Media studies Books
The University of Chicago Press Who Deliberates Mass Media in Modern Democracy
Book SynopsisIn three case studies of media coverage in the 1990s, this book explores the role of the press in structuring political discussion. In the conclusion, Page identifies the conditions under which media outlets actively shape and limit the ideas and information available to the public.Table of ContentsPreface 1: Public Deliberation and Democracy 2: The New York Times Goes to War with Iraq 3: Assigning Blame for the Los Angeles Riots 4: Zoe Baird, Nannies, and Talk Radio Jason Tannenbaum, Benjamin I. Page. 5: Conclusion: Successes and Failures of Mediated Deliberation References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Book Was There
Book SynopsisAn essay that focuses on reading in an e-reader world. Contending that our experience of reading belies naive generalizations about the future of books, it offers an elegantly argued and up-to-date tribute to the endurance of books in our ever-evolving digital world.Trade Review"This is a deep and delightful performance, elucidating the multiple, shifting, overlapping ways that embodied persons interact with books. Like Walter Benjamin, Andrew Piper is able to filter vast learning through a distinctive writerly sensibility: whether he meditates on the computability of texts, the uses of handwriting, the faces of Facebook, or the varieties of annotation, he is a companionable and erudite guide. Book Was There is a book to return to: its provocations and illuminations multiply with each visit." -Alan Jacobs, author of The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction"
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University of Chicago Press Speaking of Abortion Television Authority in
Book SynopsisA study of how women's views of television and the media relate to their personal stance on abortion. Over four years, the authors watched television with women, visiting city houses, suburban subdivisions, modern condominiums, and public housing projects. Here are the results of that research.
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The University of Chicago Press Make Room for TV Television and the Family Ideal
Book SynopsisBetween 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set--and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched. In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel chronicles the enormous impact of television in the formative years of the new medium: how, over the course of a single decade, television became an intimate part of everyday life. What did Americans expect from it? What effects did the new daily ritual of watching television have on children? Was television welcomed as an unprecedented window on the world, or as a one-eyed monster that would disrupt households and corrupt children? Drawing on an ambitious array of unconventional sources, from sitcom scripts to articles and advertisements in women's magazines, Spigel offers the fullest available account of the popular response to television in the postwar years. She chronicles the role of television as a focus for evolving debates on issues ranging from the ideal of the perfect family and chang
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University of Illinois Press Rich Media Poor Democracy
Book SynopsisArgues that the media, far from providing a bedrock for freedom and democracy, have become a significant antidemocratic force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide. This title addresses the corporate media explosion and the corresponding implosion of public life that characterizes our times.Trade Review"McChesney . . . provokes an absolutely necessary discussion on the relationship between the control of information and our hopes for a genuine democracy."--Howard Zinn"McChesney argues persuasively that whatever journalists' personal politics, the media's dominant ideology is pro-market and business class-biased and rests on the assumption that the news business works just fine. It takes a nonjournalist like McChesney to get the big picture."--Russ Baker, Los Angeles Times"[He] has gone to the heart of the matter. The best stuff in McChesney's book is not just how it happened but what the results are in terms of quality."--Molly Ivins
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University of Illinois Press Mister Pulitzer and the Spider
Book SynopsisA spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings. A prime case is the news. Digital webs seem to have trapped legacy media, killing off newspapers and journalists' jobs. Did news businesses and careers fall prey to the digital Spider? To solve the mystery, Kevin Barnhurst spent thirty years studying news going back to the realism of the 1800s. The usual suspects--technology, business competition, and the pursuit of scoops--are only partly to blame for the fate of news. The main culprit is modernism from the Mister Pulitzer era, which transformed news into an ideology called journalism. News is no longer what audiences or experts imagine. Stories have grown much longer over the past century and now include fewer events, locations, and human beings. Background and context rule instead. News producers adopted modernism to explain the world without recognizing how modernist ideas influence the knowledge they produce. When webs ofTrade Review"Ambitious and fascinating… A worthy invitation to further research and discussion about the role of journalism in society."--International Journal of Communication"Barnhurst's focus on the forms of news across media in the last century and this one is welcome and fresh. It is closely argued, often subtle and always interesting in its overall hypotheses. . . . It is thoughtful, seasoned and intellectually ambitious work." --Media History "This is a magisterial book, required reading for anyone seriously interested in the recent history or future of journalism. . . . Virtually every chapter has multiple insights worth consideration on their own, and it will, as important books do, generate future scholarship of note."--Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly "This book merits serious attention and informed appreciation from multiple sets of readers."--Journal of Communication "Kevin Barnhurst's Mister Pulitzer and the Spider successfully interweaves two distinct threads of exposition and narrative, with both contributing to why this book merits serious attention and informed appreciation from multiple sets of readers." --Journal of Communication"Everyone has a theory about what's gone wrong with the news business. Kevin Barnhurst's explanation is original, elegantly presented, and potentially useful both to journalists and to citizens trying to decide which version of the news is worth paying attention to."--James Fallows, author of Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy"With unparalleled scholarly precision spanning more than 200 years, Kevin Barnhurst chronicles the tumultuous evolution and revolution of news--how it's created and consumed. Through his panoramic lens, Barnhurst reveals a macro and micro focus on why today's newspapers are thinner, broadcast sound-bites shorter, and news often skeletal on the facts, the result of technology developing shorter attention spans. Spoiler alert, Mister Pulitzer and the Spider leaves us with a glimmer of hope."--Roberta Baskin, award-winning investigative journalist"Over the years, I've found few scholars whose work is as original, insightful, or readable as Kevin Barnhurst's. Mister Pulitzer and the Spider exceeds even that lofty expectation. Barnhurst's story of how the hierarchy and meaning of reporters' five Ws have changed since the late 1800s explains more fully how the news has shaped society, and been shaped by it, than any book I've read. If your nightstand, classroom, or personal library has room for only one book on journalism, make it this one."--Thomas E. Patterson, author of Informing the News: The Need for Knowledge-Based Journalism"Kevin Barnhurst's methodical analysis of the forms in which journalistic expression has developed deserves study by anyone interested in public knowledge in an age of expanding communication technology."--Bill Kovach, co-author of The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect "Kevin Barnhurst's tour of a century of American news draws on an imaginative blend of empirical content analysis and cultural criticism. Mister Pulitzer and the Spider explores how news evolved from the realism of storytelling to the modernism of interpretation and is full of interesting surprises for anyone who cares about the future of journalism in the Internet age."--David Nord, author of Communities of Journalism: A History of American Newspapers and Their Readers "Far-reaching in its scope and provocative in its claims, this is a work of brilliant originality."--Stephen Coleman, co-author of The Media and the Public: "Them" and "Us" in Media Discourse
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MO - University of Illinois Press Justice Provocateur
Book SynopsisAn insightful character-study of one of television's most compelling detectivesTrade Review"Exploring the television series Prime Suspect as an exemplar of a newly emergent 'progressive moral fiction,' Cavender and Jurik blend an examination of gender role dynamics in the criminal justice system with the experience of victims, offenders, and professionals within that system. Justice Provocateur offers a novel device for exploring social class and justice through popular culture."--Michael A. Hallett, author of Private Prisons in America: A Critical Race Perspective "This book should appeal to anyone interested in examining or studying portrayals of women in the mass media and popular culture, as well as anyone interested in how fiction can relate to and reflect the real world."--Contemporary Sociology
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University of Illinois Press The Battle over Marriage
Book SynopsisReveals both the promises and the limitations of commercial media as a route to social change.Trade Review"As Leigh Moscowitz illustrates, some of the most prominent debates have taken place in the mass media, and thus, much of the story of same-sex marriage has been shaped by the early 21st-century mass media environment and journalist norms. . . . Moscowitz effectively shows that when activists pushed for same-sex marriage on a national stage in 2003-2004, they chose to present gay and lesbian couples as mainstream, White, middle-class, and embodying essentially conservative values. . . . The Battle Over Marriage is well worth the read."--Journalism "A very significant contribution to advancing understanding of media coverage of gay marriage. Moscowitz presents a controversial topic in a way that lets the facts and players speak for themselves."--Felix F. Gutierrez, coauthor of Racism, Sexism, and the News Media: Multicultural Issues into the New Communications Age"Highly accessible, well-written, and engaging, Moscowitz's The Battle Over Marriage proves to be a very thought provoking book that depicts the evolution of coverage and the debate surrounding marriage equality in America. This is a must read for scholars of LGBT studies, social change, family studies, and anyone with an interest in understanding the power of the media in shaping public discourse and attitudes."--Contemporary Sociology "A comprehensive, engaging, and required study for those interested in same-sex marriage, social activism, journalism, media studies, and the benefits and consequences of visibility. Highly Recommended."--Choice“The book provides an invaluable road map for historians who are interested in traversing the maze of developments that led to gay marriage as it came to be defined in 2013.”--American Journalism "An invaluable road map for historians who are interested in traversing the maze of developments that led to gay marriage as it came to be defined in 2013."--American Journalism
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MIT Press Cultural Analytics
Book SynopsisA book at the intersection of data science and media studies, presenting concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data.How can we see a billion images? What analytical methods can we bring to bear on the astonishing scale of digital culture--the billions of photographs shared on social media every day, the hundreds of millions of songs created by twenty million musicians on Soundcloud, the content of four billion Pinterest boards? In Cultural Analytics, Lev Manovich presents concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data. Drawing on more than a decade of research and projects from his own lab, Manovich offers a gentle, nontechnical introduction to the core ideas of data analytics and discusses the ways that our society uses data and algorithms.
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MIT Press Ltd Critical Code Studies Software Studies
Book SynopsisAn argument that we must read code for more than what it does—we must consider what it means.Computer source code has become part of popular discourse. Code is read not only by programmers but by lawyers, artists, pundits, reporters, political activists, and literary scholars; it is used in political debate, works of art, popular entertainment, and historical accounts. In this book, Mark Marino argues that code means more than merely what it does; we must also consider what it means. We need to learn to read code critically. Marino presents a series of case studies—ranging from the Climategate scandal to a hactivist art project on the US-Mexico border—as lessons in critical code reading.Marino shows how, in the process of its circulation, the meaning of code changes beyond its functional role to include connotations and implications, opening it up to interpretation and inference—and misinterpretation and reappropriation. The Climategate controve
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MIT Press Ltd Ambient Play Playful Thinking
Book SynopsisHow mobile games are part of our day-to-day lives and the ways we interact across digital, material, and social landscapes.We often play games on our mobile devices when we have some time to kill—waiting in line, pausing between tasks, stuck on a bus. We play in solitude or in company, alone in a bedroom or with others in the family room. In Ambient Play, Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson examine how mobile gameplay fits into our day-to-day lives. They show that as mobile games spread across different genres, platforms, practices, and contexts, they become an important way of experiencing and navigating a digitally saturated world. Mobile games become conduits for what the authors call ambient play, pervading much of our social and communicative terrain. We become digital wayfarers, moving constantly among digital, social, and social worlds.Hjorth and Richardson explore how households are transformed by media—how idiosyncratic media use can
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MIT Press Ltd Information and Society The MIT Press Essential
Book SynopsisA short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. Using information in its everyday, nonspecialized sense, Michael Buckland explores the influence of information on what we know, the role of communication and recorded information in our daily lives, and the difficulty (or ease) of finding information. He shows that all this involves human perception, social behavior, changing technologies, and issues of trust.Buckland argues that every society is an “information society”; a “non-information society” would be a contradiction in terms. B
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University of Washington Press Verse Going Viral
Book SynopsisExamines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. This book sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry.Trade Review"[An] outstanding monograph….this book is not ‘just’ about poetry, and lives up to the expectations raised by its focus on the online world, and wider issues at the confluence of culture, economy, media, and politics in the conjuncture of twenty-first-century China." -- Maghiel van Crevel * Asiascape *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Poetry on the Web 2. Poetry in Print 3. Poetry on the Stage 4. Poetry in the News Conclusion Appendix | Poetry Survey Questions Glossary of Chinese Terms Notes Bibliography Index
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Dairylandia Dispatches from a State of Mind
Book SynopsisSteve Hannah's chance detour through the Midwest cut short a planned cross-country trip. He found himself in Wisconsin, a distinctly different place from the east coast where he was born and raised. Dairylandia recounts Steve Hannah's burgeoning love for his adopted state through the writings of his long-lived column, “State of Mind”.
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Little Brown and Company FOOLS ON THE HILL
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Taylor & Francis The Dynamics of Political Communication
Book SynopsisThe third edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication continues its comprehensive coverage of communication and politics, focusing on problematic issues that bear on the functioning of democracy in an age of partisanship, social media, and political leadership that questions mediaâs legitimacy.The book covers the intersections between politics and communication, calling on related social science disciplines as well as normative political philosophy. This new edition is thoroughly updated and includes a survey of the contemporary political communication environment, unpacking fake news, presidential communication, hostile media bias, concerns about the waning of democracy, partisan polarization, political advertising and marketing, the relationship between social media and the news media, and the 2020 election, all the while drawing on leading new scholarship in these areas.It's ideally suited for upper-level undergraduate and graduate political communicatTrade Review "In the academic world, it’s rare that I think of myself a ‘fan’ of other scholars. But that is exactly the way I have always felt about Rick Perloff and his contributions to the mass communication literature. Perloff’s explications of theory and research are so comprehensive in scope and clear in explanation that I find myself to be an ardent fan. In The Dynamics of Political Communication, Perloff proves once again that he is a beacon assisting scholars navigate to where we are now and shining light on where we are bound."—Douglas McLeod, University of Wisconsin—Madison"Perloff's The Dynamics of Political Communication remains a go-to reference for students and scholars, showing the richness and dynamic evolution of the field. This edition is full of insights on the shapeshifting contours of political communication and new evidence that help us reconsider standard theories, concepts and arguments."—Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University"With the most recent edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics in a Digital Age, Perloff again synthesizes key strands of literature that define contemporary political communication research, updating it to consider fake news, misinformation, populist incivility and the politicization of the pandemic fueled by increasingly ideological media."—Dhavan V. Shah, University of Wisconsin—Madison"In the academic world, it’s rare that I think of myself a ‘fan’ of other scholars. But that is exactly the way I have always felt about Rick Perloff and his contributions to the mass communication literature. Perloff’s explications of theory and research are so comprehensive in scope and clear in explanation that I find myself to be an ardent fan. In The Dynamics of Political Communication, Perloff proves once again that he is a beacon assisting scholars navigate to where we are now and shining light on where we are bound."—Douglas McLeod, University of Wisconsin—Madison"Perloff's The Dynamics of Political Communication remains a go-to reference for students and scholars, showing the richness and dynamic evolution of the field. This edition is full of insights on the shapeshifting contours of political communication and new evidence that help us reconsider standard theories, concepts and arguments."—Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University"With the most recent edition of The Dynamics of Political Communication: Media and Politics in a Digital Age, Perloff again synthesizes key strands of literature that define contemporary political communication research, updating it to consider fake news, misinformation, populist incivility and the politicization of the pandemic fueled by increasingly ideological media."—Dhavan V. Shah, University of Wisconsin—MadisonTable of ContentsPart 1: Foundations of Political Communication 1. Prologue 2. Introduction to Political Communication 3. Philosophy, Democracy, and Political Communication Part 2: Political Communication Concepts and Effects 4. The Study of Political Communication 5. Media and Political Knowledge 6. Contemporary Political Socialization 7. Setting and Building the Agenda 8. Framing 9. Biases, the Beholder, and Media Effects: The Partisan Psychology of Political Communication Part 3: Communication and the Presidential Election Campaign 10. Presidential Rhetoric from Television to Tweeting 11. Unpacking Political News Bias 12. Gender Bias in Political News 13. Political News, Polls, and the Presidential Campaign 14. Presidential Nominations in the Media Age 15. Political Advertising in Presidential Election Campaigns 16. Presidential Debates and Postscript
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Becoming a Public Relations Writer
Book SynopsisThe sixth edition of Becoming a Public Relations Writer continues its place as an essential guide to the writing process for public relations practice. Smith provides comprehensive examples, guidelines and exercises that allow students to both learn the fundamentals of public relations writing and practice their writing skills. Ethical and legal issues are woven throughout the text, which covers public relations writing formats for both journalistic and organizational media. This new edition updates and expands its coverage of writing for digital and social mediaincluding blogs, websites and wikis, as well as social networking (Facebook), microblogging (Twitter), photo sharing (Instagram and Snapchat) and video sharing (YouTube). This range reflects the current landscape of public relations writing, preparing undergraduate students for a public relations career.Becoming a Public Relations Writer is a trusted resource for courseTrade Review"Smith remains strong in his contributions to teaching traditional media (fliers, brochures, newspaper editorials, etc.). There is zero issue to be taken with his choice of content to include as important, nor with his sensible approach to conveying information."-- Deborah Bowen, University of South FloridaTable of ContentsPart I: Principles of Effective Writing 1. Writing…and What It Means to You 2. Effective Writing 3. Persuasive and Ethical Communication 4. The Writing Process 5. News: The Basis for All Strategic Communication 6. News Writing Style Part II: Paid, Earned, Owned and Shared Media 7. Social Media and Wiki 8. Website and Blog 9. Fact Sheet and Advisory 10. Print News Release 11. Broadcast News Release 12. Transmedia News Package 13. Advocacy and Opinion 14. News Feature 15. Brochure, Newsletter and Corporate Report 16. Donor Appeals 17. Speeches, Presentations and Interviews 18. Public Relations Advertising Appendix A: Common Sense Stylebook for Public Relations Writers Appendix B: Copy Editing
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Now Media
Book SynopsisNow in its fourth edition, this book is one of the leading texts on the evolution of electronic mass communication in the last century, giving students a clear understanding of how the media of yesterday shaped the media world of today. Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Opting Into ‘Now’ MediaChapter 2. From Marconi to Mobile Listening. Chapter 3. Television: From Analog to Digital to 8KChapter 4. Radio and Television Programs and Programming Chapter 5. Interconnected by the Internet Chapter 6. Social Media: Private Conversations in Public Places Chapter 7 Digital Devices: Up Close, Personal, and Customizable Chapter 8. XR: Inside of Media, Inside the MindChapter 9. Advertising: From Clay Tablets to Digital Tablets Chapter 10. Audience Measurement: Who’s Listening, Who’s Watching, Who’s Surfing? Chapter 11. The Business of Entertainment and Media Ownership Chapter 12. Working Behind the Scenes in Media Chapter 13. Feature Films: 'The Movies'Chapter 14. Personal and Social Influence of Media Index
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Random House USA Inc A Long Way From Home Growing Up in the American
Book SynopsisReflections on America and the American experience as he has lived and observed it by the bestselling author of The Greatest Generation, whose iconic career in journalism has spanned more than fifty yearsFrom his parents’ life in the Thirties, on to his boyhood along the Missouri River and on the prairies of South Dakota in the Forties, into his early journalism career in the Fifties and the tumultuous Sixties, up to the present, this personal story is a reflection on America in our time. Tom Brokaw writes about growing up and coming of age in the heartland, and of the family, the people, the culture and the values that shaped him then and still do today. His father, Red Brokaw, a genius with machines, followed the instincts of Tom’s mother Jean, and took the risk of moving his small family from an Army base to Pickstown, South Dakota, where Red got a job as a heavy equipment operator in the Army Corps of Engineers’ proj
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication is the only book to offer a fully comprehensive and in-depth survey of the contemporary discipline of sport communication. It explores communication within, through, and for sport in all its theoretical, conceptual, cultural, behavioral, practical and managerial aspects, tracing the contours of this expansive, transdisciplinary and international discipline and demonstrating that there are few aspects of contemporary sport that donât rely on effective communications.Including contributions from leading sport media and communications scholars and professionals from around the world, the book examines emerging (new and social) media, traditional (print, broadcast and screen) media, sociological themes in communication in sport, and management issues, at every level, from the interpersonal to communication within and between sport organisations and global institutions. Taking stock of current research, new ideas and key issueTable of ContentsIntroduction Section I: Theoretical and Conceptual Aspects of Sport Communication 1. Communication Theories and Sport Studies 2. In a Different Game? Reflections on Sports in the Media as Seen from a Game Perspective 3. Gender in the Workplace: Using a Post-Structural Approach to Theorize Diversity in Sports Media Organizations 4. TV Broadcasting: Toward a Pluri- and Inter-semiotic Approach 5. Sport as a Communication System 6. Social Media and Sport Communication: Abundant Theoretical Opportunities 7. Applying Public Relations Theory to Increase the Understanding of Sport Communication 8. Sport, Analytics, and the Number as a Communication Medium 9. Research Methodologies in Sport Communication 10. Athlete-Media Communication: A Theoretical Perspective on How Athletes Use and Understand Gendered Sport Communication Section II: Traditional Media Associated with Sport Communication 11. A Global Crisis? International Perspectives on the State of the Print Sport Media 12. Sports Reporting and Journalistic Principles 13. Chronicling Sport, Branding Institutions: The Television Sports Documentary from Broadcast to Cable 14. Sports Broadcasting: History, Technology, and Implications 15. The Glass Ceiling and Beyond: Tracing the Explanations for Women’s Lack of Power in Sports Journalism 16. Understanding the Biggest Show in Media: What the Olympic Games Communicates to the World 17. The State of the Sports Press: Reflections on an International Study 18. The Impact of Sport Publicity on Sport Fans’ Emotion, Future Prediction, and Behavioral Response 19. Television Broadcast Rights: Still the Golden Goose 20. Defining Fitness Communication: Conceptualizing an Emerging Segment of the Sport Industry Section III: Sport Communication and New and Emerging Media 21. The New World of Social Media and Broadcast Sports Reporting 22. Turning the Page with Newspapers: Influence of the Internet on Sports Coverage 23. Content, Copyright, and Carriage: Issues for Sports Media Rights in the Digital Age 24. Subjectivity in 140 Characters: The Use of Social Media by Marginalized Groups 25. Sport Fandom in the Digital World 26. Emerging Social Media and Applications in Sport 27. Focus on Fantasy: An Overview of Fantasy Sport Consumption 28. Using Social Network Analysis in Sport Communication Research 29. Evaluating Sports Websites from an Information Management Perspective 30. Communicating Through Sport Video Games Section IV: Sociological Aspects of Sport Communication 31. Enjoyment from Watching Mediated Sports: Four Conceptual Frameworks to Understand the Enjoyment Construct 32. Gender and Sexualities in Sport Media 33. Going Public: Communicating a Critical Perspective on Sport 34. The Communicative Complexity of Youth Sport: Maintaining Benefits, Managing Discourses, and Challenging Identifies 35. The Babe/Baby Factor: Sport, Females, and Mass Media 36. Best Practices for Media Coverage of Athletes with Disabilities: A Person-first Language Approach 37. Race Portrayals in Sport Communication 38. Uses of Sport Communication in Groups: Meaning and Effects in Public Viewing 39. Sport, Celebrity, and the Meaning of Style 40. Media Coverage of International Sport Section V: The Management of Sport Communication 41. Media, Sport, and Consumer Culture: The Fan as Consumer in Television Commercials 42. Sport Communication and Social Responsibility 43. For the Cure, the Kids, and the Cause: Practicing Advocacy through Communication and Sport 44. The Culture of Communication in Athletics 45. Strategic Influence and Sport Communication Leaders 46. Communication and Sports Officials 47. Rapidly Advancing Technology and Policy Choices: Transforming the Economic Landscape of the Sport Media 48. College Athletic Communications: Evolution of the Field 49. Dangerous Currents: How PR and Advertising Influence Sports Reporting and Cause Ethical Problems 50. Critical Perspectives in Sports Public Relations
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) The Times
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The University of Michigan Press Broadcasting Voice and Accountability
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The University of Michigan Press Owning the Olympics
Book SynopsisOffers a framework with which to understand the struggles by which multiple entities such as the International Olympic Committee, the Beijing Organizing Committee (BOCOG), corporate sponsors, and the Chinese Communist Party itself are seeking to influence and control the narratives through which these Games will be understood.
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The University of Michigan Press When Media Are New
Book SynopsisA study of the fascinating relationship between media and everyday life. It investigates the human factors involved in technological change and their implications for future media. It is suitable for media and communication scholars, historians, organizational theorists, and industry professionals.
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The University of Michigan Press The End of Normal
Book SynopsisExplores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the 21st century unfolds. The book’s provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues of disability, depression, physician-assisted suicide, medical diagnosis, transgender, and other identities.
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The University of Michigan Press The Necropastoral
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The University of Michigan Press Tempest
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The University of Michigan Press The Limits of Legitimacy
Book SynopsisWhen the US Supreme Court announces a decision, reporters simplify and dramatize the complex legal issues by highlighting dissenting opinions and thus emphasizing conflict among the justices. This often sensationalistic coverage fosters public controversy over specific rulings. In The Limits of Legitimacy, Michael A. Zilis illuminates this link between case law and public opinion.
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Performance and Media
Book SynopsisAn innovative approach for explicating and mapping work at the media and performance nexusTrade Review“By drawing distinctions, differences, limits, and oppositions, by naming them with terms that already have a context, history, set of cultural associations, and meanings, the authors ‘create’ the board on which others can play. Bay-Cheng, Parker-Starbuck, and Saltz offer maps for the field (understood as a metaphorical territory) that will allow others to perform operations—creative and/or analytical—that may not have been possible otherwise.” — Lance Gharavi, Arizona State University
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The University of Michigan Press Television Violence and Public Policy
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Television Violence and Public Policy
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Penguin Books Ltd A Field Guide to Lies
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Penguin Putnam Inc Battle of Ink and Ice
Book SynopsisAbsolutely gripping… a perfectly splendid read—I highly, highly recommend it” -- Douglas Preston, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey GodA sixty-year saga of frostbite and fake news that follows the no-holds-barred battle between two legendary explorers to reach the North Pole, and the newspapers which stopped at nothing to get–and sell–the story.In the fall of 1909, a pair of bitter contests captured the world’s attention. The American explorers Robert Peary and Frederick Cook both claimed to have discovered the North Pole, sparking a vicious feud that was unprecedented in international scientific and geographic circles. At the same time, the rivalry between two powerful New York City newspapers—the storied Herald and the ascendant Times—fanned the flames of the so-called polar controversy, as each paper financially and reputationally committed itself to
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Random House USA Inc The Persuaders
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy?from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more?by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist?Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America?by refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds.??Robert B. Reich, best-selling author of The SystemThe lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people?s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Debates are framed in moralistic terms, with enemies battling the righteous. Movements for justice build barriers to entry, instead of on-ramps. Political parties focus on mobilizing the faithful rather than wooing the skeptical. And leaders who seek to forge coalitions are labeled sellouts.In The Persuaders, Anand Giridharadas takes us inside these movements and battles, seeking out the dissenters who continue to champion persuasion in an age of polarization. We meet a leader of Black Lives Matter; a trailblazer in the feminist resistance to Trumpism; white parents at a seminar on raising adopted children of color; Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez; a team of door knockers with an uncanny formula for changing minds on immigration; an ex-cult member turned QAnon deprogrammer; and, hovering menacingly offstage, Russian operatives clandestinely stoking Americans? fatalism about one another.As the book?s subjects grapple with how to call out threats and injustices while calling in those who don?t agree with them but just might one day, they point a way to healing, and changing, a fracturing country.
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Alfred A. Knopf The Persuaders
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy—from disinformation fighters to a leader of Black Lives Matter to Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and more—by the best-selling author of Winners Take All and award-winning former New York Times columnist“Anand Giridharadas shows the way we get real progressive change in America—by refusing to write others off, building more welcoming movements, and rededicating ourselves to the work of changing minds.” —Robert B. Reich, best-selling author of The SystemThe lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people’s minds in order to change things. But America is suffering a crisis of faith in persuasion that is putting its democracy and the planet itself at risk. Americans increasingly
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Random House USA Inc Covering Islam How the Media and the Experts
Book SynopsisIn this classic work, the author of Culture and Imperialism reveals the hidden agendas and distortions of fact that underlie even the most objective coverage of the Islamic world. • With a new foreword by Laleh KhaliliNo one stuyding the relations between the West and the decolonizing world can ignore Mr. Said's work. --The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the Iranian hostage crisis through the Gulf War and the bombing of the World Trade Center, the American news media have portrayed Islam as a monolithic entity, synonymous with terrorism and religious hysteria. At the same time, Islamic countries use Islam to justify unrepresentative and often repressive regimes. Combining political commentary with literary criticism, Covering Islam continues Edward Said's lifelong investigation of the ways in which language not only describes but also defines political reality.
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University of Queensland Press Mobilising the Audience UQP Cultural and Media
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Rowman & Littlefield Attack the Messenger How Politicians Turn You
Book SynopsisPoliticians and the media are natural enemies. When politicians turn the public against the media, everyone loses - especially unbiased and courageous news reporting. Worse, when traditional reporters and media are displaced, the pundits and alternative media take over.Trade ReviewI have covered many a presidential campaign with Craig Crawford, and I can honestly say that, of all the so-called 'political experts' out there, he definitely consumes the most cheeseburgers. -- Dave BarryCraig Crawford has written a definitive book that throws new light on the roles of the press and officialdom with sparkling anecdotes that prove his point. He doesn't spare either side, but the First Amendment comes out a winner in this scintillating book. -- Helen Thomas, Dean, White House Press Corps, Hearst ColumnistHow lies are made into the truth, and truth made into lies; how the liars come to be perceived as victims and the truth-tellers, evildoers. A cautionary story for those of all political stripes, to say nothing of journalists and those who consume information today, and Crawford's nailed it. -- Keith Olbermann, MSNBCIt's all here—the good, the bad, and the ugly . . . and cable, too—all compiled by a political pro with a jeweler's eye for detail and the distance vision of a fighter pilot. Craig Crawford knows his beat. -- Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor, NBC Nightly NewsCraig's book made me alternately squeal with delight at the media's arrogance and curse his mother, Toby, for giving him life where he reveals the complicity of politicians in the contemporary degradation of political/press affairs. But Attack the Messenger is not about assigning blame; its an inspiration to stop the madness for democracy's sake. The media must stop presuming all politicians are corrupt, egomaniacal liars, and we pols have to consider the possibility that not all media are evil, self-serving, out-of-touch cynics. Both professions are anchored in ideas, populated with idealists who all rue their tradecrafts have degenerated to a point that devalues both their noble worlds and worse—the public they both long to serve. -- Mary Matalin, Republican political consultantWith wit and insider knowledge, Craig Crawford identifies America's Most Wanted: the con-men, spinners, character assassins, electronic demagogues, greedy bottom-liners, and barefaced liars who—with rather too much help from sloppiness in the media—are destroying public faith in the institution of a free press. This is a timely and entertaining book—which is more than I can say for most of the people in its gallery. -- Tina Brown, Washington Post columnist and authorImpassioned dissection of the rapid devolution of the media's power in today's political environment...pull[s] together the principal moments of the ongoing struggles between the press and the government. * Publishers Weekly *Crawford . . . is a Washington insider, a purveyor of inside wisdom and a collector of mind-numbing detail. -- David Shribman * St. Petersburg Times *Provocative. . . . Mr. Crawford's book serves as a useful introduction to the issue at hand, providing a persuasive sketch of how the current White House, with assists from its two predecessors and a changing media landscape, has worked to undermine the mainstream press. -- Michiko Kakutani, Books of the Times Editor * The New York Times *Crawford often writes engagingly and has his moments of perceptiveness and clarity. -- Margaret Sullivan, editor-in-chief, The Buffalo News * Washington Monthly *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Turning the Tables Chapter 2 Blame the Messenger Chapter 3 A President Lies Chapter 4 Spinning Lies Chapter 5 A War Story Chapter 6 Who Will Tell the Truth? Chapter 7 The End of an Era Chapter 8 Winners and Losers Chapter 9 Media Culpa Chapter 10 How to Get the Real Story Chapter 11 What Now?
£15.26
Pluto Press Digital Demagogue
Book SynopsisAn analytical intervention into Trumpology, Twitter and authoritarianism.Trade Review'Christian Fuchs provides a much-needed account of authoritarianism under communicative capitalism. This thorough, empirically-rich study is essential reading for anyone concerned with the intensification of far-right power in a digital age' -- Jodi Dean, author of Crowds and Party (Verso, 2016)'Trump. Modi. Erdogan. Duterte. Le Pen. Farage. The list of authoritarian rulers and their henchmen goes on and on. For an excellent guide to understanding Trump and the dangerous worldwide movement he leads, you need go no further than this conceptually rich and empirically detailed book' -- Vincent Mosco, author of Becoming Digital: Toward a Post-Internet Society (Emerald Publishing, 2017)Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables 1. Introduction 2. Ideology, Nationalism and Fascism 3. Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Authoritarian Capitalism 4. Trumpism: Donald Trump and Authoritarian-Capitalist Statism 5. Trumpology: Donald Trump’s Ideology 6. Trump and Twitter: Authoritarian-Capitalist Ideology on Social Media 7. Conclusion: Authoritarian Communicative Capitalism and its Alternatives References Index
£18.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Scandal and Silence
Book SynopsisThis timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave and actively pursue scandals whenever they sense corruption. Scandal and Silence argues for a different perspective. Using case studies from the period 1988-2008, it shows that: Media neglect most corruption, providing too little, not too much scandal coverage; Scandals arise from rational, controlled processes, not emotional frenzies - and when scandals happen, it's not the media but governments and political parties that drive the process and any excesses that might occur; Significant scandals are indeed difficult for news organizations to initiate and harder for them to maintain and bring to appropriate closure; For these reasons cover-ups and lying often work, and truth remains essentially unrecorded, unremembered. Sometimes, bad behavior stimulates an avalanche Trade Review"This book combines insightful theoretical analysis with interesting empirical research, and is a major contribution to the field."Discourse and Communication"This is the definitive work on political scandal in the modern American press. The reader will find engaging and richly detailed accounts of dozens of scandals, along with explanations of why in some cases they became so overblown, and, in others, did not develop at all despite available evidence. The book raises important questions about how journalists tell stories, and why those stories so often fail to embody the ideals we associate with a free press in a democracy."Lance Bennett, University of Washington "Robert Entman has long been one of the most insightful analysts of the news media. Scandal and Silence will add to his reputation. Anyone who thought they had a reasonable understanding of how the media handle scandal will have to think again. A brilliant book that is a must read for those in the classroom, the newsroom, and the political cloakroom."Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsDedicationChapter 1: High Crimes or Misdemeanors?Chapter 2: Analyzing Media and Presidential ScandalChapter 3: Private Lives in the Public Sphere. What Do Journalists Know, and When Do They Tell It?Chapter 4: Secret Sins of 2008: The McCain, Edwards and Clinton Families' ValuesChapter 5: Dodging Scandals - and the DraftChapter 6: Rathergate: From a Scandal of Politics to a Scandal of JournalismChapter 7: Harkening to Other Matters: What News Looks like When a Scandal is SilencedAppendix to Chapter 7: Harken Data TablesChapter 8: Silenced Scandals of Grave MisconductChapter 9: Recalibrating Scandal and SilenceReferencesNotes
£24.46
University of British Columbia Press Political Elites in Canada
Book SynopsisA timely work that examines how Canadian political elites are adapting to changes in digital media technology.Table of ContentsForewordBy Susan DelacourtPart 1: Introduction1 Political Elites in the Age of Digital Media / Alex Marland, Andrea Lawlor, and Thierry Giasson2 Tips and Tactics for Securing Interviews with Political Elites / Alex Marland and Anna EsselmentPart 2: Governmental Political Elites3 The Intersection of Public Policy and Digital Communication: The Federal Government Vantage Point / Robert P. Shepherd and Bryan Evans4 Political Staff and Permanent Public Servants: Still Getting Along / Jennifer Robson and R. Paul Wilson5 Gender, Tone, and Content of Premiers’ News Coverage: A Matched Comparison / Melanee Thomas, Allison Harell, and Tania Gosselin6 From Elitism to Idealization: The Representation of Premiers in Social Media Videos / J.P. Lewis and Stéphanie Yates7 Supreme Court Judges: Traditional Elite Roles in a Digital Age / Erin CrandallPart 3: Non-Governmental Political Elites8 Communication as the Workhouse of Government Politics: The Liberal Party Leader and the Liberal Caucus / Cristine de Clercy9 Political Strategists in Canada / Jamie Gillies and David Coletto10 Hybridity and Mobility: Media Elite Status on Political Twitter Hashtags / Geneviève Chacon, Andrea Lawlor, and Thierry Giasson11 Scandals and Screenshots: Social Media Elites in Canadian Politics / Fenwick McKelvey, Marianne Côté, and Vincent Raynauld12 The National Message, the Local Tour: Candidates’ Use of Twitter during the 2015 Canadian Election / Julie Killin and Tamara A. Small13 Going Digital: Non-Profit Organizations in a Transformed Media Environment / Rachel LaforestPart 4: Conclusion14 Emerging Voices, Evolving Concerns / Andrea Lawlor, Alex Marland, and Thierry GiassonGlossary; Index
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press The Republic of Mass Culture Journalism
Book SynopsisCarefully drawing on interdisciplinary communication research, The Republic of Mass Culture presents a lively analysis of the shifting objectives and challenges of the media industries.Trade ReviewWe need books like James L. Baughman's The Republic of Mass Culture. -- Mike Conway Journalism History A useful reference for media scholars at many levels... comprehensive in its coverage, giving especially good coverage to journalistic and other sources often overlooked by academics. -- Megan Mullen Technology and CultureTable of ContentsSeries Editor's ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Voluntary Propagandists2. Americans and Their Mass media in 19453. Test Patterns: Television Comes to America, 1945-19554. The War for Attention: Responding to Television, 1947-19585. Evenings of Avoidance: Television in the 1960s6. Competing for the Marginal: Television's Rivals, 1958-19707. Network Television Triumphant, 1970-19818. The Babel Builders: Televison's Rivals, 1970-19909. The Shrinking Mass: Television and Mass Culture in the 1980s10. No Coutervailing Motives, 1991-1996Bibliographical EssayIndex
£29.04
Random House USA Inc Stop Teaching Our Kids To Kill Revised And
Book SynopsisCompletely revised and updated, a much-needed call to action for every parent, teacher, and citizen to help our children and stop the wave of killing and violence gripping America's youth Newtown, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Columbine. Thereis no bigger or more important issue in America than youth violence. Kids, some as young as ten years old, take up arms with the intention to murder. Why is this happening? Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetano believe the root cause is the steady diet of violent entertainment kids see on TV, in movies, and in the video games they play—witnessing hundreds of violent images a day. Offering incontrovertible evidence based on recent scientific studies and research, they posit that this media is not just conditioning children to be violent and see killing as acceptable but teaching them the mechanics of killing as well. Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill supplies the statistics, int
£12.34
Random House USA Inc American Girls Social Media and the Secret Lives
Book SynopsisA New York Times Bestseller Award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales crisscrossed the country talking to more than two hundred girls between the ages of thirteen and nineteen about their experiences online and off. They are coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media: Instagram, Whisper, Vine, Youtube, Kik, Ask.fm, Tinder. Provocative, explosive, and urgent, American Girls will ignite much-needed conversation about how we can help our daughters and sons negotiate the new social and sexual norms that govern their lives.
£15.19
Routledge Media Effects Third Edition Routledge
Book SynopsisWith contributions from some of the finest scholars in the discipline, Media Effects serves not only as a comprehensive reference volume for media effects study but also as an exceptional textbook for advanced courses in media effects. Covering the breadth of the media effects arena, this third edition provides updated material as well as new chapters focusing on effects of mobile media and other technologies. As this area of study continues to evolve, Media Effects will serve as a benchmark of theory and research for current and future generations of scholars.
£99.00
Beacon Press Momfluenced
Book SynopsisHow momfluencer culture impacts women psychologically as consumers, as performers of their stories, and as mothersOn Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating billions of dollars. The message is simple: we’re all just a couple of clicks away from a better, more beautiful experience of motherhood.Linen-clad momfluencers hawking essential oils, parenting manuals, baby slings, and sponsored content for Away suitcases make us want to forget that the reality of mothering in America is an isolating, exhausting, almost wholly unsupported endeavor. In a culture which denies mothers basic human rights, it feels good to click “purchase now” on whatever a momfluencer might be selling. It feels good to hope.Momfluencers are just like us, except they aren’t. They are mothers, yes. They are also marketing strategists, content creators, lighting experts, advertising executives, and artists. They are
£23.19
Beacon Press The Smartphone Society Technology Power and
Book SynopsisAddresses how tech empowers community organizing and protest movements to combat the systems of capitalism and data exploitation that helped drive tech’s own rise to ubiquity.Our smartphones have brought digital technology into the most intimate spheres of life. It’s time to take control of them, repurposing them as pathways to a democratically designed and maintained digital commons that prioritizes people over profit.Smartphones have appeared everywhere seemingly overnight: since the first iPhone was released, in 2007, the number of smartphone users has skyrocketed to over two billion. Smartphones have allowed users to connect worldwide in a way that was previously impossible, created communities across continents, and provided platforms for global justice movements. However, the rise of smartphones has led to corporations using consumers’ personal data for profit, unmonitored surveillance, and digital monopolies like Google, Facebook,
£20.40
Beacon Press Momfluenced
Book SynopsisHow momfluencer culture impacts women psychologically as consumers, as performers of their stories, and as mothersOn Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating billions of dollars. The message is simple: we’re all just a couple of clicks away from a better, more beautiful experience of motherhood.Linen-clad momfluencers hawking essential oils, parenting manuals, baby slings, and sponsored content for Away suitcases make us want to forget that the reality of mothering in America is an isolating, exhausting, almost wholly unsupported endeavor. In a culture which denies mothers basic human rights, it feels good to click “purchase now” on whatever a momfluencer might be selling. It feels good to hope.Momfluencers are just like us, except they aren’t. They are mothers, yes. They are also marketing strategists, content creators, lighting experts, advertising executives, and artists. They are
£16.11
