Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture – serie
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62 produkter
Reality TV
The Work of Being Watched
E-bok, 2004
701 kr
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Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated …
From the Labyrinth of the World to the Paradise of the Heart
Science and Humanism in UNESCO's Approach to Globalization
Inbunden, 2008
1561 kr
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While there is ever-growing literature on the economic, cultural, and political aspects of globalization, there are no critical, up-to-date studies on its philosophical and ideological underpinnings. Vincenzo Pavone fills this gap in the literature by analyzing one of the most interesting actors …
Social Theories of the Press
Constituents of Communication Research, 1840s to 1920s
Av Hanno Hardt
Häftad, 2001
643 kr
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Hanno Hardt has thoroughly revised and expanded his 'pre-history' of communication research in the United States. With the notable addition of Karl Marx's journalism-focused writings and a new foreword by James W. Carey, this edition covers intellectual contributions from several German theorists …
Global Media Governance
A Beginner's Guide
Av Seán Ó Siochrú, Bruce Girard m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
516 kr
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This book is a primer on media governance at a global level and the key influencing forces and organizations, such as ITU, WTO, UNESCO, WIPO, and ICANN. Governance oversees regulation, and questions addressed here include: Why do we regulate the various media at all? What currently are the major …
Principles of Publicity and Press Freedom
Inbunden, 2002
1596 kr
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This insightful book examines freedom of the press, the social functions of the press, and how the original concept of publicity—as the 'public use of reason,' or citizens' freedom to express and publish opinions—has been reduced to mean the right of media to access and print information. This, the …
Principles of Publicity and Press Freedom
Häftad, 2002
713 kr
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This insightful book examines freedom of the press, the social functions of the press, and how the original concept of publicity—as the 'public use of reason,' or citizens' freedom to express and publish opinions—has been reduced to mean the right of media to access and print information. This, the …
Privacy and the Information Age
Häftad, 2001
600 kr
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In a time in which new technologies make it easy to gather and process data, the discussion on privacy tends to focus exclusively on the protecting of personal data. To Serge Gutwirth, privacy involves far more. He advances the intriguing thesis that privacy is in fact the safeguard of personal …
Digital Disability
The Social Construction of Disability in New Media
Av Gerard Goggin, Christopher Newell
Häftad, 2002
600 kr
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Media representation of and for the disabled has been recharged in recent years with the expansion of new media worldwide. Interactive digital communications—such as the Internet, new varieties of voice and text telephones, and digital broadcasting—have created a need for a more innovative …
Fatal Attraction
Public Television and Politics in Italy
Inbunden, 2004
1702 kr
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Cinzia Padovani takes an in-depth look at Italian public service broadcasting, covering its history, its role in Italian society, its relationship to the political party system, and its influence on cultural and linguistic unification in Italy. Tracing the history and development of Italian public …
Fatal Attraction
Public Television and Politics in Italy
Häftad, 2007
643 kr
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Cinzia Padovani takes an in-depth look at Italian public service broadcasting, covering its history, its role in Italian society, its relationship to the political party system, and its influence on cultural and linguistic unification in Italy. Tracing the history and development of Italian public …
Critical Communication Theory
Power, Media, Gender, and Technology
Häftad, 2002
703 kr
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Critical theorist, feminist, and censorship expert Sue Curry Jansen brings a fresh perspective to contemporary communication inquiry. Jansen engages two key questions at the heart of a critical politics of communication: What do we know? And how do we know it? The questions are not unique to our …
Contesting Media Power
Alternative Media in a Networked World
Häftad, 2003
784 kr
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Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists develop a broad comparative framework for analyzing …
Why TV Is Not Our Fault
Television Programming, Viewers, and Who's Really in Control
Häftad, 2005
459 kr
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For more than five decades, we've been told by pundits, commentators, advertisers, scholars, and politicians that television is both a window on the world and a mirror reflecting our culture. We've been led to believe that it shows us the world's events through news programs and, through …
Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Av Andrew Calabrese, Colin Sparks
Häftad, 2003
784 kr
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Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important …
Global Electioneering
Campaign Consulting, Communications, and Corporate Financing
Häftad, 2005
614 kr
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Global Electioneering explores American-style political consulting and its spread to countries throughout the world, emphasizing the roles of communication and technology. Gerald Sussman challenges the common belief that American influence abroad is due strictly to the professionalization of …
Reality TV
The Work of Being Watched
Häftad, 2003
643 kr
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Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated …
Changing Concepts of Time
Inbunden, 2004
1420 kr
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This classic book, Harold Innis's last, returns to print with a new introduction by James Carey. An elaboration of Innis's earlier theories, Changing Concepts of Time looks at then-new technological changes in communication and considers the different ways in which space and time are perceived. …
Changing Concepts of Time
Häftad, 2004
600 kr
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This classic book, Harold Innis's last, returns to print with a new introduction by James Carey. An elaboration of Innis's earlier theories, Changing Concepts of Time looks at then-new technological changes in communication and considers the different ways in which space and time are perceived. …
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Av John Durham Peters, Peter Simonson
Inbunden, 2004
1985 kr
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This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media …
Mass Communication and American Social Thought
Key Texts, 1919-1968
Av John Durham Peters, Peter Simonson
Häftad, 2004
1278 kr
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This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media …
Many Voices, One World
Towards a New, More Just, and More Efficient World Information and Communication Order
Inbunden, 2003
1844 kr
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Originally published in 1980 and now back in print, Many Voices, One World came out of hundreds of international studies and proposed reforms for global communication media to ensure a free flow of information. Prepared by the distinguished MacBride Commission_and frequently referred to as the …
Many Voices, One World
Towards a New, More Just, and More Efficient World Information and Communication Order
Häftad, 2003
784 kr
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Originally published in 1980 and now back in print, Many Voices, One World came out of hundreds of international studies and proposed reforms for global communication media to ensure a free flow of information. Prepared by the distinguished MacBride Commission_and frequently referred to as the …
Entertaining the Citizen
When Politics and Popular Culture Converge
Häftad, 2004
530 kr
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Can politics be combined with entertainment? Can political involvement and participation be fun? Politics and popular culture are converging all the time, whether itOs in Arnold SchwarzeneggerOs election as governor of California or in political television dramas and movies like The West Wing and …
Raymond Williams
Inbunden, 2005
1432 kr
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Raymond Williams_a Welsh media critic and one of the founding thinkers behind the popular field of cultural studies_believed that the traditional focus of biographies on individuals isolated these people from their communities. For this reason, Alan O'Connor looks at Williams and his time period, …
Raymond Williams
Häftad, 2005
547 kr
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Raymond Williams_a Welsh media critic and one of the founding thinkers behind the popular field of cultural studies_believed that the traditional focus of biographies on individuals isolated these people from their communities. For this reason, Alan O'Connor looks at Williams and his time period, …
Media, Terrorism, and Theory
A Reader
Av Anandam P. Kavoori, Todd Fraley
Inbunden, 2006
1561 kr
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Over the past few years, coverage of terror attacks has featured prominently in numerous media outlets. Drawing on both popular and academic articles, the essays in Media, Terrorism, and Theory: A Reader analyze the larger issues surrounding media's portrayal of terrorism, including terrorism as a …
Media, Terrorism, and Theory
A Reader
Av Anandam P. Kavoori, Todd Fraley
Häftad, 2006
530 kr
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Over the past few years, coverage of terror attacks has featured prominently in numerous media outlets. Drawing on both popular and academic articles, the essays in Media, Terrorism, and Theory: A Reader analyze the larger issues surrounding media's portrayal of terrorism, including terrorism as a …
Democratizing Global Media
One World, Many Struggles
Av Robert A. Hackett, Yuezhi Zhao
Häftad, 2005
855 kr
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Democratizing Global Media explores the complex relationship between globalizing media and the spread of democracy around the world. An international, interdisciplinary group of journalists and scholars discusses key—and often contentious—issues such as the power of media, the benefits of media …
Digital Music Wars
Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox
Av Patrick Burkart, Tom McCourt
Inbunden, 2006
1317 kr
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With the rising popularity of online music, the nature of the music industry and the role of the Internet are rapidly changing. Rather than buying records, tapes, or CDs_in other words, full-length collections of music_music shoppers can, as they have in earlier decades, purchase just one song at a …
Digital Music Wars
Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox
Av Patrick Burkart, Tom McCourt
Häftad, 2006
633 kr
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With the rising popularity of online music, the nature of the music industry and the role of the Internet are rapidly changing. Rather than buying records, tapes, or CDs_in other words, full-length collections of music_music shoppers can, as they have in earlier decades, purchase just one song at a …
