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Bücher der Reihe Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture

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  • - Minding the Gap
     
    82,00 €

    Critiques global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technology. Starting with the state of international communications, this work covers cases on online news, pornography, democracy, policies for women's development, violence against women, information workers, print media and telecentres.

  • - When Politics and Popular Culture Converge
    von Liesbet Van Zoonen
    63,00 €

  • - TV News Images of Middle Eastern Terror and War
    von Nitzan Ben-Shaul
    73,00 €

    Analyzes images on global CNN, Israeli IBA, and Palestinian PATV that contribute to how the violence in the Middle East is framed. This book draws from critical media theory and approaches out of cinema studies to examine how dominant ideologies are embedded in mainstream TV news.

  • - Consolidation in the Motion Picture and Television Industries
    von William M. Kunz
    67,00 - 177,00 €

    Explains conglomeration and regulation in the film and television industries, covering its history as well as the contemporary scene. Useful as a supplement for a variety of media courses, this text includes synopses of key media regulations and policies, discussion questions, a glossary, and entertaining boxed features.

  • - Toward a Transcultural Political Economy
     
    78,00 €

    This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications, focusing on areas of the state, the market, and society. Wielding a political-economic view of communication and culture, this international group of authors follows interesting developments, from communication NGOs in Africa to affirmative action in India's information technology job market. Other cases spotlight China, Singapore, Venezuela, Palestine, Arab nations, Ghana, Canada, the United States, Russia, and the European Union. Theoretically driven and empirically grounded, Global Communications avoids alarmist or celebratory approaches.

  • - A Global Introduction
    von Ellie Rennie
    65,00 - 170,00 €

    Helps readers understand the fascination with do-it-yourself media. Useful for students, this guide lays out the difficult theoretical terrain that community media theory and advocacy has located itself in, including the ideals of participation, community, and social change.

  • - Science and Humanism in UNESCO's Approach to Globalization
    von Vincenzo Pavone
    164,00 €

    Science and Humanism in UNESCO's Approach to Globalization studies the influence of scientific humanism on the emergence and development of UNESCO's original approach to globalization. It also studies the role that UNESCO tried to play in the international system through the promotion of its own specific account of globalization.

  • - Work and Life in an Age of Globalization
     
    92,00 €

    An examination of a range of technological issues at stake in the European Union, from employment and the labour market, to implications for political processes and democracy. It discerns social trends but finds there is considerable room to use the technologies as a force for social change.

  • von Alan O'Connor
    60,00 - 148,00 €

    Raymond Williams, a Welsh media critic and a pioneer of cultural studies, believed traditional biographies focus on individuals while isolating them from their communities. The author introduces us to Williams and his time period of social change and crisis.

  • - DIY Web Culture and Sexual Politics
    von Katrien Jacobs
    67,00 €

    Delves into the aesthetics and politics of sexuality in the era of do-it-yourself (DIY) Internet pornography. This work offers a critical analysis of Web culture as digital artistry and of the corresponding heightened government surveillance and censorship of the Internet.

  • - Minding the Gap
     
    187,00 €

    Critiques global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technology. Starting with the state of international communications, this work covers cases on online news, pornography, democracy, policies for women's development, violence against women, information workers, print media and telecentres.

  • - Global Debates over Media Standards
     
    95,00 €

    Coverage of the "mad cow disease" outbreak in the mid 1990s was accused by many commentators of starting a widespread public panic. These essays examine the diminishing coverage of serious news, often described as "tabloidisation", and study what is going on and what its implications are.

  • - Developments and Controversies in the Twentieth Century
    von Slavko Splichal
    88,00 €

    A survey of the historical roots, theoretical foundations and normative claims of 20th-century conceptualizations of public opinion. It examines research strategies such as polling, the "spiral of silence" model, and the role of the media in the formation and expression of public opinion.

  • von Harold Adams Innis
    70,00 - 159,00 €

  • - Women, Men, and Identity Politics
    von Karen Ross
    117,00 €

    Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena such as Big Brother, Terminator, girls' use of mobile phones, women news editors, the Wonderbra generation, the Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin phenomena, and so on.

  • - Towards a New, More Just, and More Efficient World Information and Communication Order
    von The MacBride Commission
    88,00 €

    This text came out of hundreds of international studies and proposed reforms for global communication media to ensure a free flow of information.

  • - A Beginner's Guide
    von Bruce Girard, Amy Mahan & Sean O'Siochru
    61,00 €

    This volume 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. It raises key questions and suggests where more complete answers can be found.

  • von Harold Adams Innis
    50,00 €

    Talks about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. This work traces humanity's movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media. It presents the author's own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge.

  • - Ownership and Control of the Celestial Jukebox
    von Patrick Burkart & Tom McCourt
    71,00 €

    Has copyright protection gone too far in keeping the music from the masses? This book shows how the online music industry establishes the model for digital distribution, cultural access, and consumer privacy. It also explores the implications of downloading music.

  • - Campaign Consulting, Communications, and Corporate Financing
    von Gerald Sussman
    73,00 €

  • - Television Programming, Viewers, and Who's Really in Control
    von Eileen R. Meehan
    50,00 €

    Dispels the myth that the television industry is giving viewers the programming they want to see and, thus, we as viewers are responsible for the existence of shows like "Fear Factor" and yet another "Survivor". Introducing us to the political economy of television, the author covers programming and organizations that seek industry accountability.

  • - Power, Media, Gender, and Technology
    von Sue Curry Jansen
    82,00 €

    Looking at issues of globalization, science, politics, gender, etc. this book advocates a new agenda not only for communication research, but also for the writing that comes out of it.

  • - Constituents of Communication Research, 1840s to 1920s
    von Hanno Hardt
    75,00 €

    This text shows how and why US educational reforms must seek to build upon rather than downplay the native culture and language of minority students. The work includes stories from teachers and students that show what works - and what doesn't - in creating effective educational opportunties.

  • - Orson Welles, the Radio Years, 1934-1952
    von Paul Heyer
    77,00 €

    Well-known for his work in film and theater as director, actor, and writer, Welles' influence in the field of radio has often been overlooked for the more glamorous entertainment of his movies. The Medium and the Magician is a comprehensive review of Welles's radio career, devoted to assessing his radio artistry and influence in the field. Visit our website for sample chapters!

  • - Film Production in the Global Economy
    von Tom O'Regan & Ben Goldsmith
    85,00 - 196,00 €

    The Film Studio sheds new light on the evolution of global film production, highlighting the role of film studios worldwide. The authors explore the contemporary international production environment, identifying various types of film studios and investigating the consequences for Hollywood, international film production, and the studio locations.

  • - Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting
     
    78,00 €

    In Hollywood's search for cheap, distinctive, and authentic locations, producers and directors are taking their business to foreign soil. Only one of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees was shot in the United States-The Hours, filmed in Hollywood, Florida. Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of "runaway productions"-the growing practice of producing American films and television programs on foreign shores. Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher have gathered a group of contributors who seek to explain the phenomenon from historical, political, economic, and cultural perspectives, using case studies, challenges to contemporary screen, media, and globalization theories, and analyses of changing government politics toward cultural industries.

  • - Alternative Media in a Networked World
     
    88,00 €

    This work covers the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Topics include independent media centres, gay online networks and alternative Web discussion forums, and political journalism and social networks.

  • - The Social Construction of Disability in New Media
    von Gerard Goggin & Christopher Newell
    70,00 €

    This analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers or listeners of new media by policymakers, corporations, programmers and the disabled themselves.

  • von Serge Gutwirth
    71,00 €

    Looking beyond the protection of personal data in the new technological age, Serge Gutwirth advances the thesis that privacy is the safeguard of personal freedom - the safeguard of the individual's freedom to decide who she or he is, what she or he does, and who knows about it.

  • - Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century
     
    87,00 €

    This work explores a mix of topics and issues that link to the heritage of political economy work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere. The topics include market structures and media concentration, regulation and policy, and information poverty.

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