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Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781600211898
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Advances in Communications and Media Research written by and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Seth Giddings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501318292
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Gameworlds written by Seth Giddings and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contemporary everyday life and media cultures. Seth Giddings looks to fill a gap by focusing on the relationship between the actual and virtual worlds of play in everyday life. He addresses both the continuities and differences between digital play and longer-established modes of play. The 'gameworlds' title indicates both the virtual world designed into the videogame and the wider environments in which play is manifested: social relationships between players; hardware and software; between the virtual worlds of the game and the media universes they extend (e.g. Pokémon, Harry Potter, Lego, Star Wars); and the gameworlds generated by children's imaginations and creativity (through talk and role-play, drawings and outdoor play). The gameworld raises questions about who, and what, is in play. Drawing on recent theoretical work in science and technology studies, games studies and new media studies, a key theme is the material and embodied character of these gameworlds and their components (players' bodies, computer hardware, toys, virtual physics, and the physical environment). Building on detailed small-scale ethnographic case studies, Gameworlds is the first book to explore the nature of play in the virtual worlds of video games and how this play relates to, and crosses over into, everyday play in the actual world.
Author : Josef Trappel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317482271
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book European Media in Crisis written by Josef Trappel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the financial markets collapsed in 2008, the media industry was affected by a major slump in advertising revenues, and a formerly highly successful business model fell into a state of decay. This economic crisis has threatened core social values of contemporary democracies, such as freedom, diversity and equality. Taking a normative and policy perspective, this book discusses threats and opportunities for the media industry in Europe: What are the implications of the crisis for professional journalism, the media industry, and the process of political communication? Can non- state and non-market actors profit from the crisis? And what are media policy answers at the national and European level?
Author : Daya Kishan Thussu
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412933641
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book War and the Media written by Daya Kishan Thussu and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-05-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `No book is more timely than this collection, which analyses brilliantly the Western media′s relentless absorption into the designs of dominant, rapacious power′ - John Pilger `A most timely book, with many valuable insights′ - Martin Bell O.B.E `It has long been known that the outcome of war is deeply influenced by the battle to win ′hearts and minds′. This book provides a stimulating set of perspectives which combine the analyses of prominent academics with the experiences of leading journalists′ - Professor Tom Woodhouse, University of Bradford `This volume represents an all-star cast of authors who have a tremendous amount of knowledge about media and world conflict. One of its strengths is that it doesn′t focus entirely narrowly on media, but puts the discussion of media issues in the context of changes in the world order in military doctrine′ - Professor Daniel C. Hallin, University of California `This book comes just in time. A coherent and wide-ranging collection of data, analyses and insights that help our understanding of the complex interaction between communication and conflict. A major intellectual contribution to critical thinking about the early 21st century′ - Cees J Hamelink, Professor International Communication, University of Amsterdam With what new tools do governments manage the news in order to prepare us for conflict? Are the media responsible for turning conflict into infotainment? Is reporting gender specific? How do journalists view their role in covering distant wars? This book critically examines the changing contours of media coverage of war and considers the complexity of the relationship between mass media and governments in wartime. Assessing how far the political, cultural and professional contexts of media coverage have been affected by 9/11 and its aftermath, the volume also explores media representations of the `War on Terrorism′ from regional and international perspectives, including new actors such as the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera - the pan-Arabic television network. One key theme of the book is how new information and communication technologies are influencing the production, distribution and reception of media messages. In an age of instant global communication and round-the-clock news, powerful governments have refined their public relations machinery, particularly in the way warfare is covered on television, to market their version of events effectively to their domestic as well as international viewing public. Transnational in its intellectual scope and in perspectives, War and the Media includes essays from internationally known academics along with contributions from media professionals working for leading broadcasters such as BBC World and CNN.
Author : Jan Zielonka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198747535
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Media and Politics in New Democracies written by Jan Zielonka and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is power being mediated in new democracies? Can media function independently in the unstable and polarised political environment experienced after the fall of autocracy? Do major shifts in economic and ownership structures help or hinder the quality of the media? How much can new media laws alter old journalistic habits and political cultures? And how do new technologies impact the media and democracy? This book examines these questions, drawing on a vast set of data assembled by a large international project.
Author : Noha Mellor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461644704
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Making of Arab News written by Noha Mellor and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-28 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since September 11, Arab and American journalists have been trading barbs, accusing each other of bias and a lack of objectivity. But is news coverage in Arab countries all that different from American coverage? The Making of Arab News draws comparisons, including examples of Arabic news language and their English translations, to show how Arab news values have been Americanized and how these values are reflected in the language used in the Arab news. Noha Mellor further discusses claims that the current development in the Arab news media could be the first step toward democratization.
Author : Peter Hühn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110218909
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Point of View, Perspective, and Focalization written by Peter Hühn and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories do not actually exist in the world but are created and structured- modeled- through the process of mediation, i.e. through the means and techniques by which they are represented. This is an important field, not only for narratology but a
Author : Charmaine Pereira
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783600144
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Changing Narratives of Sexuality written by Charmaine Pereira and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Narratives of Sexuality examines the tensions and contradictions in constructions of gender, sexuality and women's empowerment in the various narrations of sexuality told by and about women. From storytelling to women's engagement with state institutions, stories of unmarried women and ageing women, a sex scandal and narrations of religious influence on women's subjectivities and sexualities, this impressive collection explores sexuality in a wide range of national contexts in the global South. The authors analyse what scope exists for women to subvert repressive norms and conceptions of heterosexuality, interweaving rich, contextual detail with theoretical concerns.
Author : Martin Scott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000857697
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Humanitarian Journalists written by Martin Scott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the unique reporting practices of humanitarian journalists – an influential group of journalists defying conventional approaches to covering humanitarian crises. Based on a 5-year study, involving over 150 in-depth interviews, this book examines the political, economic and social forces that sustain and influence humanitarian journalists. The authors argue that – by amplifying marginalised voices and providing critical, in-depth explanations of neglected crises – these journalists show us that another kind of humanitarian journalism is possible. However, the authors also reveal the heavy price these reporters pay for deviating from conventional journalistic norms. Their peripheral position at the ‘boundary zone’ between the journalistic and humanitarian fields means that a humanitarian journalist’s job is often precarious – with direct implications for their work, especially as ‘watchdogs’ for the aid sector. As a result, they urgently need more support if they are to continue to do this work and promote more effective and accountable humanitarian action. A rigorous study of how unique professional practices can be produced at the ‘boundary zone’ between fields, this book will interest students and scholars of journalism and communication studies, sociology and humanitarian studies. It will also appeal to those interested in studies of news and media work as occupational identities.
Author : Janet A. Bridges
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781594546051
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Newspaper Competition in the Millennium written by Janet A. Bridges and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology in the 21st century has redesigned most editorial jobs and extended the potential reach of any publication, no matter how small . In effect, not only the individual business models but also the overall industry competitive model has changed. No longer confined to serving a physically defined environment, individual newspapers can set their own goals, both for news distribution and for advertising reach, without concern for physical restrictions. And the continual sales of newspaper properties result in mergers, increased clustering and other types of group alliances. The newspaper industry is also affected competitively by employee recruitment and retention, the non-daily market, other news-related media and non-news carriers of advertising. The industry-related technology has in effect exploded, reaching every news medium in some way. Within the framework of the exploding technological environment, the country's economy and changing demographics have created increased challenges for an industry so dependent on advertising revenue and reader reach. This volume explores the competitive issues as they relate to the industry at this time.
Author : Daniel A. Berkowitz
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412967651
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Cultural Meanings of News written by Daniel A. Berkowitz and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is news? Why does news turn out like it does? What factors influence the creation, production, and dissemination of news? Cultural Meanings of News takes on these deceptively simple questions through an essential collection of seminal and contemporary studies by leaders in the fields of mass communication and media studies. Similar in format and purpose to editor Dan Berkowitz's award-winning Social Meanings of News, this new volume represents a conceptual update, a continuation of the discourse about the nature of news and how it comes to be, moving ideas ahead from the earlier tradition of sociological approaches to the more pervasive cultural perspectives that inform understandings about news. Cultural Meanings of News provides a carefully selected set of readings, organized into thematic areas that each probe a dimension of the literature: from sociological roots to cultural perspectives; news as narrative and cultural text; newswork as cultural ritual; news as cultural myth; news and its interpretive communities; news as a source and reflection of collective memory; toward the future of news research. This text-reader provides students and scholars with first-hand exposure to cultural approaches to the study of news, while also providing an organizing framework for understanding the commonalties and differences between threads in the research. The goals are to engage readers through guided immersion in the material.
Author : Manfred Kops
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825808718
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book A Revenue-based Methodology for the Classification and Comparison of Broadcasting Systems written by Manfred Kops and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a methodology for the classification and comparison of broadcasting systems, both for positive and normative analyses. It is based on the assumption that the revenue structures of broadcasters determine the incentives for the broad'casters' staffs, and that these incentives in turn determine the broadcasters' program outputs (content, journalistic and artistic style, target audiences etc.) and its private and public effects.
Author : Kushchu, Ibrahim
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1591408865
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Mobile Government: An Emerging Direction in e-Government written by Kushchu, Ibrahim and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides selected examples of current developments from various countries in terms of technology, applications and services, and various real world m-government examples, their evaluations, challenges and opportunities. It contains introductory knowledge on m-Government, and then moves on to a deeper examination of various applications, that are significant in terms of current and future developments in m-Government"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Noha Mellor
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748634126
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Modern Arab Journalism written by Noha Mellor and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Arab Journalism offers a new outlook in studying Arab news media. It approaches its subject from an innovative angle, asking a series of key questions: * How is Arab journalism different from or similar to journalism in other countries? * What defines the tasks of journalists? * Who has access to this field? * How is power distributed inside the field of Arab journalism? * When were the media programs launched at Arab universities and what characterizes them? Although the field of Arab journalism has received tremendous attention from the public as well as journalistic circles around the world in recent times, this book presents the first detailed exploration of the area, opening up a new research agenda and challenging the concepts taken for granted in Arab media scholarship.
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Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845441583
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Genres of Digital Documents written by and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of genres the fusion of content, purpose and form of communicative actions stretches back hundreds of years to the beginnings of self-reflective human communication. Greek philosophers and orators recognized that the content of the message is not always its most important aspect; rather, the delivery, the context, and the rhetorical structure all play complementary roles in the subtle but profound act of one human being transferring information to another and thereby creating meaning from that transfer.
Author : Anthony Barker
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443807052
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Television, Aesthetics and Reality written by Anthony Barker and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays seeks to focus on three areas where television has recently been in an intriguing state of flux. Taking as our background the emergence of multimedia conglomerates and cash-rich cable channels, we look at the way old national terrestrial channels and the brash new internationally commercialized ones have innovated in the domain of television programming. In all there are fourteen original essays, an introduction to the book’s theme by the editor and a foreword by Professor Annette Hill. Section one “Realizing the Real” looks at contemporary patterns of television consumption and the presentational styles which package the real in news, current affairs and other ‘live’ television formats. Essays on rhetorical strategies in the news coverage of the war in Iraq, on national and international inflections of Sky News in Europe and coverage of the recent EURO2004 football tournament, as well the multi-channel reporting of a prominent paedophilia scandal, are presented in this section. They all analyse the extent to which the grounded and the local are threatened and distorted by hegemonic forces in media today. The findings of a comprehensive new study of Portuguese social practices and viewing habits are also featured in this section. Section Two “Realizing Performance” addresses the way new trends in reality programming and other documentary practices have impacted on fiction and entertainment television. There are essays on the recent wave of British television comedy heavily influenced by TV newsmagazine and fly-on-the-wall documentary styles and two pieces on new American series, 24 and CSI, which have revolutionized the narrative parameters and evidential base for thrillers and cop shows respectively, coming up with new ways to ‘perform’ space, time and science. Finally there is an essay on Nigel Kneale’s The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968), a survivor from the era of the single play who seems to anticipate the future of television in reality-based gameshow-style entertainment. Each of these essays shows that the success of these programmes is dependent on a fresh restylization of the conventions and formulas which govern mainstream television programming. They therefore see the representation of the real in fiction as primarily an aesthetic reappraisal. Section Three “Performing the Real” looks at the explosion in reality television programming itself. It focuses on the coming to pass of 70s and 80s theorists’ visions of both a passive voyeuristic society and one increasingly at peace with the notion of surveillance. We have been progressively acculturated to watching and being watched. Orwellian anxiety has given way to Baudrillardian acceptance of the message and the medium fused in a new order of mediated reality or hyperreality. Essays refer specifically to the globalization of shows and formats and their local inflections and to coverage of reality shows in print media and on the net. There are essays on The Bachelor and gender stereotyping, Joe Millionaire and the conventions of melodrama, and two on Big Brother, one on the problems of communication within a sealed environment and another on its reception in Portugal. Concerns about the self and its authenticity are consistency raised in all the essays of this section.
Author : Melanie Swalwell
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786451203
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Computer Gaming written by Melanie Swalwell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays situates the digital gaming phenomenon alongside broader debates in cultural and media studies. Contributors to this volume maintain that computer games are not simply toys, but rather circulate as commodities, new media technologies, and items of visual culture that are embedded in complex social practices. Apart from placing games within longer arcs of cultural history and broader critical debates, the contributors to this volume all adopt a pedagogical and theoretical approach to studying games and gameplay, drawing on the interdisciplinary resources of the humanities and social sciences, particularly new media studies. In eight essays, the authors develop rich and nuanced understandings of the aesthetic appeals and pleasurable engagements of digital gameplay. Topics include the role of "cheats" and "easter eggs" in influencing cheating as an aesthetic phenomenon of gameplay; the relationship between videogames, gambling, and addiction; players' aesthetic and kinaesthetic interactions with computing technology; and the epistemology and phenomenology of popular strategy-based wargames and their relationship with real-world military applications. Notes and a bibliography accompany each essay, and the work includes several screenshots, images, and photographs.
