Archive For The “Communication Media Studies” Category
By Donald P. Cushman
ISBN-10: 0873959108
ISBN-13: 9780873959100
The matter of conversation in interpersonal relationships is a critical subject matter in our age.
By Teun A. van Dijk
ISBN-10: 0805800646
ISBN-13: 9780805800647
First released in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa corporation.
By Albert Moran
ISBN-10: 1841503061
ISBN-13: 9781841503066
Beginning round 2003, the expansion of curiosity within the style of fact indicates has ruled the sector of tv stories. even if, targeting this style has tended to sideline the much more major emergence of this system structure as a principal mode of industrial and tradition within the new tv panorama. TV codecs around the globe redresses this stability and heralds the emergence of an immense, fascinating, and difficult zone of tv stories. themes explored contain truth television, makeover courses, sitcoms, expertise indicates, and fiction serials, in addition to broadcaster administration regulations, construction determination chains, and viewers participation approaches. This seminal paintings might be of substantial curiosity to media students worldwide.
By Cecelia Tichi
ISBN-10: 0812237633
ISBN-13: 9780812237634
From robber barons to giant CEOs, from the exertions unrest of the Eighties to the mass layoffs of the Nineteen Nineties, American Gilded Ages--one within the early 1900s, one other within the ultimate years of the 20 th century--mirror one another of their laissez-faire extra and rampant social crises. either eras have ignited the civic passions of investigative writers who've drafted diagnostic blueprints for urgently wanted swap. The compelling narratives of the muckrakers--Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, and Ray Stannard Baker between them--became best-sellers and prize-winners 100 years in the past; this day, Cecelia Tichi notes, they've got came upon their useful successors in writers resembling Barbara Ehrenreich, Eric Schlosser, and Naomi Klein. In Exposes and extra Tichi explores the 2 Gilded a while in the course of the lens in their muckrakers. Drawing from her massive and wide-ranging paintings in American stories, Tichi information how the writers of the 1st muckraking new release used fact-based narratives in magazines similar to McClure's to awaken the U.S. public to civic motion in an period of unbridled commercial capitalism and worry of the barbarous immigrant "dangerous classes." providing a damning cultural research of the recent Gilded Age, Tichi depicts a booming, insecure, citadel the USA of bulked up child strollers, McMansion housing, and an obsession with money-as-lifeline in an period of deregulation, yawning source of revenue gaps, and idolatry of the industry and its rock-star CEOs. not anyone has captured this era of corrosive growth extra acutely than the crowd of nonfiction writers who burst at the scene within the past due Nineteen Nineties with their exposes of the fast-food undefined, the realm of low-wage paintings, insufficient wellbeing and fitness care,corporate branding, and the multi-billion-dollar legal undefined. And nowhere have those authors--Ehrenreich, Schlosser, Klein, Laurie Garrett, and Joseph Hallinan--revealed extra approximately their emergence as writers and the connections among journalism and literary narrative than within the wealthy and insightful interviews that around out the e-book. With ardour and wit, Exposes and extra brings a literary style modern at a second while the USA has long gone again to the longer term.
By Herman Wasserman
ISBN-10: 0253354927
ISBN-13: 9780253354921
Below a decade after the arrival of democracy in South Africa, tabloid newspapers have taken the rustic through typhoon. the sort of papers -- the day-by-day solar -- is now the biggest within the kingdom, however it has generated controversy for its perceived loss of admire for privateness, brazen sexual content material, and unrestrained truth-stretching. Herman Wasserman examines the good fortune of tabloid journalism in South Africa at a time while international print media are in decline. He considers the social importance of the tabloids and the way they play a job in integrating readers and their day-by-day struggles with the political and social sphere of the recent democracy. Wasserman indicates how those papers have discovered an enormous area of interest in well known and civic tradition principally neglected via the mainstream media and formal political channels.
By Bruce E. Drushel, Kathleen German
ISBN-10: 1441118365
ISBN-13: 9781441118363
ISBN-10: 1441183353
ISBN-13: 9781441183354
The Ethics of rising Media engages with enduring moral questions whereas addressing severe questions bearing on moral barriers on the vanguard of recent media improvement. This assortment offers an extraordinary chance to invite how rising media impact the moral offerings in our lives and the lives of individuals around the globe. Centering on assorted new media kinds from eBay to Wikipedia, each one bankruptcy increases questions on how altering media codecs impact present theoretical realizing of ethics. by means of interrogating conventional moral thought, we will be able to higher comprehend the demanding situations to moral determination making in an age of swiftly evolving media. every one bankruptcy makes a speciality of a selected case in the broader conceptual cloth of moral idea. The case experiences floor the dialogue of ethics in useful functions whereas, whilst, addressing ethical dilemmas that experience plagued us for generations. the explicit purposes will absolutely proceed to spread, however the moral questions will suffer. -- writer description from http://www.continuumbooks.com (Oct. 10, 2011). learn more... content material: voters, shoppers, and tradition. eBay ethics : simulating civility in a single of the recent electronic democracies / Robert MacDougall ; New romance : a electronic media perform within the age of the web / Mel Racho ; Idol issues : the ethics of parasociality / Christopher Bell -- moral practices of conservators and regulators. Rhizomatic recovery : conservation ethics within the age of Wikipedia / Daniel Heath Cull ; the hot pornographers : felony and moral issues of sexting / Brett Lunceford ; i am right here to inform you it is okay : the FCC chairman, electronic television, and mendacity to the govt / Bruce Drushel -- Speech, civility, and privateness. Holocaust denial, our on-line world, and the query of ethical convergence / Priscilla Marie Meddaugh ; privateness and participation within the cloud : moral implications of Google's privateness practices and public verbal exchange / Robert Bodle ; fb : scholar perceptions of moral concerns approximately their on-line presence / Tammy Swenson Lepper -- Propaganda and strategic communcations. New culture/old ethics : what technological determinism can train us approximately new media and public kinfolk ethics / Elspeth Tilley ; Blogola backed posts, and the ethics of running a blog / Ric Jensen -- Journalistic perform. How we touch upon internet journalism : a case examine on discussion present in new articles / Michael Trice ; Citizen reporters and civic accountability : decorum in an age of rising media / Kathleen German. summary: Examines the position of ethics in new media with specific emphasis on particular contexts and purposes. This paintings engages with enduring moral questions whereas addressing serious questions referring to moral barriers on the vanguard of latest media improvement. learn more...
By David Berry
ISBN-10: 140941180X
ISBN-13: 9781409411802
What has develop into often called the Frankfurt institution is usually decreased to a small variety of theorists in media conversation and cultural experiences. tough this trouble, "Revisiting The Frankfurt institution" introduces a much broader theoretical viewpoint via introducing severe exams on a couple of writers linked to the varsity which have been usually marginalized from debate. This publication for that reason expands our knowing by means of addressing the writings of intellectuals who have been both individuals of the college, or have been heavily linked to it, yet frequently missed. It hence brings jointly the newest study of a world staff of specialists to check the paintings of figures similar to the social psychologist Erich Fromm, the philosophy of Siegfried Kracauer, the author on media and communique Leo Lowenthal, introducing Hans Magnus Enzenberger to the talk, when additionally laying off new gentle at the paintings of Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin and Jurgen Habermas. A serious reassessment of the contributions of the Frankfurt tuition and its affiliates to cultural, media and conversation reports, in addition to to our smooth figuring out of latest media know-how and debate in the public sphere, this publication will attract people with pursuits in sociology, philosophy, social psychology, social thought, media and verbal exchange, and cultural reports.
By Jerry Kroth
ISBN-10: 0875862462
ISBN-13: 9780875862460
At the fortieth anniversary of 1 of crucial occasions in American background comes Conspiracy in Camelot: the full historical past of the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a stunning, information-packed quantity from New York's Algora Publishers. Conspiracy in Camelot is a thoroughgoing research of the main suitable facts exposed and published by way of the govt. over the past forty years, and a presentation of the main believable conspiracy theories.From the canopy as much as Mafia murders, fingerprints to dictabelt recordings, a mountain of facts is built-in right into a accomplished standpoint at the assassination. Out of a box of nine confessed assassins within the literature, Professor Kroth conducts 5 interviews with the best grassy knoll suspect, James documents. Marilyn Monroe's sexual liaisons with the Kennedy brothers, JFK's 33 mistresses within the White condo, and J. Edgar Hoover's homosexuality and paranoia underscore the shadowy mental underbelly of 1 of history's maximum detective tales. attaining past the legal measurement, the textual content additionally seems to be on the deep and mysterious symbolism of this mythic story, from the marvelous array of synchronicities among Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln to the uncanny symbolic linkage the tale has to King Arthur and Camelot.
By Hilary Footitt, Andrew Knapp
ISBN-10: 1441146849
ISBN-13: 9781441146847
Liberal democracies have continuously authorised the necessity to visit warfare, although conflict can undermine liberal values. Wars might be received or misplaced, not just at the battlefield, yet within the perceptions of the publics who pay for them. Presentation is accordingly more and more very important.
Starting with the 1st global struggle, the 1st significant conflict fought via liberal democracies after the emergence on mass media, Liberal Democracies at War explores the connection among representations of liberal violence and the ways that the liberal nation knows 'rights' in conflict. specialists within the box discover an important questions similar to:
· How have the violences of conflict perpetrated of their names been communicated to publics of liberal democracies?
· How have representations of clash replaced through the years?
· How some distance have the sufferers of liberal wars been capable of insert their tales into the record?
By Jo Reichertz, Manfred Schneider
ISBN-10: 3531149326
ISBN-13: 9783531149325
Der Band zeichnet die Sozialgeschichte des Geständnisses nach. Ausgegangen wird von der those, dass sich ein Geständnis nicht aus selbstverständlichen Gründen herleiten lässt, sondern auf komplexen Voraussetzungen beruht. Auf Seiten des einer Straftat Beschuldigten stellt sich nämlich die Frage, weshalb er einen Sachverhalt einräumen soll, die u.U. sehr schwerwiegende Folgen für ihn hat. Auf Seiten der Vernehmer entsteht das challenge, wie bei einer Vernehmung ohne Zwangsmittel Gesprächsbereitschaft hergestellt werden kann.