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Book SynopsisIn this long-awaited book Donald Trelford recalls his adventures and misadventures during nearly sixty years in journalism. Described as the 'Rocky Marciano of newspaper politics', he fought off politicians, owners and predators over a quarter-century at The Observer, including Rupert Murdoch, who said afterwards: 'I made the mistake of underestimating Donald Trelford.' One owner sold The Observer because the editor refused to bow to pressure to support Margaret Thatcher. Another tried to sack him for writing the first report of atrocities committed by Robert Mugabe's forces in Zimbabwe. He tells for the first time the inside story of his complex relationship with Tiny Rowland - often tense, sometimes hilarious - and about his role in the notorious Pamella Bordes affair. He recalls how he was held at gunpoint by the FBI and strip-searched by the KGB. How a black dictator poked him in the chest and yelled: 'Keep out of my politics, white man.' While he was editor, The Observer won more press awards than any other newspaper. Trelford himself was described by Peter Preston, the former Guardian editor, as "a crusader...multi-talented, hands-on, a master of sport as well as news, shrewd and decisive. " Written with style and humour, this is a compelling account of an important period in the history of the British press.

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Book SynopsisHow games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation and what we can do about itWarehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use achievements to empty your wallet.Points, badges and leaderboards are creeping into every aspect of modern life. In You've Been Played, game designer Adrian Hon delivers a blistering takedown of how corporations, schools and governments use games and gamification as tools for profit and coercion. These are games that we often have no choice but to play, where losing has heavy penalties. You've Been Played is a scathing indictment of a tech-driven world that wants to convince us that misery is fun, and a call to arms for anyone who hopes to preserve their dignity and autonomy.

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Book SynopsisFew American lives are stranger or wilder than that of Hunter S. Thompson. Born a rebel in Kentucky, Thompson spent a lifetime channelling his energy into such landmark works as FEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGAS - and his provocative style revolutionised writing. Now, for the first time ever, Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour have interviewed Thompson's friends, family and colleagues and woven their memories into a brilliant oral biography. From Hell's Angels leader Sonny Barger, to Ralph Steadman, to Jack Nicholson, more than 100 members of Thompson's inner circle bring into vivid focus the life of a man who was more complicated and talented than any previous portrait has shown. It's all here: the creative frenzies, the love affairs, the drugs, booze and guns, and, ultimately, the tragic suicide. As Thompson was fond of saying, "Buy the ticket, take the ride."Trade ReviewAn excellent oral history tribute to Hunter S. Thompson GQ For those who like their literary entertainment with a little more snarl to it THE DAILY TELEGRAPH A wonderfully entertaining chronicle of Hunter's (life) International Herald Tribune

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Book SynopsisIconic newscaster and Buddhist teacher chronicles the 1960s and ‘70s in India, the Bay Area, and beyondJoin “Scoop” Nisker on a wild ride from West to East and back in his quest for true self and enlightenment. Combining the best elements of memoir and social commentary, Nisker shares his own story to illuminate the spiritual hunger of modern America. His journey begins in Nebraska as the only young man in his small town to be Bar Mitzvah’ed, through the heyday of the Beats and hippies in the Bay Area from his vantage point as a high-profile newscaster, the birth of the environmental movement, and the social and spiritual blossoming of the West. This is a personal, guided tour of the outer and inner movements that joined together into today’s mindfulness movement, written by one of the leaders of both. 

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the reasons behind the declining fortunes of public access channels. Public access, which provided perhaps the boldest experiment in popular media democracy, is in steep decline. While some have argued it is technologically outmoded, Caterino argues that the real reason lies with the rise of a neo-liberal media regime. This regime creates a climate in which we can understand these changes. This book considers the role of neo-liberalism in transforming notions of public obligations and regulation of media that have impacted non-profit media, specifically public access. Neo-liberalism has tried to eliminate public forums and public discourse and weakens institutions of civil society. Though social media is often championed as an arena of communicative freedom, Caterino argues that neo-liberalism has created a colonized social media environment that severely limits popular democracy. Table of Contents1. Public Access in Decline.- 2. The Frankfurt School and its Aftermath.- 3. Public Interest Standards from Radio to Public Television.- 4. The Emergence of Public Access Television.- 5. Neo-liberalism the Public Sphere and the Decline of Public Obligation.- 6. Access Under Attack: Some Examples.- 7. Looking Through the Wrong End of the Telescope: Internet Democracy vs Public Access.- 8. A Future for Public Access?.

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Book SynopsisBeing a successful manager or entrepreneur in the media and digital sector requires creativity, innovation, and performance. It also requires an understanding of the principles and tools of management. Aimed at the college market, this book is a short, foundational volume on media management. It summarizes the major dimensions of a business school curriculum and applies them to the entire media, media-tech, and digital sector. Its chapters cover—in a jargonless, non-technical way—the major functions of management. First, creating a media product: the financing of projects, and the management of technology, HR, production operations, intellectual assets, and government relations. Second, harvesting the product created: market research, marketing, pricing, and distribution. And third, the control loop: media accounting and strategy planning. In the process, this book becomes an indispensable resource for those aiming for a career in the media and digital field, both in startups and established organizations. This book is designed to help those aiming to join the media and digital sector to become creative managers and managerial creatives. It aims to make them more knowledgeable, less blinded by hype, more effective, and more responsible.Trade Review Table of Contents1. Introduction2. The Information Environment3. Production Management in Media and Information4. Technology Management in Media and Information Firms5. Human Resource Management for Media and Information Firms6. Financing Media, Information, and Communication7. Intellectual Asset Management8. Managing Law and Regulation9. Demand and Market Research for Media and Information Products10. Marketing of Media and Information11. Pricing of Media and Information12. Distribution of Media and Information13. Accounting in Media and Information Firms14. Strategy Planning in Media and Information Firms15. Concluding Observations

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Book SynopsisIn today’s information-saturated world, food and drink establishments need not only to offer high-quality products, but also good communication ideas, a unique visual identity and graphic design that stands out from the rest. For these companies, unique branding starts with basic elements such as a logo, slogan, font, and colour scheme, and is finally reflected in the product, packaging and related design. This book focuses on graphic design, showing how the unique visual identity of the food industry can help companies attract consumers and achieve success, providing inspiration for graphic and shop designers and entrepreneurs in this area of business. It includes case studies comprising cafés, restaurants, bars, dessert shops and bakeries.

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Book SynopsisSince the first edition was published in 2009, Patrik Wikström's The Music Industry has become a go-to text for students and scholars. This thoroughly updated third edition provides an international overview of the music industry and its future prospects in the world of global entertainment.The music industry has experienced two turbulent decades of immense change brought about in part by the digital revolution. How has the industry been transformed by these economic and technological upheavals, and how is it likely to change in the future? What is the role of music in this digital age? Wikström illuminates the workings of the industry, deftly capturing the dynamics at work in the production of musical culture between the transnational media conglomerates, the independent music companies and the public. New to this third edition are expanded sections on the changing structure of the music industry, the impact of digitization on music listening practices, and the evolution of music streaming platforms.Engaging and comprehensive, The Music Industry is a must-read for students and scholars of media and communication studies, cultural studies, popular music, sociology and economics.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Music in the Cloud 1 A Copyright Industry 2 Inside the Music Industry 3 Music and the Media 4 Making Music 5 The Social and Creative Music Fan 6 Future Sounds Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe National Basketball Association reaches a global audience via a multiplatform strategy that leverages its uncanny ability to connect fans to all things NBA. Steven Secular brings readers inside the league's global operations and traces the history of the NBA's approach to sports media from its 1980s embrace of cable through the streaming revolution of the twenty-first century. As fans around the world stream games and other league content, NBA teams incorporate foreign languages and cultures into broadcasts to boost their product's appeal to audiences in Brazil, China, and beyond. Secular's analysis reveals how the NBA continues to transform itself into a wildly successful media producer and distributor more akin to a streaming studio than the sports leagues of old even as its media partners and sponsors erase any notion of sports as a civic good. A timely look at a dynamic media landscape, The Digital NBA shows how the games we love became content first and sport a distant secondTrade Review“The book offers a timely and original contribution to an understanding of the current, highly managed transformation of the globally differentiated access to media content. Secular convincingly argues that in many respects the NBA is a frontrunner regarding its global media strategies and thus--similar to Netflix for fictional content--can be taken as a lens into the wider marketization and mediatization of sport in a global multi-platform environment.”--Markus Stauff, University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The International House of Hoops The Court: Event Production, Streaming Television, and the Glocalization of Live Sport The Venue: Silicon Valley, Public Finance, and the Arena as Media Platform The Wires: Dark Fiber, Satellites, and the Global Infrastructures of Streaming Sport The Office: The NBA’s Executive Operation as a Global Media Empire The Couch: At-Home Sport Spectatorship and the Multiplatform Viewing Environment Conclusion: The House That Hoops Built Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSimon Goddard grew up in Wales and Scotland before studying art in the North of England. He later moved to London to work as a music journalist and is now recognised as one of the most unique voices in pop writing. In addition to Simply Thrilled, he has written acclaimed books about The Smiths and Morrissey (Songs That Saved Your Life, Mozipedia), Bowie (Ziggyology) and the Stones (Rollaresque). Mozipedia was voted Mojo magazine readers' Book Of The Year and has since been published in three continents.Trade ReviewSimply Thrilled is a brilliant caper, just like the Postcard label itself * MOJO *At some point, someone was going to write a book about the history of Postcard Records and barely a chapter into Simply Thrilled, you realise it would have been a tragedy if anyone other than Simon Goddard had taken on the job... It’s a testament to Goddard’s masterful storytelling that – once you’ve hooted at the last preposterous tale in Simply Thrilled – the myth looms larger than ever, the music a little more breathlessly brilliant than ever before. -- Pete Paphides * Caught by the River *Wonderful, super and boss! -- Edwyn Collins

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Book SynopsisA riveting memoir by the popular veteran BBC correspondent, examining his desire to become a war reporter and how the nature of the job has changed. Currently presenting the BBC Radio 4 series'Our Man In The Middle East'.

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Book SynopsisHow do you make a song into a global smash hit that is guaranteed to make millions? Read The Song Machine and find out!From Tin Pan Alley and Motown to Rihanna and Taylor Swift, manufactured music has existed since the record industry began. But who are the hit-manufacturers that can create a tune that is so catchy, so wildly addictive, that it sticks in the minds of millions of listeners? In The Song Machine, John Seabrook dissects the workings of this machine, travelling the world to reveal its hidden formulas, and interview its geniuses the hitmakers' at the centre of it all. Hilarious and jaw-droppingly shocking, this book will change how you think and feel about music, as well as how you listen to it.Revelatory, funny, and full of almost unbelievable details', Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food NationAs addictive as its subject' Sunday Times Trade ReviewRevelatory, funny, and full of almost unbelievable details -- Eric Schlosser, author of 'Fast Food Nation'As addictive as its subject * Sunday Times *A gripping investigation of modern hitmaking… Seabrook’s writing is as sleek and swift as a dolphin * New Statesman *This is a fascinating tale about an amazing phenomenon -- Walter Isaacson, author of 'Steve Jobs'Seabrook subtly explores not only the insides of a song, but how a song gets inside us * Observer *Revealing, frightening, funny and unsettling -- Roddy DoyleSeabrook’s book takes the reader into a hidden world behind some of the most high-profile cultural products of the era * Guardian *A highly engaging narrative * Economist *Weaving its way through two-and-a-half decades, one of The Song Machine’s greatest achievements is to situate the pop song within a shifting matrix of technological evolution, diminishing revenue streams, and warring egos * Independent *Seabrook takes us on a lucid and well-researched tour of the places where modern hits are created -- Peter Clark * Literary Review *

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Book SynopsisWhether members of the family are headed to school or work, smartphones accompany family members throughout the day. The growing sophistication of mobile communication has unleashed a proliferation of apps, channels, and platforms that link parents to their children and the key institutions in their lives. While parents may feel empowered by their ability to provide their children assistance with a click on their smartphone, they may also feel pressured and overwhelmed by this need to always be on call for their children. This book focuses on the phenomenon of transcendent parenting, where parents actively use technology to go beyond traditional, physical practices of parenting. In drawing on the experiences of intensely digitally-connected families in Singapore to tell a global story, Sun Sun Lim argues how transcendent parenting can embody and convey, intentionally or not, the parenting priorities in these households. Chapters outline how parents exploit mobile connectivity to transcTrade ReviewAs the world hurtles ever further into an era of perpetual contact with media, Lim offers a fluent and well-informed analysis of the multiple effects of mobile technology on parent-child relationships. She dexterously examines a rich array of parent-child realities across varying social classes and cultures. * James E. Katz, Ph.D, Boston University *Sun Sun Lim's social analysis is robust, insightful, and important for anyone studying any field related to mobile communication. * Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics and Political Science *With richly detailed stories of parental concerns about mobile media and the strategies they embrace to address them, this volume will be of great interest to parents, educators, and everyone who cares about children and contemporary family life in a digital age. * Lynn Schofield Clark, Ph.D, University of Denver *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Transcendent Parenting and the Media Rich Household 2. Parenting Trends Today 3. At Home 4. At School 5. Out and About 6. At Play 7. Mobile Communication and Transcendent Parenting Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing upon fieldwork conducted over 30 years, the author to this text examines the Sri Lankan advertising industry to show how executives draw on their skills as folk ethnographers to Sri Lankanize commodities and practices to make them locally desirable, essentially creating new culture.

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Book SynopsisWe live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali delves into our ideas about localism and their far-reaching repercussions for the discourse of federal media policy and regulation. His critique focuses on the new interest in localism among regulators in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. As he shows, the many different and often contradictory meanings of localism complicate efforts to study local voices. At the same time, market factors and regulators' unwillingness to critically examine local media blunt challenges to the status quo. Ali argues that reconciling the places where we live with the spaces we inhabit will point regulators toward effective policies that strengthens local media. That new approach will again elevate local media to its rightful place as a vital part of the public good.Trade Review"Energetically written. . . . Crucial topics for understanding what is actually going on behind the scenes of your local nightly news."--Sante Fe New Mexican"Shines a needed light on the threats that local broadcasters are currently facing. . . . The conversation about media localism is an important one, and this book raises critical questions and posits thought-provoking ideas for a path forward."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly"The book is well researched. . . . The conversation about media localism is an important one, and this book raises critical questions and posits thought-provoking ideas for a new path forward."--American Journalism"It is the detail in Ali's analysis that is impressive. There is much value in it as just a history of media policy-making at the beginning of the 21st century, as Ali looks at key moments in regulatory processes in each of the territories he covers."--Journalism"This book offers a very interesting contribution to reconsider the approach to local media." --CBQ Critical Reviews"Media's woeful lack of localism is matched by lack of definition about what the term really means. Ali's brilliant dissection of localism in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada provides a foundation for developing strategies to restore our vanished local media."--Michael Copps, former Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission"This landmark book offers a fascinating and invaluable analysis for anyone seeking a critical understanding of 'the local' in our digital age. With elegance and clarity, Ali draws from comparative case studies and key historical contexts to show why democracy still requires media localism--and why an unfettered market can't support it. This is a must-read for policymakers, journalists, and concerned citizens everywhere."--Victor Pickard, author of America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform"Bold and innovative. A scholarly interrogation of significant moves to think through the meaning of community and how various policymakers, politicians, activists, and indeed entrepreneurs have sought to mobilize these concerns."--Des Freedman, author of The Contradictions of Media Power

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Reporting for China is a fascinating and imaginatively conceived study of Chinese correspondents who work abroad. . . . Readers beleaguered by recent US sparring over fake news and alternative facts will find in this study a refreshingly concrete exploration of the tension, unblinkingly relayed by Nyíri. . . . The book offers, in a very accessible style, a nuanced and vivid account of a domain that has long been subject to overly facile assumptions about what freedom of speech actually entails and how it comes to be curtailed." -- Louisa Schein * American Ethnologist *"As the pioneering work in this field, Nyiri’s vibrant and important book opens up a lot of new questions about China’s global media expansion and soft power attempts. It spearheads an exciting new direction in the analysis of Chinese media and cultural studies." -- Maria Repnikova * China Review International: A Journal of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in Chinese Studies *"The first extensive, systematic study of Chinese journalists who work as foreign correspondents for Chinese audiences. . . . A must-read for those interested in the machinations of Chinese politics and the Chinese state. . . . A fine example of how anthropologists study the media . . . valuable not just for anthropologists but also for scholars and students in the fields of media, communications, and journalism." -- Wanning Sun * The China Journal *"This is an original, nuanced, and informative study that deserves a wide audience." * Pacific Affairs *"Reporting for China: How Chinese Correspondents Work with the World is a fascinating account of the expanding ways the Chinese are engaging with the world. . . . [and] is successful not only in revealing the hidden dynamics and tensions that compel Chinese foreign correspondents to report the way they do, but also in shedding light on the Chinese government’s intentions and influence as these pertain to the news media." * Anthropology of Work Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: China and the World 1. The Worldwide Expansion of China’s Media 2. How Stories are Made 3. How Correspondents Work 4. Finding the “China Peg” Epilogue: Cosmopolitan Professionals in the Service of the Nation

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Book SynopsisFrom a wartime beach in Wales to the gleaming skyscrapers of twenty-first-century Manhattan, the extraordinary career of Fleet Street legend Harold Evans has spanned five decades of tumultuous social, political and creative change. Just how did a working class Lancashire boy, who failed the eleven-plus, rise to a position where he could so effectively give voice to the unheard?Born in the bleak years between the wars in the sprawl of Greater Manchester into a thrifty, diligent and loving family, Evans inherited only the privilege of his parents'' example. Theirs was a work ethic that led Evans through night school classes, national service and a passionate commitment to regional life, and, finally, to his unassailably successful editorship of one of our greatest newspapers, the Sunday Times. Whether unpicking the murderous chaos of Bloody Sunday, pursuing a foreign correspondent''s murderers or uncovering the atrocity of Thalidomide, this consummate newsman evokes his contagTrade Review** 'In Harold Evans's cottage, behind a beach dune in Quogue, Long Island, there is a black-and-white photograph of a news conference at The Sunday Times when Evans was editor. "For me," he writes, "it has the exalted resonance of a Nocturne painting" by Whistler. It represents "the culmination of my life in journalism, 35 years, from reporting in Lancashire to the Manchester Evening News, to foreign reporting in Europe and south-east Asia and the United States for the Evening News and The Guardian, to five years of daily newspaper editing in Darlington and then 14 more years editing The Sunday Times of London * Melvyn Bragg TELEGRAPH *** 'Reading these evocative and enjoyable memoirs, one feels the warmth of his sunny personality even as the lights seem to be going outin much of print journalism. He saw the best of it - o, lucky man! * Robert Harris SUNDAY TIMES *** 'Amid the pervasive gloom surrounding the future of newspapers, Harold Evans has produced a memoir to lift the spirits * Lionel Barber FINANCIAL TIMES *** 'SIR Harold "Harry" Evans remains one of the great figures of modern journalism. For this reason, and because the kind of campaigning, reporting-based work he stood for is threatened as never before, his autobiography, written as he turned 80, is both * ECONOMIST *

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Book SynopsisIn this critical primer, Michael Z. Newman introduces newcomers to the key concepts, issues, and vocabulary of media studies. Across ten chapters, Newman examines topics from text and audience to citizenship and consumerism, drawing on a myriad of examples of media old and new. Film and TV rub shoulders with mobile games and social media, and popular music and video sharing platforms with journalism and search engines. While the book takes a critical, cultural approach, it covers topics that apply across many kinds of media scholarship, bridging the humanities and the social sciences and looking at media as a global phenomenon. It considers media in relation to society and its unequal structures of power, and relates media representations to their conditions of production in media industries and consumption in the everyday lives of audiences and users. Spanning the historical periods of mass media and online participatory culture, it also probes assumptions about media that wTrade Review"Bravo to Michael Newman for expertly rendering the dense and sometimes unwieldy discipline of media studies into an approachable and useable form for instructors and students. Having studied and taught media studies for a quarter of a century, this is the first book I have encountered that adequately captures and explains a media studies approach for undergraduate students. Deeply grounded in key classic and contemporary work of the field, Newman deftly explores the broad range of media with which today’s students engage. Critical questions related to race, gender, and sexuality are impressively integrated throughout the book. Finally, the ‘toolkit' approach makes this an infinitely flexible text for instructors and students."Kathleen Battles, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations, Oakland University, USA"The Media Studies Toolkit skillfully breaks down its many approaches and concepts, producing always accessible, smart and up-to-date discussions. Keeping in mind the politics of media, Michael Z. Newman demystifies and brings alive the critical complexities of media studies, whether focusing on "‘legacy"’ media, the buzz of participatory culture, or doing a textual analysis. Ranging from the classic model of industry-text-audience, to key issues of media regulation, representation and globalisation, this accomplished book really is a one-stop source of clear-headed wisdom, analysis and ‘how-to’ guidance."Matt Hills, Professor of Journalism and Media, University of Huddersfield, UK "Michael Z. Newman's The Media Studies Toolkit is a welcome addition to the field of film and media studies. Newman's accessible and engaging writing in addition to the many varied examples that assist in explaining the foundational concepts of the field make this text a valued contribution to training up students to become more critically literate consumers and creators." Kristen J. Warner, Associate Professor of Journalism and Creative Media, University of Alabama, USA"Michael Newman accomplishes the seemingly impossible: offering an accessible, engaging, and inclusive overview of media studies. Skillfully blending classic concepts with contemporary examples drawn across a wide range of media forms, The Media Studies Toolkit provides students with a welcoming introduction to where the field has been and where it is going. Equally important, Newman shows how to research, apply, and connect ideas drawn from both humanistic and social scientific studies of media."Alisa Perren, Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film and Co-Director of the Center for Entertainment and Media Industries, The University of Texas at Austin, USATable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Industry 3. Text 4. Audience 5. Representation 6. Ideology 7. Policy and Regulation 8. Citizenship 9. Consumerism 10. Technology 11. Global and Local

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of this innovative textbook provides a comprehensive overview of mass communication theories, as well as their origins and empirical supports in psychology, sociology, political science, and philosophy. Each chapter presents a specific theory, describing its basic structure in simple formal terms and providing an accessible summary of the research studies and scholarly writings from which it developed. It breaks each complex theory down into five or six interlinked basic propositions, making them easily digestible for students. This new edition includes up-to-date research; improved coverage of all theories presented; expanded treatments of theories such as cultivation theory, the spiral of silence, and framing; contemporary and social media examples; chapter discussion questions; and informative charts and figures. This textbook serves as an accessible core text for undergraduate and graduate Mass Communication, ComTable of ContentsChapter 1: SHAPING THE AMERICAN MASS MEDIA: AN OVERVIEW Chapter 2: INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGINS, NATURE, AND USES OF THEORIES Chapter 3: THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF REALITY: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF PHILOSOPHY Chapter 4: PUBLIC OPINION AS SHAPED BY THE PRESS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF POLITICAL SCIENCE Chapter 5: COGNITIVE PROCESSING: THE CONTRIBUTION OF PSYCHOLOGY Chapter 6: THE CONCEPT OF MASS SOCIETY: THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIOLOGY Chapter 7: JAMES BRYCE’S 19th CENTURY THEORY OF PUBLIC OPINION AND THE PRESS Chapter 8: WALTER LIPPMAN’S 1920s THEORY OF UNINTENTIONAL NEWS DISTORTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE NATURE OF PUBLIC OPINION AND PUBLIC POLICY Chapter 9: THE "MAGIC BULLET" THEORY OF UNIFORM EFFECTS Chapter 10: THE SELECTIVE AND LIMITED INFLUENCES THEORY Chapter 11: THE TWO-STEP FLOW OF COMMUNICATION THEORY Chapter 12: GATEKEEPING THEORY Chapter 13: AGENDA-SETTING THEORY Chapter 14: FRAMING THEORY Chapter 15: USES AND GRATIFICATIONS THEORY Chapter 16: MODELING BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY Chapter 17: SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS THEORY Chapter 18: MEDIA-INFLUENCED DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION THEORY Chapter 19: A THEORY OF AUDIENCE AND MEDIA DEPENDENCY ON POPULAR CULTURE Chapter 20: CULTIVATION THEORY Chapter 21: CRITICAL CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES: INTERPRETATIONS OF MEDIA INFLUENCES ON INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETY Chapter 22: ADDITIONAL THEORIES AND CONCEPTS

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Book SynopsisThis book is a first-of-its-kind critical interdisciplinary introduction to the economic, political, cultural, and technological dimensions of work in the rapidly growing digital media and entertainment industries (DMEI).Tanner Mirrlees presents a comprehensive guide to understanding the key contexts, theories, methods, debates, and struggles surrounding work in the DMEI. Packed with current examples and accessible research findings, the book highlights the changing conditions and experiences of work in the DMEI. It surveys the DMEI's key sectors and occupations and considers the complex intersections between labor and social power relations of class, gender, and race, as well as tensions between creativity and commerce, freedom and control, meritocracy and hierarchy, and precarity and equity, diversity, and inclusivity. Chapters also explore how work in the DMEI is being reshaped by capitalism and corporations, government and policies, management, globalization, platforms,

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Book SynopsisJournalism Studies: The Basics provides an introductory overview of the emerging field of Journalism Studies, discussing key issues and contemporary debates. Drawing on Conboyâs extensive experience in the field, the changing nature of journalism and its future directions are addressed, through chapters covering: the history and development of Journalism Studies how journalists are created through training and education changing research methods and processes in journalism the impact of the âend productâ in wider society global perspectives on journalism technology and the future of the discipline. Situated within a fast growing and dynamic field of study, this engaging introduction will be valuable reading for students of journalism, media and communication, along with those seeking to develop a broader understanding of contemporary journalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Studies of journalism: the beginnings 2. Education and Training: Between a Hack and a Hard Place 3. Journalism Studies and Research Approaches 4. Debates on the processes of journalism 5. Products 6. Journalism Across Borders: Imperial, International, Global 7. Journalism Studies: Engagements with Technology and Industrial Change Index

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Book SynopsisTaking a broad approach, Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care relates issues of early childhood to the sociology of childhood, philosophy, ethics, political science and other fields and to an analysis of the world we live in today. It places these issues in a global context and draws on work from Canada, Sweden and Italy, including the world famous nurseries in Reggio Emilia.Working with postmodern ideas, this book questions the search to define and measure quality in the early childhood field and its tendency to reduce philosophical issues of value to purely technical and managerial issues of expert knowledge and measurement.With a brand new Preface to this classic text, the authors argue that there are other ways than the ''discourse of quality'' for understanding and evaluating early childhood pedagogical work and relate these to alternative ways of understanding early childhood itself and the purposes of early childhood institutions.Trade Review'The authors of this book offer a wonderful provocation for early childhood professionals. Reading it, I found myself encountering new and irresistible ideas—ones that led me to my own playful tangents. The places the authors describe that are ‘beyond quality’ open exciting and challenging possibilities for the field of ECE.' (Elizabeth Jones, Faculty Emerita, Human Development, Pacific Oaks College, California). 'Beyond Quality in Early Childhood Education and Care is a book for reflection, dialogue, and exchange on the ideological, contextual, cultural and existential diversity of childhoods across the globe. It questions modernist Minority (Western) World perspectives and the approach to early childhood education and care to which they give rise.' (Bame Nsamenang, Head, University Cooperation Division, University of Bamenda, Cameroon; and Director, Human Development Resource Centre).'This is a book that is strongly innovative and uncomfortable for those who would like to see the ideas of quality and assessment consolidated in our society and in contemporary western culture. It is a ‘good book’. Good because it is the product of dialogue and because it offers itself not only for consent, but also for dissent and negotiation by its non-dogmatic tone. Readers will feel welcomed, listened to and respected in their opinions, even when those opinions are in opposition to the authors.’ (Carlina Rinaldi, President, Reggio Children – Centre Loris Malaguzzi Foundation, Italy)Table of ContentsChapter 1: What this Book is About Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives: Modernity and Postmodernity, Power and Ethics Chapter 3: Constructing Early Childhood: What Do We Think It Is? Chapter 4: Constructing the Early Childhood Institution: What Do We Think They Are For? Chapter 5: Beyond the Discourse of Quality to the Discourse of Meaning Making Chapter 6: The Stockholm Project: Constructing a Pedagogy that Speaks in the Voice of the Child, the Pedagogue and the Parent Chapter 7: Pedagogical Documentation: A Practice for Reflection and Democracy Chapter 8: Minority Directions in the Majority World: Threats and Possibilities

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Book SynopsisIn our 'wireless' world it is easy to take the importance of the undersea cable systems for granted, but the stakes of their successful operation are huge, as they are responsible for carrying almost all transoceanic Internet traffic. In The Undersea Network Nicole Starosielski follows these cables from the ocean depths to their landing zones on the sandy beaches of the South Pacific, bringing them to the surface of media scholarship and making visible the materiality of the wired network. In doing so, she charts the cable network''s cultural, historical, geographic and environmental dimensions. Starosielski argues that the environments the cables occupy are historical and political realms, where the network and the connections it enables are made possible by the deliberate negotiation and manipulation of technology, culture, politics and geography. Accompanying the book is an interactive digital mapping project, where readers can trace Trade Review“Starosielski offers a crucial intervention into theoretical conceptualizations of communications infrastructure. . . . This rich text also has profound implications for how citizens in an always-networked society and economy understand our lived realities. The Undersea Network makes us reconsider the ‘wirelessness’ of our world by admonishing us consider it in terms of its peculiar and ongoing connectedness to geographies, cultures, and politics.” -- Sara Rodrigues * PopMatters *“[A] fascinating book that is part history, part travelogue and part socio-economic memoir. . . . Starosielski’s account makes for fascinating reading, drawing together the varied threads of history, technical complexity, economic power and political will that have shaped the world’s cable networks. Despite the scale of the infrastructure under discussion, the narrative remains intensely personal, and one to be enjoyed." -- John Gilbey * Times Higher Education *“The Undersea Network is a fascinating interdisciplinary look at the infrastructure that lets us communicate instantly across oceans…. [T]his book is a good read for anyone broadly interested in geography or communications.” -- Eva Amsen * Hakai Magazine *“A fascinating cultural assessment of global undersea cable networks that carry most of the world's trans-ocean Internet traffic. … Great stuff!” -- Christopher Sterling * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *"Overall, the book brilliantly brings together the global metanarrative of mass communication with the local, material, and relatively immobile specificities of this undersea network.... Starosielski is extremely successful in rewiring our wireless imaginaries of a networked world. The depth and breadth of the fieldwork conducted is noteworthy as is the production of the book itself, which contains a plethora of images, graphics, and maps." -- Rachael Squire * Transfers *"The multistranded analysis developed in the book provides a rewarding account that blends cultural history with investigative ethnography and along the way takes us to remote sites in Hawaii, Tahiti and Guam. Most importantly, Starosielski brings the infrastructure of undersea cable systems back into visibility, showing us in vivid ways what makes global communications possible." * European Journal of Communication *"The Undersea Network succeeds in introducing an environmental consciousness into one’s imagination of digital networks and the ecological, political, financial, place-based contingencies that support, interfere with and maintain our global telecommunications system. It makes cables salient. ... The Undersea Network is required reading for students of media and network archaeology, communication educators, political and environmental scientists, the history of technology discipline, and readers within the cable industries and government." -- Emily Goodmann * International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics *"If you have ever wondered why infrastructure has suddenly become a buzzword in cultural anthropology and science and technology studies, then follow the signal. That is precisely what The Undersea Network does, brilliantly redeeming the promise of multi-sited fieldwork methods to highlight the connections and disconnection–historical and present-day–among far-flung people and places.... For anyone with an interest in Pacific studies, this book has plenty to ponder." -- Robert J. Foster * Journal of Pacific History *"[A]n enthralling read for anybody with an interest in telecoms infrastructure and the way that it is presented in the media." -- Mike Conradi * Telecommunications Policy *"This is a fascinating and deeply geographical piece of media scholarship.Starosielski’s book is remarkably successful in demonstrating that the unstable materiality of the infrastructures it describes matters in all kinds of sometimes contradictory ways to those who construct these infrastructures, to those they connect, and to those who remain at a distance from their connective capacities." -- Derek P. McCormack * Cultural Geographies *Table of ContentsPreface. Edges ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Against Flow 1 1. Circuitous Routes. From Topology to Topography 26 2. Short-Circuiting Discursive Infrastructure: From Connection to Transmission 64 3. Gateway: From Cable Colony to Network Operations Center 94 4. Pressure Point: Turbulent Ecologies of the Cable Landing 138 5. A Network of Islands: Interconnecting the Pacific 170 6. Cabled Depths: The Aquatic Afterlives of Signal Traffic 198 Conclusion. Surfacing 225 Notes 235 Bibliography 263 Index 281

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Book SynopsisThis cutting-edge textbook examines contemporary media business models in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital transformation. AI has dramatically impacted media production and distribution, from recommendation engines to synthetic humans, from video-to-text tools to natural language models. AI is really the change agent of the media industry, answered a natural language generation model when AI was asked' about the subject of this book. It will open incredible opportunities. This book seeks to explore them.The media is examined through four sections. Principles' maps business models and the key tools of AI. Platforms' covers distribution channels in Games, Streamers, Social Networks, Broadcast and Digital Publishing. Producers' covers the engines of content-making, including Scripted, Entertainment, Factual, Content Marketing, Creators and Music. Finally, Pioneers' covers emerging sectors of Podcasting, Esports, the Metaverse and other AI-driven develTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. About the Author. Section A: Principles – 1. Introduction, 2. Media Management and Artificial Intelligence, 3. Media Business Models, 4. Overview of AI; Section B: Platforms – 5. Games, 6. Social Networks, 7. Streamers, 8. Broadcasters, 9. Digital Publishers; Section C: Producers – 10. Scripted, 11. Entertainment, 12. Factual, 13. Marketing Content, 14. Creators, 15. Music; Section D: Pioneers - 16. Podcasters, 17. Esports, 18. The Metaverse, 19. Future of the Media Business. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the lifecycle of media in the context of the media ecology, presenting a general theoretical framework and a series of methodological procedures to support the construction of an eco-evolutionary approach to media change. Focusing on a series of processes - emergence, competition, dominance, hybridization, adaptation, extinction - this book goes beyond a chronological approach to propose a reticulated and multi-layered conception of media evolution. If media evolution is a network, what are the relationships between media species like? What happens when a new media emerges into the media ecology? How do new media influence the old ones? Can media become extinct? How do media adapt when the social and economic context changes? How can media evolution be analysed? What kinds of quantitative and qualitative techniques can be applied in media evolution research?By presenting an innovative research approach and theoretical framework to media studies, thiTable of ContentsPart I. The rise of an evolutionary approach to media change 1. On the origin of theories 2. Media Evolution: A new theoretical framework Part II. A brief dictionary of Media Evolution 3. Media Life Cycle 4. Emergence 5. Dominance 6. Adaptation 7. Survival / Extinction 8. Niches 9. Intermediality 10. Coevolution Part III. A methodological kit for Media Evolution 11. Media Evolution: quantitative methods 12. Media Evolution: qualitative methods 13. Conclusions. Towards a new discipline

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Book SynopsisTaking a DEI-first approach, this book teaches students to become culturally proficient communicators by approaching diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) with intentionality in every aspect of strategic communications.Those who work in strategic communications play a powerful role in shaping public perceptions and thus have a crucial responsibility to understand and practice the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in their work. This book introduces students to DEI theories and concepts and guides them through applying these concepts to communications research, planning, and execution. Chapters in the book align with the courses and competencies most often taught in advertising and public relations programs. It also includes chapters on Inclusive Leadership and Working on Diverse Teams, as students will need these competencies when working on group class projects and in preparing for internships. The concluding chapter on Communicating for Social Change allows st

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This edition discusses the changes introduced by the establishment of printing shops and how printing affected major cultural movements: the Renaissance, the Reformation and the rise of modern science. It also demonstrates that the cumulative processes created by printing are likely to persist despite the development of new technologies.

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Book SynopsisGain a comprehensive understanding of the business of entertainment and learn to successfully engage in all aspects of global production with the revised and updated 4th edition of The Producer's Business Handbook. Learn how to cultivate relationships with key industry players including domestic and foreign studios, agencies, attorneys, talent, completion guarantors, banks, and private investors. This edition has been updated to include the latest opportunities presented by changing technology and their impact on the producerâs ability to brand, monetize, finance and globally release content. Also included is new information on audience, earning, distribution and funding opportunities created by the explosive growth of VR, AR, 360 and gaming, as well as the rapid conversion to OTT. Additional features include: Completely updated production financing worksheets â an essential tool for producers; Expanded information for loTrade Review"As a die-hard independent producer of over 700 TV shows and 15 movies, I wish this book had been available at the start of my career! If so, I would have avoided a decade or so of discovery from the school of hard knocks. Whether you are producing for the big screen or the smaller ones, I recommend you read, study and use this latest edition of The Producer's Business Handbook as part of readying your projects for the myriad of possible revenue streams that will make all your hard work much more rewarding. John Lee and Anne Marie Gillen's book is a brightly-illuminated path through the otherwise very murky waters of finance and distribution." —Steve Ecclesine, Independent Producer of 15 Motion Pictures and over 700 TV Episodes "This is the single best work on financing independent films. The landscape of the film business is changing rapidly, and this is one of the only books addressing two of the most difficult aspects: financing and distribution. There is more to financing a film than developing a business plan. This book shows practical, in-depth information, efficiently written and presented." —Don Smith, Associate Chair & Associate Professor, Film & Video Department, Columbia College "This is a timely book, detailing a proven method for success and providing relevant data for both investors and filmmakers." —Jillian Alexander, Managing Director, Conduit Consulting LLC.; Former VP of Corporate Development, Sony Pictures Entertainment; Member of Sony US Ventures Team Table of ContentsIntroduction The Industry U.S. Theatrical Distributors International Territories DIY Distribution Ancillary Windows, Rights, & Products Production Financing Production Incentives Guarantors Attorneys Talent Agents & Managers Company Structure Development Funding The Team Operations Producers Business Resources Glossary

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Book SynopsisFood Information, Communication and Education analyses the role of different media in producing and transforming knowledge about food. Eating knowledge', or knowledge about food and food practice, is a central theme of cooking classes, the daily press, school textbooks, social media, popular magazines and other media. In addition, a wide variety of actors have taken on the responsibility of informing and educating the public about food, including food producers, advertising agencies, celebrity chefs, teachers, food bloggers and government institutions. Featuring a range of European case studies, this interdisciplinary collection advances our understanding of the processes of mediatization, circulation and reception of knowledge relating to food within specific social environments. Topics covered include: popularized knowledge about food carried over from past to present; the construction of trustworthy knowledge in today's food risk society; critical assessment of nutrition eduTrade ReviewThis book investigates how knowledge about food is developed, disseminated and digested in diverse Western European contexts. Chapters critically examine beliefs about child and elderly nutrition, diabetes, gluten-sensitivity, vitamins and other dietary issues where medical experts, media brokers, scientists and educators promote concepts not only of good eating, but also of health and compliant citizenship. The book provides provocative insights into how food knowledge undergirds political policies, educational practices and nutrition advice. * Carole Counihan, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, Millersville University, USA and Editor-in-Chief of Food and Foodways *Scholars and activists have long emphasized the importance of “knowing where food comes from” while paying too little attention to the question of where knowledge about food comes from. Stepping into the gap is this ambitious collection of internationally diverse, interdisciplinary essays exploring what people know about eating, what they do with that knowledge and the broader politics of knowledge, authority and legitimacy that shape both. * Charlotte Biltekoff, Associate Professor of American Studies & Food Science and Technology, University of California, Davis, USA *Susan Kovacs and Simona De lulio have composed a flavorful book, pleasant to read, with a rich diversity of contexts, objects and approaches. It may therefore be of interest to researchers from any area who are sympathetic to human and social sciences. -- Cristina Romanelli, Universidad de Lille * Revista CENTRA de Ciencias Sociales *This collection is for anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and education specialists interested in the ways our knowledge of food is shaped by others, and how we in turn shape that knowledge ... This collection begins to tease out these complexities, making it a valuable addition to food studies. -- Lexi Earl, University of Oxford * Gastronomica *Table of ContentsList of Figures Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction, Simona De Iulio (University of Lille, France) and Susan Kovacs, (Enssib Library and Information Science School, Villeurbanne, France) Part I: Construction and Circulation of 'Eating Knowledge': Mediators and mediations 1. Athena, Jesus Christ and the Traffic light. History and Anthropology of Olive Oil, Elisabetta Moro, (University of Naples, Italy) 2. Strategies for disseminating dietetics: The health regimen as medical book genre in seventeenth-century France, Justine Le Floc'h, (Sorbonne University, France) 3. Projecting savoir-faire in the French classroom: Nutrition filmstrips, 1930–70, Didier Nourrisson, (University of Lyon, France) 4. Changing Public Health Recommendations for Older People: from Curbing Excess to Battling Undernutrition, Laura Guérin, (Max Weber Centre, France) 5. Food in the Workplace, where Productivity Meets Well-Being: a Contemporary Question?, Thomas Heller and Elodie Sevin, (University of Lille, France) 6. Knowledge, Information and Mediations in Tension: a Decade of Food Scandals and Controversies, François Allard-Huver, (University of Lorraine, France) Part II: Uses and Appropriations of ‘Eating Knowledge’ in Everyday Practices 7. From Disciplining Bodies to Patient Education: Changing Diabetics' Eating Habits in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vincent Schlegel, (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris, France) 8. The Dietary Consultation Session as a Place for Mediating Food Knowledge, Viviane Clavier, (University of Grenoble-Alpes, France) 9. Information Practices and Knowledge Appropriation Among Gluten-Sensitive Individuals, Virginie Wolff, (University of Strasbourg, France) 10. Vitamins in Food Advertising and School Resources, 1950 to the Present: Between Prevention and Health-Capital Approaches, Simona De Iulio (University of Lille, France), Laurence Depezay (University of Lille, France), Susan Kovacs, (Enssib Library and Information Science School, Villeurbanne, France), Denise Orange Ravachol, (University of Lille, France), and Christian Orange, (Free University of Brussels (ULB) Belgium) 11. The Circulation of Knowledge about Food in Schools, Marie Berthoud, (University of Lille, France) 12. Developing a Reasoned Approach to Food Education Through Science Teaching, Denise Orange Ravachol, (University of Lille, France) and Christian Orange, (Free University of Brussels (ULB) Belgium) 13. When 'Healthy' Eating becomes a Political Issue: Parents’ Association School Canteens in Andalusia, Spain, Philippe Cardon, (University of Lille, France) and María Dolores Martín-Lagos López, (University of Granada, Grenada) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisResearch Skills for Journalists is a comprehensive, engaging and highly practical guide to developing the varied skillset needed for producing well researched, quality journalism across a range of platforms.Illustrated with original interviews and case studies, the book guides readers through a clear understanding of sources of news, as well as illustrating the skills needed to undertake successful digital and non-digital research and to conduct interviews for a variety of media. It examines the skills needed for basic data journalism and presents an in-depth exploration of the different research skills specific to producing print and online text, as well as those for broadcast and multimedia journalism.Key research skills explored in the book include: Developing digital research skills, including researching through search engines, messages boards, discussion groups and web forums, social media, apps, and using user generated content WorTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Sources of News 3. Digital Research 4. Data Journalism 5. Non-Digital Research 6. People 7. Interviews 8. Research for Print and Text 9. Research for Broadcast and Multimedia 10. Working Overseas 11. The Future

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Book SynopsisBringing together leading scholars, this international collection examines different dimensions of ageing and ageism in a range of media and how older adults use and interact with the media.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Ageing in/and the Media - Virpi Ylänne Part I: Framing and Constructing Ageing in Media Reporting 2 ‘Apocalyptic Demography’ Versus the ‘Reckless Generation’: Framing the Third and Fourth Ages in the Media - Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard 3 Older Adults and the Pandemic in UK News Media - Virpi Ylänne 4 Present Time Witches: Media and the Intersecting Discourses of Age, Gender, and Mental Health in Ghana - Monika Wilińska and Doris Boateng 5 Portrayals of Older People With Dementia in Taiwanese Newspapers - Chin-Hui Chen and Yan-Hua Huang 6 Older LGBTQ+ Persons in Canadian Newspapers - Laura Hurd and Raveena Mahal Part II: Imagined Ageing in Promotional and Fictional Contexts 7 Ageism and the Promotion of Agelessness in Brazilian Advertising - Gisela Castro 8 Visual Ageism on Public Organisations’ Websites - Eugène Loos, Loredana Ivan, Maria Sourbati, Wenqian Xu, Christa Lykke Christensen and Virpi Ylänne 9 Imag(in)ing Ageing Futures in Comics and Graphic Novels - Nicole Dalmer and Lucia Cedeira Serantes Part III: Older Adults’ Interaction With the Media and Media Technologies 10 Advertising Old Men: Swedish Old Men Reflect on ‘Seeing Themselves’ - Karin Lövgren, Linn Sandberg and Jeff Hearn 11 Older Women and Women’s Magazines: Audience, Agency, and Life Course - Dana Sawchuk 12 The Double Logic of Care: Age, Gender, and Media Technologies in Austria - Barbara Ratzenböck 13 Conclusion - Virpi Ylänne

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Book SynopsisThis collaborative book coordinated by the European Journalism Centre and the Open Knowledge Foundation aims to answer questions like: Where can I find data? How can I request data? What tools can I use? How can I find stories in data? How can I make data journalism sustainable?

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Book SynopsisWinner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the International Communication AssociationHonorable Mention, 2020 Nancy Baym Book Award, given by the Association of Internet ResearchersHow the transformation of social media platforms and user-experience have redefined the entertainment industryIn a little over a decade, competing social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, have given rise to a new creative industry: social media entertainment. Operating at the intersection of the entertainment and interactivity, communication and content industries, social media entertainment creators have harnessed these platforms to generate new kinds of content separate from the century-long model of intellectual property control in the traditional entertainment industry. Social media entertainment has expanded rapidly and the traditional entertainment industry has been forced to cede Trade ReviewA seminal book that captures and contextualizes the rapid emergence of an evolutionary media form by connecting the past with the present, while successfully arguing for the legitimacy of Social Media Entertainment as a foundation of our future. -- Jordan Levin, Former CEO of Awesomeness and The WB television networkIf you really want to understand the convergence between Silicon Valley and Hollywood, read this book. Stuart Cunningham and David Craig have written a superb book on the global transition towards online screen culture. -- José van Dijck, author of The Culture of Connectivity and The Platform SocietyIts easy to say & everythings changed. But its monumental to actually develop a map of the changing economic and cultural dynamics of entertainment production in the age of social media. Cunningham and Craigs masterful book will be foundational for scholars and students for years to come. -- Tarleton Gillespie, author of Custodians of the InternetProvides a remarkably broad, detailed, and necessary guide to these new organizations, economies, and personalities that rival the mass media. This book will guide the future of Media Studies. -- Nancy Baym, author of Playing to the CrowdThis is a bold, important book full of thoughtfully researched arguments about how to move the field of media studies forward to address the forms and delivery systems of today. -- Ellen Seiter, author of The Creative Artist's Legal GuideStuart Cunningham and David Craig have developed a deeply informed, theoretically contextualized set of arguments that come to this: SME is shaking up the media landscape. * International Journal of Communication *Cunningham and Craig examine how social media has changed Hollywood and Silicon Valley ... a good read for students who want to go into broad-casting or online media. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *[This] is a book that digs into what our privacy means in the digital era. The text looks at what is considered privacy by means of the internet, the government, and ourselves as users [...] This book is a good reader for anyone who is a user of one or multiple accounts on the internet whether it is business or personal. * CBQ *

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Book SynopsisWhat identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist itAlgorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not only form knowledge and social relationships in the digital and physical world, but also determine who we are and who we can be, both on and offline. Algorithms create and recreate us, using our data to assign and reassign our gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship status. They can recognize us as celebrities or mark us as terrorists. In this era of ubiquitous surveillance, contemporary data collection entails more than gathering information about us. Entities like Google, Facebook, and the NSA also decide what that information means, constructing our worlds and the identities wTrade Review"We Are Datais a gem!... This finely crafted book should help us to take a giant collective leap forward." * International Journal of Communication *"We Are Dataspells out the implications of being made of data in the digital age: our new & algorithmic identity. John Cheney-Lippold shows how algorithmic logics that undergird the architecture, regulation, monetization, and uses of the Internet have changed the nature of human experience and identity. Through witty and accessible examples, he eloquently lays out the social and political consequences of transcoding lived identity into measurable types in our new world. Clearly written, carefully researched, timely and intelligent,We Are Datais a compelling and much-needed book." -- Alexandra Juhasz,Chair, Film Department, Brooklyn College"John Cheney-Lippolds deft examination of & measurable typesthe categories by which we are known and assessed, based on our datasheds light on contemporary societys encounter with information systems to scrutiny, and with those eager to identify us for their own ends.We Are Data goes beyond naming possible harms. It helps us think differently about what it means to be & seen by marketers, algorithms, or the NSA as members of shifting categoriesidentifications that structure us and our encounter with the world, but that we have little power to shape." -- Tarleton Gillespie,author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture"This book sparkles with brilliant insights. It offers us tools and a vocabulary through which we can think about the layers of identities that our data-conjured ghosts inhabit. I dont think I fully grasped the complexity of what these clouds of commercial data did with us and to us until I read We Are Data." -- Siva Vaidhyanathan,author of The Googlization of Everything—and Why We Should Worry"We Are Data is an inspiring and thought-provoking book to read, especially for those interested in the social, political, and cultural aspects of data. It draws on a wide range of well-known literature in the field of Internet and algorithm studies and further engages deeply with the philosophical aspects of the presented themes." * Mobile Media and Communication *"If knowledge is indeed the means by which we can begin to challenge the digital status quo, then Cheney-Lippold has done much to forearm us by so capably elucidating the problem." * LSE Review of Books *"The text moves beyond overdone topics of online privacy to look at how the lack of privacy of our data impacts identities It is the most appropriate for social science researchers and students." * Choice *"We Are Data shows us just how powerful data can be and how that data affects who we are and who we can be. Cheney-Lippold addresses how data is (and always has been) a part of our lives through the discussionof categorization, control, subjectivity, and privacy." * Technical Communication *"A heady and rewarding explanation of our lives in the data age. [Cheney-Lippold's] discussion of privacy...will fascinate many. Essential reading for anyone who cares about the internet's extraordinary impact on each of us and on our society." * Starred Kirkus Reviews *

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Book SynopsisExplores new perspectives on social media entertainmentThere is a new class of cultural producersYouTube vloggers, Twitch gameplayers, Instagram influencers, TikTokers, Chinese wanghong, and otherswho are part of a rapidly emerging and highly disruptive industry of monetized user-generated content. As this new wave of native social media entrepreneurs emerge, so do new formations of culture and the ways they are studied. In this volume, contributors draw on scholarship in media and communication studies, science and technology studies, and social media, Internet, and platform studies, in order to define this new field of study and the emergence of creator culture. Creator Culture introduces readers to new paradigms of social media entertainment from critical perspectives, demonstrating both relations to and differentiations from the well-established media forms and institutions traditionally within the scope of media studies. This volume does not seek to impose a uniform perspectivTrade ReviewThis lively collection puts forth a persuasive case for ‘creator culture’ as a major new force in media industries worldwide. Drawing from intricate analyses and ethnographies of creator practices across the globe, the scholars in this volume show how today’s social media entrepreneurs exist at the uneasy intersection of platforms, legacy media, and advertising. From unboxing videos to fashion influencers, these essays explore the cultural logics of online creators and their larger sociocultural contexts. An essential collection for scholars of branding, celebrity, and social media, and anyone interested in the future of entertainment. * Alice E. Marwick, author of Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age *What could once be referred to confidently as ‘the media’ has fragmented into a diverse array of creators, platforms, audiences, communities, regulatory responsibilities, and business models. With Creator Culture, Cunningham and Craig have captured the zeitgeist of social media entertainment, bringing together an array of leading international researchers to critically analyze this emergent field. * Terry Flew, University of Sydney *

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Book SynopsisRisk, anxiety and moral panic are endemic to contemporary societies and media forms. How do these phenomena manifest in a place like South Africa, which features heightened insecurity, deep inequality and accelerated social change? What happens when cultures of fear intersect with pervasive systems of gender, race and class?Worrier state investigates four case studies in which fear and anxiety appear in radically different ways: the far right myth of ‘white genocide’; so-called ‘Satanist’ murders of young women; an urban legend about township crime; and social theories about safety and goodness in the suburbs. Falkof foregrounds the significance of emotion as a socio-political force, emphasising South Africa’s imbrication within globalised conditions of anxiety and thus its fundamental and often-ignored hypermodernity. The book offers a bold and creative perspective on the social roles of fear and emotion in South Africa and thus on everyday life in this complex place.Trade ReviewShortlisted for MeCCSA Monograph of the Year 2023Judges' comments:'This is a fascinating study of the perceived risks and associated concepts such as moral panic within South Africa and their media representations and is vigorous and timely as it speaks to the ‘risk’ society which has hitherto focused on the Global North. Fear and anxiety are explored through a discussion of four different mediatized ‘stories’ and through the author’s own clearly acknowledged white woman’s lens, all of which build a picture of a still highly racialised and unequal South Africa, where fear is differently focused and experienced depending on your position in the racial hierarchy as well as your class position. The case studies not only narrate different stories and different subjectivities but also grapple with the less familiar themes of magic and the occult. The book thus provides some original thinking through of how these different aspects of fear, anxiety and emotion play out in the modern South African imaginary. The work is scholarly and draws on both primary and secondary sources in the presentation of the different case studies.' ‘This stunning book resonates with climates of fear far beyond South Africa in how it magnifies the tensions and intimacies between embodied experience and the lingering history and threat of violence. This is a powerful and difficult book to write, and to write this well.’Samantha Pinto, author of Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights‘Original and refreshing, Falkof’s book is a must read for those of us interested in understanding contemporary formations of race and power in the global South and the role of the media in framing these debates. This study is critically needed in this moment of increasing worldwide white nationalism.’ Xavier Livermon, author of Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Post-Apartheid South Africa'As Falkof shows in this compelling and important book, cultures of fear and anxiety emerge from deep socio-economic inequalities that continue to characterize South Africa today, on intersecting bases of race, class, gender and citizenship.' Belinda Dodson, Africa, Volume 93, Issue 2 (May 2023)'Nicky Falkof has critically examined issues of race, gender, and identity vis-a-vis the affectual reactions of the media and individuals to the above-mentioned cases. These essays on white genocide, Satanist murders, township urban legends of ‘plasma gangs’, and suburban community groups are a brilliant representation of how the fear and feelings of anxiety and moral panic of the privileged cannot be equated to that of the powerless as it leads to severely reductionist and often false narratives by institutions such as the mass media.'Sudatta Ghosh, South Asian University (SAU), Doing Sociology -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Risk, anxiety and moral panic2 ‘White genocide’ and the marketing of minority victims3 Christian nightmares4 Drugs, crime and consumption in Alexandra5 Safe selves versus good selves in the suburbsConclusion: Risky businessBibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen Hammer Films broke box office records in 1957 with `The Curse of Frankenstein’, the company not only resurrected the gothic horror film, but also created a particularly British-flavoured form of horror that swept the world. `The British Horror Film from the Silent to the Multiplex’ is your guide to the films, actors, and filmmakers who have thrilled and terrified generations of movie fans. In just one book, you will find the literary and cinematic roots of the genre to the British films made by film legends such as Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, Hammer’s accomplishments starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and the post-Hammer horrors such as Peter Walker’s `Frightmare’ and huge British-made successes such as `Alien’ and the zombie craze of the twenty-first century. Featuring the history, the films, the stars, the directors, and the studios in one fascinating, fun, and fact-filled volume, whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned gore-hound, this volume covers everything you ever wanted to know about the British horror movie, but were too bone-chillingly afraid to ask.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive history of rock and pop on British television, from the early days of Oh Boy and Ready Steady Go!, through the institution that was Top Of The Pops, global events like Live Aid right up to date with Jools Holland's Later.

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Book SynopsisHave you ever turned on the TV and seen a news crew? How do they do what they do?

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