Media studies Books
Cambridge University Press Angry and Wrong
Book SynopsisUse of partisan media is often associated with political misperceptions but little research has investigated whether partisan media can change beliefs and, if so, the mechanism through which that process occurs. This Element argues that political anger provides one key theoretical link between partisan media use and political misperceptions. Using three-wave panel survey data collected in the United States during the 2020 election, I show that people who use more partisan media are more angry and misinformed than less frequent or non-users. More importantly, consuming partisan media-particularly conservative media-can make people angrier about politics over time and this anger subsequently reduces the accuracy of political beliefs. While audiences for partisan media remain small, the findings indicate that partisan media play an important role in shaping political emotions and beliefs and offer one promising explanation for why their audiences are more likely to hold more inaccurate beliefs about politics.
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Cambridge University Press Media and Society After Technological Disruption
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Cambridge University Press A Web of Our Own Making
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Cambridge University Press The Making Sense of Politics Media and Law
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Cambridge University Press The Making Sense of Politics Media and Law
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Cambridge University Press Political Technology
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Cambridge University Press Governing Digital China
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Cambridge University Press Disinformation Misinformation and Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Real News about the News
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Cambridge University Press Black Networks Matter
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Cambridge University Press The Cyber Predators
Book SynopsisExplore the multifaceted realm of cybercrime and abuse, delving into methods, sexual violence, data theft, fraud, victim experiences, and information security. This book enhances awareness by emphasizing the role of perpetrator personalities, their motives, and patterns. Tailored for postgraduates, it serves as a valuable reading resource.
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Cambridge University Press The Cyber Predators
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Cambridge University Press Mobile Banking and Access to Public Services in Bangladesh
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Cambridge University Press Mobile Banking and Access to Public Services in Bangladesh
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Cambridge University Press Worse Than Ignorance
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Cambridge University Press Black Networks Matter
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Cambridge University Press Early Childhood and Digital Media
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Cambridge University Press Climate Activism Digital Technologies and Organizational Change
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Cambridge University Press Climate Activism Digital Technologies and Organizational Change
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Cambridge University Press Social Media Democracy Mirage
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Cambridge University Press The Future of Press Freedom
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Cambridge University Press Angry and Wrong
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Cambridge University Press Automatic Image Tagging for Corpus Linguistics
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Cambridge University Press Parties and New Technologies in Latin America
Book SynopsisThis Element analyzes the incorporation of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) by different parties in Latin America to organize volunteers and mobilize supporters during elections. It assesses ICT-related changes in how parties recruit prospective candidates, collect information about citizens'' preferences, and mobilize for elections and how these changes have reduced the power of the rank and file within party organizations. Party leaders have an incentive to incorporate new ICTs to increase electoral efficacy and reduce the role of rank-and-file members in performing essential party functions. However, the result of the incorporation of technology depends on leaders'' capacity to control the process within the party. Based on case studies of ICT incorporation by various Latin American parties and electoral campaigns, the authors posit that the incorporation of technology will consolidate a power dynamic that predates the adoption of ICTs to fulfill organizational functions.
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Cambridge University Press Parties and New Technologies in Latin America
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Cambridge University Press Amplifying Extremism
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Cambridge University Press The Power of the Crowd
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Cambridge University Press Addressing Misinformation and Disinformation
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Cambridge University Press The Logic of Connective Action
Book SynopsisGrowing numbers of citizens find pathways to engagement through simple, everyday discourses shared over social media networks. The Logic of Connective Action offers a framework and a rich set of case studies to explain these increasingly common forms of public engagement with contemporary issues, and shows how they complement more conventional models of collective action in contentious politics.Trade Review'W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg's The Logic of Connective Action is a welcome introduction to the topic and should, I hope, convince more sociologists that our theories of movements should consider social media as a distinctive resource, one that transforms the way people engage in activism rather than simply augmenting traditional communications … This book makes a strong case that social media and other forms of online activism should grab the attention of social movement scholars.' Brayden G. King, American Journal of Sociology'Playing off Olson's title, Bennett and Segerberg describe the emerging development of 'connective' action, in which the lower costs of social media and the ability to claim credit for one's substantive contribution to policy debates have fueled new modes for personal political involvement. Through the development of a sophisticated matrix of mobilization types and techniques and a set of widely divergent case studies of social movement in a variety of political settings, they show the potential for technology to motivate, inform, and engage previously uninvolved individuals in the policy process … Summing up: recommended.' S. E. Frantzich, Choice'Scholars interested in social movements or activism, political organizing, political communication, civic engagement, new information and communications technologies, and media studies would find the book particularly useful. This path-breaking work, along with others (Bimber, Flanagin, and Stohl, 2012, and Castells, 2012), will change how we think about organization and contentious action for years to come.' Hao Cao, International Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The logic of connective action; 2. Personalized communication in protest networks; 3. Digital media and the organization of connective action; 4. How organizationally enabled networks engage publics; 5. Networks, power, and political outcomes; 6. Conclusion: when logics collide.
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Cambridge University Press Representational Style in Congress
Book SynopsisThis book examines the consequences of legislators' strategic communication for representation, demonstrating how legislators present their work to cultivate constituent support. Using new statistical techniques to analyze massive data sets, Justin Grimmer makes the compelling case that to understand political representation, we must understand what legislators say to constituents.Trade Review"Representational Style in Congress targets a question long of interest to scholars of legislative politics: how and why do legislators engage in strategic communication with their constituents about their work on Capitol Hill? Grimmer uses new data and new methods to develop measures of senators’ discourse and then demonstrates convincingly how these presentational styles matter for dyadic and collective representation. This book is a compelling and important contribution to the study of congressional behavior and political communication." Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignTable of Contents1. Representation inside and outside Congress; 2. Representation and evaluation on the senator's terms; 3. Measuring presentational styles with Senate press releases; 4. Measuring presentational styles in thousands of press releases; 5. Types of presentational styles in the US Senate; 6. The electoral connection's effect on senators' presentational styles; 7. Correspondence between senators' work in Washington and presentational styles; 8. Why presentational styles matter for dyadic representation; 9. Why presentational styles matter for collective representation; 10. Presentational styles and representation.
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Cambridge University Press Old Books New Technologies The Representation Conservation And Transformation Of Books Since 1700
Book SynopsisAs we rely increasingly on digital resources, and libraries discard large parts of their older collections, what is our responsibility to preserve 'old books' for the future? David McKitterick's lively and wide-ranging study explores how old books have been represented and interpreted from the eighteenth century to the present day. Conservation of these texts has taken many forms, from early methods of counterfeiting, imitation and rebinding to modern practices of microfilming, digitisation and photography. Using a comprehensive range of examples, McKitterick reveals these practices and their effects to address wider questions surrounding the value of printed books, both in terms of their content and their status as historical objects. Creating a link between historical approaches and the emerging technologies of the future, this book furthers our understanding of old books and their significance in a world of emerging digital technology.Trade Review'A learned, sensible and well-written piece of historical scholarship.' The Times Literary Supplement'The great value of [this] book is that it attempts to provide a larger, longer-term context for understanding what is happening today not (primarily) to new books but to retrospective collections, as more and more are digitized and made available on the web. If the meaning and status of these historical artifacts are being challenged today in new and menacing ways, it is not for the first time. The history of the transmission and evaluation of old books is itself the record of shifting approaches to these artifacts … what makes McKitterick's narrative so compelling is the wealth of detail it includes as well as the breadth of cultural objects it embraces. McKitterick alerts us at every point that what was true for books was true for sculptures, paintings, buildings, and the whole repertoire of culturally significant objects …' College and Research Libraries'This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in old books, both from the perspective of how their content as well as physical characteristics have been preserved. … Although quite detailed, Old Books, New Technologies is not a heavy academic tome and makes for an enjoyable read. It provides an interesting view of how old books were considered and treated during the 18th and 19th centuries.' Mary McIntyre, Journal of the Canadian Association for ConservationTable of Contents1. The past in pixels; 2. Restoration and invention; 3. Conservation, counterfeiting and bookbinding; 4. Representation and imitation; 5. From copying to facsimile; 6. The arrival of photography; 7. Public exhibition; 8. The Caxton exhibition of 1877; 9. A bibliographical and public revolution; 10. Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Logic of Connective Action Digital Media And The Personalization Of Contentious Politics Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
Book SynopsisThe Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany illustrate a theoretical framework for understanding how large-scale connective action is coordinated. In many of these mobilizations, communication operates as an organizational process that may replace or supplement familiar forms of collective action based on organizational resource mobilization, leadership, and collective action framing. In some cases, connective action emerges from crowds that shun leaders, as when Occupy protesters created media networks to channel resources and create loose ties among dispersed physical groups. In other cases, conventional political organizations deploy personalized communication logics to enable large-scale engagement with a variety of political causes. The Logic oTrade Review'W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg's The Logic of Connective Action is a welcome introduction to the topic and should, I hope, convince more sociologists that our theories of movements should consider social media as a distinctive resource, one that transforms the way people engage in activism rather than simply augmenting traditional communications … This book makes a strong case that social media and other forms of online activism should grab the attention of social movement scholars.' Brayden G. King, American Journal of Sociology'Playing off Olson's title, Bennett and Segerberg describe the emerging development of 'connective' action, in which the lower costs of social media and the ability to claim credit for one's substantive contribution to policy debates have fueled new modes for personal political involvement. Through the development of a sophisticated matrix of mobilization types and techniques and a set of widely divergent case studies of social movement in a variety of political settings, they show the potential for technology to motivate, inform, and engage previously uninvolved individuals in the policy process … Summing up: recommended.' S. E. Frantzich, Choice'Scholars interested in social movements or activism, political organizing, political communication, civic engagement, new information and communications technologies, and media studies would find the book particularly useful. This path-breaking work, along with others (Bimber, Flanagin, and Stohl, 2012, and Castells, 2012), will change how we think about organization and contentious action for years to come.' Hao Cao, International Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The logic of connective action; 2. Personalized communication in protest networks; 3. Digital media and the organization of connective action; 4. How organizationally enabled networks engage publics; 5. Networks, power, and political outcomes; 6. Conclusion: when logics collide.
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Cambridge University Press Reframing Visual Social Science
Book SynopsisInsights into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing visible behavior of people and material products of culture. This book provides scholars, students, artists and professionals with a systematic and analytical presentation and discussion of methods and techniques to visually study and communicate culture and society.Trade Review'A remarkably readable, yet highly scholarly exposure of approaches to research that open up the riches of contemporary and historical sources of visual culture. This book will be of great value to anyone involved at the cutting edge of carrying out visual research. They will find in it practical guidance, critical scholarship and encouragement to go further into this exciting field of study.' Catherine Burke, University of Cambridge'Reframing Visual Social Science offers a fresh, powerful and theoretically sophisticated perspective on the visual turn that's been reshaping social research for the past fifteen years. Focusing on the seam between visual evidence and visual representation, Pauwels examines a cluster of contrasting points of view that can discourage or distort visual approaches to the social sciences. Rather than pushing these contradictions aside, however, Pauwels embraces them as opportunities for systematic analysis. Through a combination of case studies and theoretical essays, he articulates that analysis as a comprehensive framework for understanding materials and research practices that are all too often treated sui generis - including photographic field work, ethnographic film, the analysis of found photographs, participatory media projects, and image-rich research reporting. The result is a path-breaking book that links existing treatments of visual social research with new possibilities and perspectives and has a great deal to offer both beginning and mature scholars.' Jon Wagner, Professor Emeritus, School of Education, University of California, DavisTable of ContentsPart I. Remodelling Visual Social Science: 1. Prologue and outline: (re)framing visual social science?; 2. An integrated framework for conducting and assessing visual social research; Part II. The Visual Researcher as Collector and Interpreter: 3. Researching 'found' or 'pre-existing' visual materials; 4. A visual and multimodal model for analyzing online environments; Part III. The Visual Researcher as Producer, Facilitator and Communicator: 5. The mimetic mode: from exploratory to systematic visual data production; 6. Visual elicitation techniques, respondent-generated image production and 'participatory' visual activism; 7. The 'visual essay' as a scholarly format: art meets (social) science?; 8. Social scientific filmmaking and multimedia production: key features and debates; Part IV. Applications/Case Studies: 9. Family photography as a social practice: from the analogue to the digital networked world; 10. A visual study of corporate culture: the workplace as metaphor; 11. Health communication in South Africa: a visual study of posters, billboards and grassroots media; Part V. Visual Research in a Wider Perspective: 12. Ethics of visual research in the offline and online world; 13. A meta-disciplinary framework for producing and assessing visual representations; 14. Advancing visual research: pending issues and future directions.
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Cambridge University Press Entertainment Industry Economics
Book SynopsisAlready among the most important sectors of the US economy, the entertainment and media industries are continuing to grow worldwide. Fully updated, the tenth edition of Entertainment Industry Economics is the definitive reference on the economics of film, music, television, advertising, broadcasting, cable, casinos, publishing, arts and culture, performing arts, toys and games, sports, and theme parks. Its synthesis of a vast amount of data provides an up-to-date guide to the economics, financing, accounting, production, marketing, and history of these sectors in the United States and countries across the globe. This edition offers new material on streaming services, the relationship between demographics and entertainment spending, electromagnetic spectrum for broadcasters, and revised FASB accounting rules for film and television. Financial analysts and investors, economists, industry executives, accountants, lawyers, regulators, and journalists, as well as students preparing to join these professionals will benefit from this invaluable source.Table of ContentsPreface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Economic perspectives; 2. Basic elements; Part II. Media-Dependent Entertainment: 3. Movie macroeconomics; 4. Making and marketing movies; 5. Financial accounting in movies and television; 6. Music; 7. Broadcasting; 8. Cable; 9. Publishing; 10. Toys and games; Part III. Live Entertainment: 11. Gaming and wagering; 12. Sports; 13. Performing arts and culture; 14. Amusement/theme parks; Part IV. Roundup: 15. Performance and policy; Appendix A. Sources of information; Appendix B. Major games of chance; Appendix C. Supplementary data; Glossary; References; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Conducting Sentiment Analysis
Book SynopsisThis Element provides a basic introduction to sentiment analysis, aimed at helping students and professionals in corpus linguistics to understand what sentiment analysis is, how it is conducted, and where it can be applied. It begins with a definition of sentiment analysis and a discussion of the domains where sentiment analysis is conducted and used the most. Then, it introduces two main methods that are commonly used in sentiment analysis known as supervised machine-learning and unsupervised learning (or lexicon-based) methods, followed by a step-by-step explanation of how to perform sentiment analysis with R. The Element then provides two detailed examples or cases of sentiment and emotion analysis, with one using an unsupervised method and the other using a supervised learning method.Table of Contents1. Sentiment analysis: Background; 2. Methods for sentiment analysis; 3. How to do sentiment analysis with R; 4. Case study 1: A diachronic analysis of sentiments and emotions in the State of the Union Addresses; 5. Case study 2: A sentiment and emotion analysis of movie reviews; 6. Conclusion: Where we are and where we are heading; References.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Terms of Service
Book SynopsisSocial networking has grown into a staple of modern society, but its continued evolution is becoming increasingly detrimental to our lives. Shifts in communication and privacy are affecting us more than we realize or understand. Terms of Service crystalizes this current moment in technology and contemplates its implications: the identity-validating pleasures and perils of online visibility; our newly adopted view of daily life through the lens of what is share-worthy; and the surveillance state operated by social media platforms—Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others—to mine our personal data for advertising revenue, an invasion of our lives that is as pervasive as government spying.Jacob Silverman calls for social media users to take back ownership of their digital selves from the Silicon Valley corporations who claim to know what's best for them. Integrating politics, sociology, national security, pop culture, and technology, he reveals the
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pandoras Box
Book SynopsisA NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SELECTION?Biskind?s saga about the rise and fall of prestige television explains, in punchy, propulsive prose, how we went from Tony Soprano to Ted Lasso.? ?New YorkerBestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, cultural critic Peter Biskind turns his eye toward the new golden age of television, sparked by the fall of play-it-safe network TV and the rise of boundary-busting cable, followed by streaming, which overturned both?based on exclusive, candid, and colorful interviews with executives, writers, showrunners, directors, and actorsWe are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television, in its various guises and formats, has seized the entertainment mantle from movies and dominates our leisure time. How and why this happened is the subject of this book.Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora?s Box asks, ?What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?? The answer: It gave us a revolution. Biskind bites off a big chunk of entertainment history, following HBO from its birth into maturity, moving on to the basic cablers like FX and AMC, and ending up with the streamers and their wars, pitting Netflix against Amazon Prime Video, Max, and the killer pluses?Disney, Apple TV, and Paramount.Since the creative and business sides of TV are thoroughly entwined, Biskind examines both, and the interplay between them. Through frank and shockingly intimate interviews with creators and executives, Pandora?s Box investigates the dynamic interplay of commerce and art through the lens the game-changing shows they aired?not only old warhorses like The Sopranos, but recent shows like The White Lotus, Succession, and Yellow- (both -stone and -jackets)?as windows into the byzantine practices of the players as they use money and guile to destroy their competitors.In the end, this book crystal-balls the future in light of the success and failures of the streamers that, after apparently clearing the board, now face life-threatening problems, some self-created, some not. With its long view and short takes?riveting snapshots of behind-the-scenes mischief?Pandora?s Box is the only book you?ll need to read to understand what?s on your small screen and how it got there.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Blood Ink
Book SynopsisNew York Times Editor''s Pick & Best True Crime of 2022“Blood & Ink is among 2022’s best works of true crime.” —Washington PostVanity Fair’s Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister and his secret mistress, a Jazz Age mega-crime that propelled tabloid news in the 20th century.On September 16, 1922, the bodies of Reverend Edward Hall and Eleanor Mills were found beneath a crabapple tree on an abandoned farm outside of New Brunswick, New Jersey. The killer had arranged the bodies in a pose conveying intimacy.The murder of Hall, a prominent clergyman whose wife, Frances Hall, was a proud heiress with illustrious ancestors and ties to the Johnson & Johnson dynasty, would have made headlines on its own. But when authorities identified Eleanor Mills as a choir singer from his church married
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Dynamics of Mass Communication Media in
Book SynopsisWell-known for its balanced approach to media industries and professions, Dynamics of Mass Communication offers a lively, thorough, and objective introduction for mass communication majors and non-majors alike. Dynamics of Mass Communication takes a comprehensive and balanced look at the changing world of mass media. Social media, âappsâ and the new media Goliaths are new and major themes of the 12th edition. Explore how the traditional mass media are dealing with shrinking audiences, evaporating advertising revenue and increased competition from the Internet. The 12th edition brings students up-to-date on the latest developments in the media world including cyber-bullying; new media business models; e-book readersâ affects on the traditional print publishing industry; online video sites such as YouTube and hulu.com.; the decoupling of advertising from media content, and much more.Table of ContentsBrief ContentsPart I The Nature and History of Mass Communication Chapter 1 Communication: Mass and Other FormsChapter 2 Perspectives on Mass CommunicationChapter 3 Historical and Cultural ContextPart II Media Chapter 4 The Internet and Social MediaChapter 5 NewspapersChapter 6 MagazinesChapter 7 BooksChapter 8 RadioChapter 9 Sound RecordingChapter 10 Motion PicturesChapter 11 Broadcast TelevisionChapter 12 Cable, Satellite and Internet TelevisionPart III Specific Media ProfessionsChapter 13 News Gathering and ReportingChapter 14 Public RelationsChapter 15 AdvertisingPart IV Regulation of the Mass MediaChapter 16 Formal Controls: Laws, Rules, Regulations.Chapter 17 Ethics and Other Informal ControlsPart V Impact of the Media Chapter 18 Social Effects of Mass CommunicationGlossary Photo Credits Index
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Oxford University Press Australia New Media
Book SynopsisThe fourth edition of Terry Flew's New Media combines a comprehensive overview of theories of new media with contemporary cases studies.Table of Contents1. INTRODUCTION TO NEW MEDIA; 2. TWENTY KEY NEW MEDIA CONCEPTS; 3. APPROACHES TO NEW MEDIA; 4. SOCIAL NETWORKING MEDIA; 5. PARTICIPATORY MEDIA CULTURES; 6. GAMES: TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRY, CULTURE; 7. ONLINE NEWS AND THE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM; 8. CREATIVE INDUSTRIES; 9. THE GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY; 10. TRANSFORMING HIGHER EDUCATION; 11. INTERNET LAW, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE; 12. ONLINE ACTIVISM AND NETWORKED POLITICS; 13. CONCLUSION
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The University of Chicago Press Freaks Talk Back
Book SynopsisAre talk shows turning everything they touch into freak shows? This book claims that the socially deviant may be featured on-air for ridicule in the public eye, but the result is empowerment through exploitation. The book illuminates the dilemmas and practicalities of media visibility.
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The University of Chicago Press Processing Politics Learning from Television in
Book SynopsisIntegrating a broad range of research on how people learn, this text shows that televised presentations - at their best - actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning. The author critiques political offerings in terms of their compatibility with our learning capabilities.
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The University of Chicago Press Afterimages Photography and U.S. Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisIn 2005, photographer Chris Hondros captured a striking image of a young Iraqi girl in the aftermath of the killing of her parents by American soldiers. The shot stunned the world and has since become iconiccomparable to the infamous photo by Nick Ut of a Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack. Both images serve as microcosms for their respective conflicts. Afterimages looks at the work of war photographers like Hondros and Ut to understand how photojournalism interacts with the American worldview. Liam Kennedy here maps the evolving relations between the American way of war and photographic coverage of it. Organized in its first section around key US military actions over the last fifty years, the book then moves on to examine how photographers engaged with these conflicts on wider ethical and political grounds, and finally on to the genre of photojournalism itself. Illustrated throughout with examples of the photographs being considered, Afterimages argues that photographs a
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The University of Chicago Press Network Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThe term network is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliché, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. Network Aesthetics, in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with interconnected life, reveals the network's role as a way for people to construct and manage their worldand their view of themselves. Each chapter considers how popular media and artistic forms make sense of decentralized network metaphors and infrastructures. Patrick Jagoda first examines narratives from the 1990s and 2000s, including the novel Underworld, the film Syriana, and the television series The Wire, all of which play with network forms to promote reflection on domestic crisis and imperial decline in contemporary America. Jagoda then looks at digital media that are interactive, nonlinear, and dependent on connected audiences to show how recent approaches, such as those in the videogame Journey, open up
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University of Chicago Press Crosstalk Citizens Candidates the Media in A
Book SynopsisThis analysis of the 1992 US presidential campaign looks at how citizens use information in the media to make their voting decisions and how politicians and the media interact to shape that information.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Pt. 1: Studying Campaign Discourse 1: Constructing the Campaign 2: The Design of the Study Pt. 2: Citizen, Candidate, and Media Messages 3: The Citizens' Agenda 4: Candidate Advertising 5: Media Coverage 6: Shared Constructions: Ad Watches and Candidate Interviews Pt. 3: Interpreting Messages and Voting 7: How Citizens Interpret Campaign Communication 8: Media Use and Candidate Assessments 9: The Logic of Considerations and the Vote Pt. 4: A Constructionist Model of Voting 10: Discourse and Decision Appendixes Notes References Author Index General Index
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The University of Chicago Press Making Local News Paper
Book SynopsisAsks why crimes and accidents earn more news coverage than development and policy issues. Containing interviews with both journalists and city officials, this study looks at the economic motives of media owners, the professional motives of journalists, and the strategies of media-wise politicians.
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The University of Chicago Press Thats the Way It Is
Book SynopsisTracing the history of televised news, from the household names of the late 1940s and early '50s, like Eric Sevareid and Walter Cronkite, through the rise of cable, the political power of Fox News, and more, this book shows us an industry in transition, where news magazines and celebrity profiles vie with political news and serious investigations.Trade Review"As television news becomes more partisan, more emotional, and leans more toward the trivial, the blame usually falls on venal media moguls and cynical journalists. That's the Way It Is reminds us that the structure of the competitive environment, government regulation, and most importantly the preferences of the audience have always shaped the news we see on TV. This is an important book because it reminds us that even if we don't like the picture, we are actually looking in a mirror." (Jack Fuller, former editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune and author of News Values)
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The University of Chicago Press Connected Engagements with Media at Centurys End
Book SynopsisThe evolution of media continues to generate new avenues for cultural criticism, political activism and self-reflection. This book, part of the Late Editions series, explores both the new pathways being forged through media and the predicaments of those still struggling to find their way.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Volume and Reintroduction to the Series George E. Marcus 1: The Electronic Vernacular Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 2: A Torn Page, Ghosts on the Computer Screen, Words, Images, Labyrinths: Exploring the Frontiers of Cyberspace Ron Burnett 3: Framed, or How the Internet Set Me Up Christopher Pound 4: A Tale of an Electronic Community Mazyar Lotfalian 5: Computing for Tibet: Virtual Politics in the Post-Cold War Era Meg McLagan 6: Knowing Each Other through AIDS Video: A Dialogue between AIDS Activist Videomakers Juanita Mohammed, Alexandra Juhasz. 7: Representing "Bhopal" Kim Laughlin 8: Horizons of Interactivity: Making the News at Time Warner Kim Laughlin, John Monberg. 9: Rewriting New York City Joe Austin 10: Shades of Twilight: Anna Deavere Smith and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 Dorinne Kondo 11: Producing and Mediating Science as a Worldview in Postwar America: Two Interviews Fred Myers, Rayna Rapp. 12: DEBI Does Democracy: Recollecting Democratic Voter Education in the Electronic Media Prior to the South African Elections Ruth Elizabeth Teer-Tomaselli Appendix: Selected Excerpts from the Collective Editorial Meeting, 30 April 1994 Contributors Index
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