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News andNews Sources offers a fresh introduction to the sociology of news.
It is often suggested that the powerful dominate news agendas. Increasingly however, less powerful groups are employing sophisticated media strategies and new communication technologies to get...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-12-22
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The history of audience research tells us that the relationship between the media and viewers, readers and listeners is complex and requires multiple methods of analysis. In Understanding Audiences, Andy Ruddock introduces students to the range of quantitative and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-12-05
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Increasing attention is being paid to the political uses of the new communication technologies. Digital Democracy offers an invaluable in-depth explanation of what issues of theory and application are most important to the emergence and development of computer-mediated...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-12-05
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`The book makes a successful attempt to map the potentially transformative effects of new media on various aspects of political insitiutions and culture, both at a theorectical and empirical level. Barrie Axford's discussion of the changing nature of political practice...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-12-05
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In this book, Cees J Hamelink proposes an answer to - how should democratic societies organize cyberspace? - that puts human-rights, rather than profit, at the top of the agenda. He argues that conventional ethical approaches are all seriously flawed. There is a growing...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-11-23
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Combining institutional textual and audience analysis, this book introduces students to the factors which have shaped television's development in contemporary Europe, and invites them to assess the issues that are at stake in its future.
Divided into three parts, the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-10-04
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This is a lively, practical guide that provides a fascinating linguistic description of six familiar text and discourse types, showing how language works in everyday life to perform its particular purpose. Through original examples, students are introduced to a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-09-12
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Inside Culture offers a fresh and stimulating reassessment of the direction of cultural studies. Nick Couldry argues without apology for cultural studies as a discipline centred around the interrelations of culture and power, with a clear focus on accountable empirical...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2000-05-03
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In this book, Barrie Gunter provides a broad overview of the methodological perspectives adopted by media researchers in their attempt to derive a better understanding of the nature, role and impact of media in society.
By tracing the epistemological and theoretical...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-12-29
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Written as an introduction for beginning students, this book offers a thorough, yet lively, overview of human communication in all its aspects.
Accessibly written and assuming no prior knowledge of the discipline Communication: An Introduction: offers a thorough, yet...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-12-15
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"It's easy to be snobbish about media culture; the great merit of Roger Silverstone's book is to make the reader understand just how important that culture is."
- Richard Sennett, New York University
"A remarkable book which argues for a new paradigm for the study of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-10-22
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Pertti Alasuutari provides a state-of-the-art summary of the field of audience research. With contributions from Ann Gray, Joke Hermes, John Tulloch and David Morley, a case is presented for a new agenda to account for the role of the media in everyday life.
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-08-31
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Information and communication technologies are said to be transforming urban life dramatically and bringing about rapid economic and cultural globalization. This book explores the many fascinating and urgent issues involved by relating advanced theoretical debates to...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1999-04-22
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This book overviews and reconsiders media organizations - the news agencies - which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political economic and cultural studies perspectives, the book: reviews agency...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-10-26
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The European media landscape is changing profoundly. In this wide-ranging and timely text, members of the Euromedia Research Group examine the ways in which national and supranational policy is reacting to these changes.
The contributors consider: the consequences for...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-09-24
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The aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world are investigated in this book. Sean Cubitt casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-08-19
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`This book is worth reading for a number of reasons. It is the first introductory work of critical audience research that suggests how we can study the connection of media consumption in general with every day life, and it also goes beyond its competitors in showing how...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-04-07
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The definition of ideology continues to occupy scholars across a wide range of disciplines. In this book, Teun A van Dijk sketches a challenging new multidisciplinary framework for theorizing ideology. He defines ideology as the basis of the social representations of a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-02-05
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This book moves beyond the narrow focus of much of the work on media and cultural studies to examine the whole process of interaction between the media and the social world. Rejecting approaches which focus only on ownership or discourse or audience reception, this new...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1998-01-29
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A lively and critical introduction to the news media, this book has been written specifically for media students and trainee journalists. Understanding Global News invites the reader to explore contemporary journalistic practice, and questions the assumption that the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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1997-12-08
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