Price: £30.48From data-rich infographics to 140 character tweets and activist cell phone photos taken at political protests, 21st century journalism is awash in new ways to report, display, and distribute the... -
A History of the Book in America, Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940 by Carl F. Kaestle 9781469621623
Booksplease Price: £54.26In a period characterized by expanding markets, national consolidation, and social upheaval, print culture picked up momentum as the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth. Books, magazines,... -
Is Art Good for Us?: Beliefs about High Culture in American Life by Joli Jensen 9780742517417
Booksplease Price: £43.33Are 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... -
Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field by Rodney Benson 9780745633862
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.65Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impassioned critique of our media-saturated culture. Presenting for the first time in... -
Can Journalism Survive?: An Inside Look at American Newsrooms by David M. Ryfe 9780745654270
Booksplease Price: £56.13Journalists have failed to respond adequately to the challenge of the Internet, with far-reaching consequences for the future of journalism and democracy. This is the compelling argument set forth... -
Can Journalism Survive?: An Inside Look at American Newsrooms David M. Ryfe (University of Nevada, Reno) 9780745654287
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Journalists have failed to respond adequately to the challenge of the Internet, with far-reaching consequences for the future of journalism and democracy. This is the compelling argument set forth... -
Politics and the American Press: The Rise of Objectivity, 1865-1920 by Richard L Kaplan 9780521621519
Booksplease Price: £64.00Politics and the American Press takes a fresh look at the origins of modern journalism's ideals and political practices. In particular, Richard Kaplan addresses the professional ethic of political...