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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.
Critical cyberculture studies - edited by David Silver and Adrienne Massanari ; with a foreword by Steve Jones.
As studies of the Internet and cyberculture begin to mature, it is a particularly important time for critical studies--critical of the subject matter, and critical of the emerging field itself. The consciously interdisciplinary approach of Critical Cyberculture Studies, and the depth and breadth of the contributions, make this an important foundational work for a new field of study. If only we had had a critical study of communication when the Gutenberg revolution was beginning!" --Howard Rheingold, author of "The Virtual Community" and "Smart Mobs""This expansive book functions as both survey and call to action. Even as they map the shifting contours of an emergent field, the editors and contributors warn against the deadening force of disciplinarity. They encourage a nimble, flexible formulation of cyberculture studies, one that can keep pace with the rapid pulse of technological change and, more importantly, also address the injustices wrought of life in a networked age. Like the best traditions of cultural studies, they aim not just to describe our moment but to matter in the world." --Tara McPherson, USC School of Cinema-TelevisionStarting
Cyberfeminism, next protocols - Claudia Reiche, Verena Kuni, eds.
If gender is not obsolete, there is a stake in reformulating it under conditions governed by the dominance of the Digital, and testing its capacities to subvert cultural practices. Cyberfeminism. Next Protocols presents an introduction to a global constellation of cyberfeminist activity, documenting approaches to the field in art, theory, and activism.
Jacket Description. "With approaches coming from art, theory and activism cyberFeminism, Next Protocols invents and documents a cybereminism which is dedicated to the wilderness of precise critique and experimental thinking."--BOOK JACKET