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What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times?What are the cultural consequences if we are informed about ‘everything and anything important’ via television? How are our political, religious and ethnic belongings impacted...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-23
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This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology?...
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Polity
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2013-04-23
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The Politics of Media Policy provides a critical perspective on the dynamics of media policy in the US and UK and offers a comprehensive guide to some of the major points of debate in the media today. While many policymakers boast of the openness and pluralism of their...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-22
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The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young...
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Polity
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2013-04-19
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This timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave and actively pursue scandals whenever they sense corruption. Scandal and Silence argues for a different perspective. Using...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-19
Collection :
Contemporary Political Communication
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The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-19
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Blog Theory offers a critical theory of contemporary media. Furthering her account of communicative capitalism, Jodi Dean explores the ways new media practices like blogging and texting capture their users in intensive networks of enjoyment, production, and...
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Polity
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2013-04-18
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With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literature, Media, Information Systems, Friedrich Kittler has established himself as one of the world's most influential media theorists. He is also one of the most controversial...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
Collection :
Theory and Media
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Interfaces are back, or perhaps they never left. The familiar Socratic conceit from the Phaedrus, of communication as the process of writing directly on the soul of the other, has returned to center stage in today's discussions of culture and media. Indeed Western...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for...
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Polity
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2013-04-16
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Beast. Monster. Savage. Psycho. The glowering menace of Mike Tyson has spooked us for almost two decades. And still we remain fascinated. Why? Ellis Cashmore's answer is disturbing: white society has created Tyson as vengeance for the loss of privilege produced by civil...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
Collection :
Celebrities
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Is Bob Marley the only third world superstar? How did he achieve this unique status? In this captivating new study of one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, Jason Toynbee sheds new light on issues such as Marley's contribution as a musician and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
Collection :
Celebrities
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Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists cannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Quentin Tarantino and Desperate Housewives to Dostoyevsky, Zizek mixes high theory with low culture more engagingly than any other thinker alive today....
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-16
Collection :
Theory and Media
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"Sprechertraining" lautet nicht nur der Buchtitel, es handelt sich wirklich um ein allgemein verständliches Trainingsprogramm zur Präsentation von Texten in den Medien mit praktischen Beispielen und Übungen. Vom einfachen Zwei-Wort-Satz bis zu schwierigen...
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Springer VS
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2013-04-12
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What role can the ordinary citizen perform in news reporting? This question goes to the heart of current debates about citizen journalism, one of the most challenging issues confronting the news media today. In this timely and provocative book, Stuart Allan introduces...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-03
Collection :
Key Concepts in Journalism
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Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a ...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-03
Collection :
Conversations
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WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book Award This path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-04-03
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With the latest insights from the world of communication studies into the nature of corporate reputation, this new addition to Wiley-Blackwell’s series of handbooks on communication and media reflects the growing visibility of large businesses’ ethical profiles, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-03-21
Collection :
Handbooks in Communication and Media
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A Companion to Media Authorship “Gray and Johnson have brought together a stellar group of authors whose works deftly explicate the complexities of negotiating ‘authorship’ across a range of cultural production sites. This definitive collection is an important and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-02-12
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Global Media EthicsGlobal Media EthicsProblems and Perspectives “The book pleads convincingly that news media outlets and practitioners should urgently reconsider their practices and norms in a world gone global and digitally convergent. The various contributions...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-01-10
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