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The business of sports : a primer for journalists - Mark Conrad.
ISBN: 9780415876537
This volume provides journalists with the foundation for understanding the various parts of the sports business, and explores structure, governance, labor issues, and other business factors within the sports community. For journalists and students in jou.
Communication mosaics : an introduction to the field of communication - Wood, Julia T.
ISBN: 0495798371
A book from Cengage Learning on Communication Mosaics.
Going Public - Michael Gecan
An organizer's guide to citizen action. "A treatise on power for those whose goal is to make effective social change..." The Village Voice
Media Studies: texts, production and context - Long, Paul and Wall, Tim
Outlines what is involved in Media Studies and why it is such a worthwhile scholarly pursuit. This groundbreaking and innovative introduction to Media Studies will afford undergraduate and mature students a comprehensive overview of the subject area. It will set students firmly on course to be critical, informed and canny operators within the discipline.
Media and identity in Africa - edited by Kimani Njogu and John Middleton
Call Number: 302.23096 MED
Incorporating both African and international perspectives, Media and Identity in Africa demonstrates how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question, or modify the unequal power relations between Africa and the rest of the world. Discussions about the construction of old and new social entities which are defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differences, wealth, poverty, cultural behavior, language, and religion dominate these new assessments of communications media in Africa.
The word weavers : newshounds and wordsmiths - Jean Aitchison
Call Number: 808.06607 AIT
Entertainingly written,The Word Weavers provides a fascinating insight into journalistic writing, and will be enjoyed by anybody wanting to know more about media language. Drawing on a range of authentic news articles, it traces the development of journalism from its origins to the present day. Aitchison shows how contemporary news writers have inherited an age-old oral tradition, which over the centuries was incorporated into public notices, ballads and storybooks - eventually providing the basis of the journalism we see today.
Signal and noise : media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria - Brian Larkin.
Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point.Concentrating on the Muslim city of Kano in the north of Nigeria, Larkin charts how the material qualities of technologies and the cultural ambitions they represent feed into the everyday lived world of urban Nigeria.
News as entertainment : the rise of global infotainment - Daya Thussu.
Call Number: 070.43 THU
Richly detailed and empirically grounded, this first book-length study of infotainment and its globalisation by a leading scholar of global communication, offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of this emerging phenomenon.
Domain errors! : cyberfeminist practices - edited by Maria Fernandez, Faith Wilding and Michelle M. Wright.
Part performative intervention, part radical polemic and activist manual, Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices introduces a diverse international group of feminist writers, artists, theorists, and activists engaged in formulating a contestational politics for tactical cyberfeminism. This book highlights productive intersections of feminist and postcolonial discourses through critical analyses of the embodied politics of digital culture. Opening areas repressed in previous cyberfeminist discourses, the authors map contemporary social relations between women as they are mediated and transformed by digital and bio technologies.
Examining identity in sports media - editors, Heather L. Hundley, Andrew C. Billings.
investigates the numerous ways print, electronic, and digital media present issues of identity in sports coverage- each chapter addresses media portrayals and//or cultural representations of one or more form of identity - ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, ability//disability, etc - as it relates to sport- contributors, both seasoned and up-and-coming scholars of sport, represent a fine and diverse balance of intellectual ideologies
We tell ourselves stories in order to live : collected nonfiction - Joan Didion ; with an introduction by John Leonard.
Joan Didions incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. Slouching Towards Bethlehemcaptures the counterculture of the sixties, its mood and lifestyle, as symbolized by California, Joan Baez, Haight-Ashbury.The White Albumcovers the revolutionary politics and the contemporary wasteland of the late sixties and early seventies, in pieces on the Manson family, the Black Panthers, and Hollywood.Salvadoris a riveting look at the social and political landscape of civil war.Miamiexposes the secret role this largely Latin city played in the Cold War, from the Bay of Pigs through Watergate. InAfter HenryDidion reports on the Reagans, Patty Hearst, and the Central Park jogger case. The eight essays inPolitical Fictionson censorship in the media, Gingrich, Clinton, Starr, and compassionate conservatism, among othersshow us how we got to the political scene of today. And inWhere I Was FromDidion shows that California was never the land of the golden dream. (book jacket)
Who owns the media? : global trends and local resistances - edited by Pradip N. Thomas and Zaharom Nain ; with a foreword by Peter Golding.
The US model of media control and policy making is being rapidly exported across the world. Some countries are attempting to preserve their own cultural production, and there are moves to try to keep culture out of the control of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Many books on the political economy of communications have either focused on general tendencies internationally, or have focused on the links between markets and media freedom in specific countries and regions. The uniqueness of this book lies in its focus on both local and international forces. While critiquing international capital, it also acknowledges the bargains that are struck between the local operators and transnationals. The contributors demonstrate the misfit between media ownership and public accountability and look ahead for ways to enable citizens around the world become effective participants in media policy making.
Women, violence, and the media : readings in feminist criminology - edited by Drew Humphries.
Through the lens of feminist criminology, this volume examines the complex interrelationship of women, violence, and media presentations. The book is divided into three sections. The first, "Gendering Constructions," lays the groundwork for the volume by examining the print media's presentation of gendered violence, female killers on Law and Order, African American women in Hollywood films, and women in media, crime, and violence textbooks. The second section, "Debating the Issues," explores aspects of femicide, including mass murder incidents, domestic violence in Bangladesh, and wartime sexual violence in reality and on television. The final section "Changing the Image," focuses on efforts to replace masculine assumptions with constructive approaches to imagining women. Designed for course adoption, Women, Violence, and the Media emphasizes the key themes and critical skills required for media literacy, and the volume offers guidelines for readers on conducting their own research.
Digital generations : children, young people, and new media - edited by David Buckingham, Rebekah Willett.
Computer games, the Internet, and other new communications media are often seen to pose threats and dangers to young people, but they also provide new opportunities for creativity and self-determination. As we start to look beyond the immediate hopes and fears that new technologies often provoke, there is a growing need for in-depth empirical research. i Digital Generations /i presents a range of exciting and challenging new work on children, young people, and new digital media. The book is organized around four key themes: Play and Gaming, The Internet, Identities and Communities Online, and Learning and Education. The book brings together researchers from a range of academic disciplines - including media and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology and education - and will be of interest to a wide readership of researchers, students, practitioners in digital media, and educators.
Media economics : applying economics to new and traditional media - Colin Hoskins, Stuart McFayden, and Adam Finn.
ISBN: 0761930957
How does the Internet affect the supply of information-based entertainment and cultural goods? Why do telephone companies have peak and off-peak prices for long-distance calls? Why is broadcasting, but not newspaper publishing, usually regulated and sometimes subsidized? Media Economics: Applying Economics to New and Traditional Media provides a thorough foundation of the microeconomic principles and concepts needed to understand media industries and issues in the converging media environment.
The power of communication : changes and challenges in African media - edited by Kristin Skare Orgeret & Helge Rønning.
ISBN: 9788274774544
The power of communication draws attention to the role of the media and communication in politics and development on the African continent. This book presents insights into how different media provide
Converging media, diverging politics : a political economy of news media in the United States and Canada - edited by David Skinner, James R. Compton, and Michael Gasher.
ISBN: 9780739108277
344 p. ; 25 cm.
Sounding new media : immersion and embodiment in the arts and culture - Frances Dyson
ISBN: 9780520258990
"Examines the long-neglected role of sound and audio in the development of a new media theory and practice, including new technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on embodiment, art, and technological interactions ... focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century--electronics, imaging, and digital and computer processing.
Translation in global news - Esperança Bielsa and Susan Bassnett
ISBN: 9780415409728
Addresses the central issues relating to the pressures on translation arising from globalization. This book analyzes various texts from major news agencies as well as alternative media organizations.
The history of media Mind in life : biology, phenomenology, and the sciences of mind - Evan Thompson
ISBN: 9780674057517
How is life related to the mind? This book explores the gap between biological life and consciousness. It argues that where there is life, there is mind: life and mind share common principles of self-organization, and the self-organizing features of mind are an enriched version of the self-organizing features of life.
The alternative media handbook - Kate Coyer, Tony Dowmunt and Alan Fountain
ISBN: 9780415359665
Outlines the different types of 'alternative media' and offers an overview of global alternative media activity, before moving on to provide information about alternative media production and how to get involved in it, including: What is Alternative Media? Alternative media in practice; and, making media getting involved.
Global marketing and advertising : understanding cultural paradoxes - Marieke de Mooij
ISBN: 9781412970419
Packed with cultural, company, and country examples that help explain the paradoxes international marketers are likely to encounter, this work offers a mix of theory and practical applications. It covers globalization, global branding strategies, classification models of culture, & much more.
Disaster communications in a changing media world - George D. Haddow and Kim S. Haddow.
ISBN: 9781856175548
Communications is key to the success of disaster mitigation, response and recovery. This book covers terrorist incidents, accidents, and natural disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes.
Rethinking relationships - Steve Duck
ISBN: 9781412958769
Publication Year: c2011.
Relationships are far more than emotional attachments or bonds. They are not merely happy, emotionally satisfying elements of our lives but they significantly shape our experiences of the world and contribute to our senses of identity, our outlook on life, and even the way in which we think about things. In The Relationships Book, noted human relationship scholar and professor, Steve Duck, integrates diverse systems of thought and offers a new and distinct way to think about relationships and relating.
Prayer has spoiled everything : possession, power, and identity in an Islamic town of Niger - Adeline Masquelier
ISBN: 9780822326397
Publication Year: c2001
Bori, in the Mawri society of Niger, are mischievous and invisible beings that populate the bush. Bori is also the practice of taming these wild forces in the context of possession ceremonies. In Prayer Has Spoiled Everything Adeline Masquelier offers an account of how this phenomenon intervenes—sometimes subtly, sometimes dramatically—in human lives
Sex, drugs, and body counts : the politics of numbers in global crime and conflict - edited by Peter Andreas and Kelly M. Greenhill.
ISBN: 9780801476181
Publication Year: 2010
""Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts is terrific. It demonstrates that quantitative misrepresentation is not an idiosyncratic problem but one that is widespread and often detrimental. The authors make sense of the numbers that are thrown around so liberally by interested parties and which so often influence or even determine important and costly public policies."---John Mueller, Ohio State University" ""Statistics can be like sausages: the more you know about how they're produced, the less appetizing they seem. Each essay in this excellent collection explores how political considerations rework best guesses and stab-in-the-dark estimates into ̀hard numbers' that, in turn, are used to justify international policies on human trafficking, illicit drugs, and warfare, Readers risk losing their complacent confidence in ẁhat the data show
Media and the path to peace - Gadi Wolfsfeld.
ISBN: 9780521831369
Publication Year: 2004
"This is the first book to examine in detail the roles that the news media can play in an ongoing peace process. Gadi Wolfsfeld explains how the press's role in such processes varies over time and political circumstance. He examines three major cases: the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians; the peace process between Israel and Jordan; and the process surrounding the Good Friday agreement in Northern Ireland. Wolfsfeld's central argument is that there is a fundamental contradiction between news values and the nature of a peace process.
Machines that become us : the social context of personal communication technology - James E. Katz, editor.
ISBN: 9781412806213
Publication Year: c2003
social critics and artificial intelligence expects have long prophesezed that computers and robets would soon relegate humes to the dustbin of history.(book jacket)
Making is connecting : the social meaning of creativity from DIY and knitting to YouTube and Web 2.0 - David Gaunlett
ISBN: 9780745650029
Publication Year: 2011
In Making is Connecting, David Gauntlett argues that, through making things, people engage with the world and create connections with each other. Both online and offline, we see that people want to make their mark on the world, and to make connections. During the previous century, the production of culture became dominated by professional elite producers.
DIY U : edupunks, edupreneurs, and the coming transformation of higher education - Anya Kamenetz.
ISBN: 9781603582346
Publication Year: c2010.
Kamenetz argues that universities must radically change the way higher education is delivered and explains that institutions' futures lie in personal learning networks and paths, blending experiential and digital approaches as open-source educational models.
The new Arab media : technology, image and perception - edited by Mahjoob Zweiri and Emma C. Murphy.
ISBN: 9780863723476
Publication Year: 2011.
Offers an introduction and analysis of some of the most important issues surrounding the media revolution in the Middle East, in particular examining the two Janus-like faces of the media in the Middle East: its role in reflecting developments within the region as well as its function in projecting the Arab world outside of the Middle East.
Public affairs reporting now : news of, by and for the people - G. Michael Killenberg.
ISBN: 9780240808253
Publication Year: c2008
Everyday life, no whether the issues or events arise next-door or a continent away, raises questions and concerns that the public counts on journalists to answer and, more important, confront. More than ever before, we all rely on the news media for warnings, explanations and insights. The profession - and society - cannot afford lazy, inept, uncommitted journalists. Today's reporters must learn how to cover public affairs intelligently and thoroughly. First you must learn about the institutions and people who influence the news; understanding how a legislative conference committee functions or how a trial is conducted remain important pre-requisites. But it is not enough merely to know how to report.
Documentary superstars : how today's filmmakers are reinventing the form - Marsha McCreadie.
ISBN: 9781581155082
Publication Year: c2008
"a lively, well-researched, and informative book that raises all the right questions about documantaries of the past as well as those of the presents." (book jacket)
Understanding ethnic media : producers, consumers, and societies - Matthew D. Matsaganis, Vikki S. Katz, Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach.
ISBN: 9781412959131
Publication Year: c2011
Ethnic media in context. What are ethnic media? -- The ethnic media in history -- The consumers. Immigrants and their media -- Ethnic minorities and their media -- The producers. Ethnic media audience trends and what lies behind the numbers -- Ethnic media organizations and competition.