Media studies Books

Book SynopsisEqually accessible to college and high school students and the general public, this authoritative reference provides a complete listing of media concepts, figures, and techniques with illustrations and historical commentaries. Written by distinguished scholar and author Marcel Danesi, and with an introduction by Arthur Asa Berger, a leading figure in the world of media and communications, the dictionary also includes terms related to psychology, linguistics, aesthetics, computer science, semiotics, culture theory, anthropology, & more that have relevance in media studies. Each entry includes a definition in simple, clear language; an illustration where applicable, and historical commentary (who coined a term for example, why, who uses it, etc.). A bibliography, a directory of online resources, and a time-line of pop culture events that relate to media studies add to the dictionary's usefulness and appeal.Trade Review"More than a list of words and their definitions--it also is a snapshot of contemporary culture and an illustration of how modes of communication have changed.... The dictionary is clearly written, and will interest a wide audience-from media professionals to casual readers who want to learn more about the media environment." - Reference & Research Book News"

Read more less

Book SynopsisAt no other point in human history has technology played so vital and all pervasive a role in every day private and public life as now. Though the limitations imposed by nature were overcome right from the time when the project of modernity got introduced, yet the birth of new technologies have busted even the limits of industrial technologies. The industrial age technologies suffered from the basic defect of producer-bias . Consequently, they were cast in the top-down mould with little regard for individual customer preferences. The new information and communication technologies broke the reliance on mass-based production systems and resurrected the model of individualized production. This marked a paradigm shift in the production, distribution and consumption patterns of products being delivered by the smart' technologies. In the world of media, it meant the end of mass media monopolization of the global and local public spheres. The alternative voices became more strident and eye-catching with the arrival of the new media. A large number of media users migrated from the older mass mediated public sphere to the cyberspace, the new public sphere created by the new media. This migration was accompanied by the drift of the advertisers and the marketers to the new public sphere, granting it the legitimacy that it required in the attention economy of the new millennium. Regulatory regimes followed which raised their own controversies.Trade Review"An intersting attempt to assess the changes which have impacted both media and society in fundamental ways in a number of local, national and media and global communities. It invites fascinating observations on media in transition, medi and the knowledge society, media and development, media and the negotiation of identity and the quest for truth. " Jan Servaes UNESCO chair of communication for sustainable social changes 9CSSC, University of Massachusetts, USA

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe present book has been conceptualized and designed as a text which looks into the theories and practices of mass media communication. The present book has been conceptualized and designed as a text which looks into the theories and practices of mass media communication.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe book explores theories and practices of mass media communication, addressing changes due to emerging technologies. Author B.K. Ahuja, an expert in journalism and mass communication, provides comprehensive insights on the field's evolution, impact, and regulation.

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe book contains a CD-ROM with movie clip examples related to the articles. This publication meets the need for a fresh look at the narrative, technique, and industrial practices of media production and reception. The authors employ myriad analytical techniques, focusing on semiotics, auteur style, and historical and political economic analysis to examine the dynamic interplay of popular media. How does translation impact reception? What is the role of online communities in repurposing texts? How do iconic figures cross media? What happens when classics are adapted for specific target markets? With particular attention to the evolving role of audiences, Open Windows evokes an emerging mediascape in which novels, comics, television, music, video games and other media are continuously repurposed and recirculated. Nicholas and Christensen have collected a series of cogent essays from international authors, each tightly focused on a particular aspect of remediation or adaptation. The result is an informed cross-section of analysis that will provoke discussion among students of contemporary cultural and media studies.

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn India, the English-language media is considered the national media', while vernacular media remains regional . However, from the 1980s onwards, demographic changes and growth in literacy in the Hindi heartland broadened the market for Hindi newspapers.

Read more less

Book Synopsis

Read more less

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less

Book SynopsisContributers from image and sound studies explore the history and the future of moving-image media across a range of formats including blockbuster films, video games, music videos, social media, experimental film, documentaries, video art, pornography, theater, and electronic music.Trade Review"This is an assemblage of monumentally impressive scholarly thought on timely issues and will undoubtedly stand up to repeated readings, analysis, and dialogue."--Association for Recorded Sound Collections JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction: ; 1. Carol Vernallis and Amy Herzog ; Cinema in the Realm of the Digital: Foundational Approaches ; 2. Thomas Elsaesser, Digital Cinema: Convergence or Contradiction? ; 3. Jean-Pierre Geuens, Angels of Light ; 4. William Whittington, Lost in Sensation-Reevaluating the Role of Cinematic Sound in the Digital Age ; Dialogue: Screens and Spaces ; 5. Sean Cubitt, Large Screens, Third Screens, Virtuality and Innovation" ; 6. Will Straw, Public Screens and Urban Life" ; Glitches, Noise, and Interruption: Materiality and Digital Media ; 7. Laura U. Marks, A Noisy Brush with the Infinite: Noise in Enfolding-Unfolding Aesthetics" ; 8. Lisa Coulthard, Dirty Sound: Haptic Noise in New Extremism" ; 9. Caetlin Benson-Allott, "Going Gaga for Glitch: Digital Failure @nd Feminist Spectacle in Twenty-F1rst Century Music Video" ; 10. Joanna Demers, "Discursive Accents in Some Recent Digital Media Works" ; 11. Melissa Ragona, "Doping the Voice" ; Uncanny Spaces and Acousmatic Voices ; 12. William Cheng, "Monstrous Noise: Silent Hill and the Aesthetic Economies of Fear" ; 13. Amy Herzog, "'Charm the Air to Give a Sound': The Uncanny Soundscape of Punchdrunk's Sleep No More>" ; 14. George Toles, "A Gash in the Portrait: Martin Arnold's Deanimated" ; 15. Warren Buckland, "The Acousmatic Voice and Metaleptic Narration in Inland Empire" ; Dialogue: Visualization and Sonification ; 16. Lev Manovich, "Visualization Methods for Media Studies" ; 17. Jake Smith, "Explorations in Cultureson" ; Virtual Worlds, Paranoid Structures, and States of War ; 18. Dale Chapman, "Music and the State of Exception in Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men" ; 19. Matthew Sumera, "Understanding the Pleasures of War's Audiovision" ; 20. James Buhler and Alex Newton, "Outside the Law of Action: Music and Sound in the Bourne Trilogy" ; 21. Eleftheria Thanouli, "Debating the Digital: Film and Reality in Barry Levinson's Wag the Dog" ; 22. Theo Cateforis, "Between Artifice and Authenticity: Music and Media in Wag the Dog" ; Blockbusters! Franchises, Remakes, and Intertextual Practices ; 23. Jessica Aldred, "'I Am Beowulf! Now, It's Your Turn': Playing With (And As) the Digital Convergence Character" ; 24. Carol Donelan and Ron Rodman, "Lion and Lambs: Industry-Audience Negotiations in the Twilight Saga Franchise" ; 25. Aylish Wood, "Sonic Times in Watchmen and Inception" ; 26. Miguel Mera, "Inglo(u)rious Basterdization? Tarantino and the War Movie Mashup" ; Dialogue: De-Coding Source Code ; 27. Garrett Stewart, "Sound Thinking: Looped Time, Duped Track" ; 28. Sean Cubitt, "Source Code: Eco-Criticism and Subjectivity" ; 29. James Buhler, "Notes to Source Code's Soundtrack" ; Rethinking Audiovisual Embodiment ; 30. Kiri Miller, "Virtual and Visceral Experience in Music-Oriented Videogames" ; 31. David McCarthy and Maria Zuazu, "A Gaga-World Pageant: Channeling Difference and the Performance of Networked Power" ; 32. Paul Morris and Susanna Paasonen, "Coming to Mind: Pornography and the Mediation of Intensity" ; Sounds and Images of the New Digital Documentary ; 33. John Belton, "The World in the Palm of Your Hand: Agnes Varda, Trinh T. Minh-ha, and the Digital Documentary" ; 34. Selmin Kara, "The Sonic Summons: Meditations on Nature and Anempathetic Sound in Digital Documentaries" ; 35. Jennifer Peterson, "Workers Leaving the Factory: Witnessing Industry in the Digital Age" ; Modes of Composition: Digital Convergence and Sound Production ; 36. Eric Lyon, "The Absent Image in Electronic Music" ; 37. Jann Pasler, "Hugues Dufourt's Cinematic Dynamism: Space, Timbre, and Time in L'Afrique d'apres Tiepolo" ; 38. Ron Sadoff, "Scoring for Film and Video Games: Collaborative Practices and Digital Post-Production" ; 39. Nicola Dibben, "Visualising the App Album with Bjork's Biophilia" ; Digital Aesthetics Across Platform and Genre ; 40. Carol Vernallis, "Accelerated Aesthetics: a New Lexicon of Time, Space and Rhythm" ; 41. Jay Beck, "Acoustic Auteurs and Transnational Cinema" ; 42. Allan Cameron, "Instrumental Visions: Electronica, Music Video, and the Environmental Interface" ; Index

Read more less

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less

Book SynopsisHow did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people--many of them affluent and college educated--to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s. Following the lead of papers like the Los Angeles Free Press, the East Village Other, and the Berkeley Barb, young people across the country launched hundreds of mimeographed pamphlets and flyers, small press magazines, and underground newspapers. New and cheap printing technologies had democratized the publishing process, and by the decade''s end the combined circulation of underground papers stretched into the millions. Though not technically illegal, these papers were often genuinely subversive, and many who produced and sold them--on street-corners, at poetry readings, gallery openings, and coffeehouses--became taTrade Review... this is a work of serious scholarship ... * Roz Kaveney, Times Literary Supplement *Smoking Typewriters is an impressively researched history of the emergence of the underground press in the 1960s. ... a work with remarkable contemporary resonance * Aurelie Basha i Novosejt, Journal of Contemporary History *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. "Our Founder, the Mimeograph Machine": Print Culture in Students for a Democratic Society 2. "A Hundred Blooming Papers": Culture and Community in the 1960s Underground Press 3. "Electrical Bananas": The Underground Press and the Great Banana Hoax 4. "All the Protest Fit to Print": The Rise of Liberation News Service 5. "Either We Have Freedom of the Press or We Don't Have Freedom of the Press": The War against Underground Newspapers 6. "Questioning Who Decides": Participatory Democracy in the Underground Press 7. "From Underground to Everywhere": Alternative Media Trends Since the Sixties Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisYou will never look at your cell phone, TV, or computer the same way after reading this book. Maxwell and Miller not only reveal the dirty secrets that hide inside our beloved electronics; they also take apart the myths that have pushed these gadgets to the center of our lives. With an astounding array of economic, environmental and historical facts, Greening the Media debunks the idea that information and communication technologies (ITC) are clean and ecologically benign. In this compassionate and sharply argued book, the authors show how the physical reality of making, consuming, and discarding them is rife with toxic ingredients, poisonous working conditions, and hazardous waste. But all is not lost. As the title suggests, Maxwell and Miller dwell critically on these environmental problems in order to think creatively about ways to solve them. They enlist a range of potential allies in this effort to foster greener media-from green consumers to green citizens, with stops along the wTrade ReviewAs a brief, well-referenced work that pulls tohether many threads into one coherent picture, it is an excellent addition to any collection. * P.L. Kantor, CHOICE *An impressive example of ecologically-oriented interdisciplinary research, Greening the Media provides an important and necessary contribution to the communication and media studies fields ... [Maxwell and Miller's] work should therefore become required reading for scholars of media technology, environmental communication, and global economic interaction, among other domains. * Garrett M. Broad, International Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. CONSUMERS; 2. WORDS; 3. SCREENS; 4. WORKERS; 5. BUREAUCRATS; 6. CITIZENS; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Read more less

Book SynopsisOn September 2, 1945, Ho Chi Minh read out the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence over a makeshift wired loudspeaker system to thousands of listeners in Hanoi. Five days later, Ho''s Viet Minh forces set up a clandestine radio station using equipment brought to Southeast Asia by colonial traders. The revolutionaries garnered support for their coalition on air by interspersing political narratives with red music (nh?c d?). Voice of Vietnam Radio (VOV) grew from these communist and colonial foundations to become one of the largest producers of music in contemporary Vietnam. In this first comprehensive English-language study on the history of radio music in mainland Southeast Asia, Lonán Ó Briain examines the broadcast voices that reconfigured Vietnam''s cultural, social, and political landscape over a century. Ó Briain draws on a year of ethnographic fieldwork at the VOV studios (2016-17), interviews with radio employees and listeners, historical recordings and broadcasts, and archiTrade ReviewThe author's successful integration of storytelling and scholarly research makes this an invaluable contribution to scholarship on Vietnam and Southeast Asia in general. * CHOICE *A fascinating account of the relationship between music and radio in Vietnam from colonial times, through the civil war and up to the present day. * David Harris, Communication, journal of BDXC *This book is well written and will be of interest to those who want to learn morre about radio in other countries. * David Harris, Radio User *Voices of Vietnam is a significant contribution to Southeast Asian and Vietnamese studies and ethnomusicology, as well as the bourgeoning field of radio studies. * Ethnomusicology Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction: On Radio, Red Music, and Revolution Defining Red Music A Continuous Revolution Radio and Voice Social History of Sound Reproduction Ethnographic and Archival Research Structure of the Book Note on Language and Music Chapter 1: Sound, Technology, and Culture in French Indochina Cultural Colonialism in French Indochina Trading Instruments, Scores, and Recordings The Gramophone as a Lifestyle Choice Radio as a Technology of the Future Public Radio in French Indochina The Radio Club of Northern Indochina Instability under Japanese Occupation Local Clubs with Global Perspectives Chapter 2: Battle of the Airwaves during the First Indochina War Producing the Declaration of Independence Viet Minh Clandestine Radio in the Mountains Making Music for the Masses Cosmopolitan Styles on Radio Hanoi Inventing Traditions for the Vietnamese Forgotten Musicians of the Vi?t Nh?c Ensemble Viet Minh Radio becomes the Official Voice of Vietnam Chapter 3: Songs of the Golden Age in the Democratic Republic Radio Infrastructure in the DRV Recording, Broadcasting, and Receiving Signals VOV Directives and Programming Traditions Iconic Voices, Musicians, and Singers Local and International Tours Reification of Gender Roles Men as Administrators and Composers Women as Mothers and Martyrs Children as Nephews and Nieces Listening and Responding in the South Music for the Liberation of Saigon, April 30, 1975 Sonic Reterritorialization of the Socialist State Chapter 4: National Radio in the Reform Era Post-War Unification of the Musical Media Challenges and Opportunities in the Reform Era VOV3: A Place for Music Programming the Minorities on Air Curating the Past: The VOV Sound Centre and its Archives History of the VOV Soun d Centre Engaging with the Archives Forecasting the Future: Listener-Centred Productions Surveying the Musical Preferences of Audiences Responding to Audience Demand Revolutionizing the Medium, Regurgitating the Message Chapter 5: Studio Production in Contemporary Vietnam The Politics of Intangible Cultural Heritage Representing the Nation with Traditional Music In the Rehearsal Hall, July 12, 2016 In the Recording Studio, July 15, 2016 Redefining the Nation with New Music In the Rehearsal Hall, July 13, 2016 In the Recording Studio, July 14, 2016 Post-Production and Dissemination Reproducing the Homeland in the Late-Reform Era Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Past, Hope for the Future Notes Bibliography Interviews Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisThese essays, by film scholars and philosophers, address the nature of cinematic representation, notions of authorship and intentionality in our understanding and appreciation of films, ideology, aesthetics and the nature and place of emotion in film spectatorship.Trade ReviewThe contributions are all of a high standard. Problems are clearly defined, concepts clarified, fine distinctions drawn, objections considered, and supporting evidence purveyed. In their documentation, scrupulous attention to opposing arguments, integrity, and clarity of reasoning, the contributions are models of professional academic philosophy ... The many virtues of the analytical tradition are manifest in chapter after chapter ... This anthology merits close perusal by anyone interested in genuine film theory. * Trevor Whittock, Brit Jrnl of Aesthetics, Vol 39, no 3, 1999 *Admirably edited by Allen and Smith, who contribute an excellent introductory chapter summing up the argument against the continentals ... * W. A. Vincent, Michigan State University, CHOICE sept 98, vol 36, no 2 *Table of ContentsPART 1 WHAT IS CINEMATIC REPRESENTATION ; PART 2 MEANING, AUTHORSHIP, AND INTENTION ; PART 3 IDEOLOGY AND ETHICS ; PART 4 AESTHETICS ; PART 5 EMOTIONAL RESPONSE

Read more less

Book SynopsisDigital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies, subjectivities, and aesthetics, but this book provides an alternative genealogy. Exemplary cases show electronic literature looking back to modernism for inspiration and source material (in content, form, and ideology) through which to critique contemporary culture. In so doing, this literature renews and reframes, rather than rejects, a literary tradition that it also reconfigures to center around media. To support her argument, Pressman pairs modernist works by Pound, Joyce, and Bob Brown, with major digital works like William Poundstone''s Project for the Tachistoscope: [Bottomless Pit] (2005), Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries''s Dakota, and Judd Morrissey''s The Jew''s Daughter. With each pairing, she demonstrates how the modernist moveTrade ReviewDigital Modernisms not only exposes the self-consciousness of media on both twentieth-century and digital modernist texts, but demonstrates how close study of electronic literature can provide a framework for those seeking to reflect on older "reading technologies". * Stephanie Boland, Times Literary Supplement *Jessica Pressman's Digital Modernism: Making It New in New Media is an impressive accomplishment. * Emily Christina Murphy, SHARP News *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; Chapter 1 - Close Reading: Marshall McLuhan, From Modernism to Media Studies ; Chapter 2 - Reading Machines: Machine Poetry and Excavatory Reading in William Poundstone's Electronic Literature and Bob Brown's Readies ; Chapter 3 - Speed Reading: Super-Position and Simultaneity in Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries's Dakota and Ezra Pound's Cantos ; Chapter 4 - Reading the Database: Narrative, Database, and Stream of Consciousness ; Chapter 5 - Reading Code: The Hallucination of Universal Language from Modernism to Cyberspace ; Coda - Rereading: Digital Modernism in Print, Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions

Read more less

Book SynopsisDig argues that in hip culture it is sound itself, and the faculty of hearing, that is the privileged part of the sensory experience. Through a string of lucid and illuminating examples, author Phil Ford shows why and how music became a central facet of hipness and the counterculture.Trade ReviewWhat Dig offers to scholars of U.S. music is its indispensable modeling of a nimble, oblique, and resonant approach to cultural critique. Fords work reminds us of the galvanizing interchange that always tacitly binds music to ideas: it reads the intellectual discourse of an era as something with the properties of music, something mobile, volatile, and alive. For this reason alone, Fords Dig promises to become a canonical entry in the field of early twenty-first century musicology. * Dale Chapman, Journal of the Society for American Music *[Ford's] conclusions on the Beats, popular music in American culture and the ever-continuing onrush of (blindfold consuming) square culture, nemesis of those who âdigâ things, are unquestionably worth reading. * Dr. A. Ebert, Jive Talk *Table of ContentsTable of Contents ; Introduction: Dig ; Chapter 1: Koan (What Is Hip?) ; 1. What is Hip? ; 2. The Suzuki Rhythm Boys ; 3. The Devil's Staircase ; 4. The Black Spot ; Chapter 2: Somewhere/Nowhere ; 1. Precambrian ; 2. Game Ideology ; 3. 1948: Smart Goes Crazy ; 4. Miles and Monk ; 5. Somewhere/Nowhere ; Chapter 3: Sound Become Holy (The Beats) ; 1. Sound Become Holy ; 2. The Sadness of It All ; 3. Digging What They Dig ; 4. Astounding and Prophetic ; 5. Stenciled off the Real ; Chapter 4: Hip Sensibility in an Age of Mass Counterculture ; 1. Right On, Mr. Horowitz ; 2. The Square ; 3. Asymmetrical Consciousness ; 4. Elitism ; 5. Mass Culture Critique ; 6. The Decline of Midcentury Modernism and the Birth of Postmodernism ; 7. Sound Museum ; Chapter 5: Mailer's Sound ; 1. The Sound is the Thing, Man ; 2. Abstraction ; 3. Whiteness ; 4. Mailer's Sound ; 5. Enantiodromia ; Chapter 6: "Let's Say That We're New, Every Minute" (John Benson Brooks) ; 1. Off-Minor ; 2. Music of the Isms ; 3. DJology ; 4. Cipher ; 5. Magical Hermeneutics ; 6. Technologies of Experience ; 7. Practice

Read more less

a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.

Read more less

Book SynopsisThis is the first study of mass media in Germany from a social and cultural-historical perspective. Beyond the conventional focus on organizational structures or aesthetic content, it investigates the impact the media has on German society under varying political systems, and how the media is shaped by wider social, political and cultural context.Trade Review'This book is a valuable corrective to commonly-expressed assumptions about how 'the media works', and historians of modern Germany will ignore its conclusions at their peril.' Josie McLellan, German History '...[A] well designed collection of commissioned essays...this volume can claim to offer a concise while diverse panorama of both the history of mass media in Germany and its actual media historiography.' - Andreas Fickers, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 'In their introduction, the editors classify their volume as a contribution to the 'cultural expansion of social history'. What their volume does, however, is more than that. For it also brings politics back into social and cultural history by demonstrating that, in an era of democratization and consumption, the spheres of politics on the one hand, and culture, entertainment and leisure on the other, could not be kept as clearly separated from each other as before.' - Dominik Geppert, Journal of Contemporary HistoryTable of ContentsMass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany: An Introduction; K.C.Fuhrer & C.Ross PART 1: RECORDED MUSIC AND BROADCASTING Entertainment, Technology, and Tradition: The Rise of Recorded Music from the Empire to the Third Reich; C.Ross 'Underground': Counter-Culture and the Record Industry in the 1960s; D.Siegfried The Invention of a Listening Public: Radio and its Audiences; K.Lacey Radio Programming, Ideology, and Cultural Change: Fascism, Communism and Liberal Democracy, 1920s-50s; K.Dussel PART 2: FILM AND TELEVISION Two-fold Admiration: American Movies as Popular Entertainment and Artistic Model in Nazi Germany, 1933 - 1939; K.C.Fuhrer Looking West: The Cold War and the Making of Two German Cinemas; T.Lindenberger Television and Social Transformation in the Federal Republic of Germany; K.Hickethier Split Screens? Television in East Germany, 1952-89; H.Gumbert Technical Innovation, Social Participation, Societal Self-Reflection: Televised Sports in (West) German Society; J.Keilbach & M.Stauff PART 3: THE PRINT MEDIA Industries of Sensationalism: German Tabloids in Weimar Berlin; B.Fulda Reading, Advertising, and Consumer Culture in the Weimar Period; G.Reuveni Living Pictures: Photojournalism in Germany, 1900-1930s; H.Knoch 'Trash and Smut': Germany's Culture Wars against Pulp Fiction; P.Major

Read more less

Book SynopsisIn this book, pre-eminent semiotician Arthur Asa Berger decodes the meanings of common objects of consumption and their perceived 'sacredness' in consumerist cultures. Using semiotic theory, consumer culture is dissected in new and fascinating ways.Trade Review"This seductively simple yet erudite introduction to semiotics examines the psychological, religious, and cultural roots of consumer culture and the objects individuals buy and brand themselves with...Rich food for thought and intellectual engagement." - CHOICE "Books with true insight into consumer motivations are exceedingly rare. Arthur Berger's The Objects of Affection is one such book. From neckties to shampoo, he outlines with great precision the associations that drive desire across a broad swathe of product categories. Even more fundamentally, he weaves in the importance of cultural truths, evolving yet enduring insights into an individual's relationship with his society, that too many marketers ignore in their quest for global mass appeal. Berger's book, erudite and witty, is a rallying cry to embrace consumers' deeper motivations as the key to enduring profit and resonance in consumers' lives." - Tom Doctoroff, Greater China CEO for JWT and author of Billions: Selling to the NewChinese Consumer "Berger writes with wit . . . his account of semiotics and consumer culture is clear, concise, and enjoyable." - Eileen Meehan, Professor of Radio and Television Studies, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale "Berger s scholarly yet impish wit shines through in this brilliant adventure into the exotica of the everyday, a book brimming with astonishing insights into the imaginary souls of the stuff around us. Watch out for that innocent-looking toaster over there - he may be signifying something!" - Greg Rowland, founder of Greg Rowland SemioticsTable of ContentsPART I: SEMIOTIC THEORY Theories of Consumer Cultures Marketing Theory and Semiotics PART II: SEMIOTIC APPLICATIONS Brands and Identity: We are our Brands The Objects of our Affection: Selected Case Studies Appendix: Learning Games and Activities

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe news media has become a key arena for staging environmental conflicts. Through a range of illuminating examples ranging from climate change to oil spills, Media, Environment and the Network Society provides a timely and far-reaching analysis of the media politics of contemporary environmental debates.Trade Review'Media, Environment and the Network Society is a much-needed rethinking by one of the field's leading scholars of many of our assumptions about media and environmental activism. Anderson's conceptually-smart analysis takes us well beyond activists' quest for access or visibility to the rapidly changing and complex terrain of global media politics including digital media in a networked world.' - Robert Cox, Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 'A skilful guide through the rapidly-changing media landscape in which environment communication now takes place and through the new scholarship that has accompanied it. Anderson writes with the clarity of a good journalist and the rigour of a good academic.' - James Painter, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, UK 'Anderson expertly navigates the complex terrain of media, environment, politics and power. As one of the founders of this academic field, she provides a nuanced and rich account of how environmental issues are constructed and contested across a range of media platforms and social actors, including NGOs, businesses, citizens and celebrities. In placing emphasis on the power dynamics of online and offline media and activism in particular, Anderson lends us critical insight into the contemporary formations of the mediatised politics of the environment.' - Julie Doyle, Media and Communication Studies, University of Brighton, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Environmental Risks, Protest and the Network Society 3. News Agendas, Framing Contests and Power 4. The Climate Change Controversy 5. Oils Spills and Crisis Communication 6. Emerging Technologies 7. Future Directions Bibliography

Read more less

Book SynopsisGRAHAM MEIKLE is Senior Lecturer in Communications, Media & Culture at the University of Stirling, UK. He is the author ofInterpreting News (2008) and Future Active: Media activism and the Internet (2003) and the co-editor of News Online: Transformations & Continuities(2010).SHERMAN YOUNG is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies and the Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of The Book is Dead, Long Live the Book (2007).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Content, Computing, Communications Convergent Media Industries From Broadcast to Social Media Never Ending Stories Creative Audiences Making the Invisible Visible Time, Space and Convergent Media Regulation, Policy and Convergent Media Conclusion References.

Read more less

Book SynopsisNews media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war, experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it''s often said, sells. But what does it take to sell a war, and to what extent can news media be viewed as disinterested reporters of truth?Lively and highly readable, this book explores how wars have been reported, interpreted and perpetuated from the dawn of the media age to the present digital era. Spanning a broad geographical and historical canvas, Susan L. Carruthers provides a compelling analysis of the forces that shape the production of news and images of war from state censorship to more subtle forms of military manipulation and popular pressure. This fully revised second edition has been updated to cover modern-day conflict in the post 9/11 epoch, including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.Rich in historical detail, The Media at War also provides sharp insights into contemporary experience, prompting critical reflectioTrade Review'With a fine appreciation of the breadth of her subject, Susan Carruthers has delivered a valuable assessment of the complex synergy between media and conflict. Well written and thoughtful, The Media at War is an essential contribution to the literature of this important field.' - Philip Seib, University of Southern California, USA 'Displaying an outstanding command of the area, Susan L. Carruthers provides a well-written and cogently-argued introduction to the terrain between media, popular imagination and war.' - Steven Livingston, George Washington University, USA 'Studded with brilliant insight, Susan Carruthers draws on a wide range of disciplines to produce a carefully crafted analysis of the relationship between media and war. The result is a true tour de force that is guaranteed to inspire the reader.' - David Welch, University of Kent, UK Reviews of the first edition: 'Carruthers has produced an ambitious and accomplished study that will be of obvious interest across a range of academic disciplines but a particularly welcome addition to the growing literature on the subject of war and the media.' - Greg McLaughlin, Ethnicity and Cultural Politics 'an excellent introduction to the study of the media and war. The circular format the author adopts makes the book intriguingly readable. The text is well documented and balanced in its presentation of existing scholarship in this field.' - Elizabeth Stanley-Mitchell, Millennium '...an interesting and pleasant lecture for those interested in how mass media affects and models inter-ethnic relations in welfare times, while constructing powerful stereotypical images based on ethnic, cultural or religious differences.' - Despina Dumitrica, The Ethnic Conflict 'Susan Carruthers...has done an excellent job of analysing journalistic and entertainment media as integral elements of the war system...Citing an array of primarily UK and US sources...the author provides both historical context and a realistic projection of what lies ahead.' - Philip Seib, News and MythTable of ContentsIntroduction Mobilization: The Media Before War Total War Television Wars: Vietnam and After Other People's Wars: Interventions in Real-Time Wars on Terror Warin the Digital Age: Afghanistan and Iraq Conclusion: After War, More War.

Read more less

Book SynopsisPhillip McIntyre presents the latest scholarly research into creativity and creative practice. The book provides insights to media practitioners and policy professionals, looking at television, radio, film, journalism, photography, popular music and new media in relation to psychology, sociology and cultural studies.Trade Review'This is a pioneering and thorough examination of creativity and cultural production. It brings together a vast array of knowledge, critical analysis and insight to the field of creativity and cultural studies. It will be essential reading for anyone involved in popular music and media practices in journalism, television and photography, including academia, industry, researchers and policy makers and debaters. This book is appropriate for use and essential reading on university undergraduate and postgraduate media courses, as well as those who study and practice the different forms of creativity in the larger community. It will not ask you to think only positively about change, but will ask you to think anew about our experiential and conceptual understanding of creativity. It deserves to be widely read.' - Pamela Burnard, University of Cambridge, UK 'Drawing from the experiences of practitioners, Phillip McIntyre interrogates the varied disputes about creativity, and argues for a shift away from person-centred approaches to theorizing creative practice. This bold and challenging book de-romanticises the artist, proposing that understanding creativity should entail studying the operations of media systems, rather than the talented individuals so often portrayed as at odds with such systems.' - Keith Negus, Glodsmiths, University of London, UK 'This scholarly book is innovative and absolutely necessary to further our understanding of contemporary media practices. McIntyre aligns with the contemporary conception of creativity as a socially contextualized practice, rather than a personality type or a moment of insight. He develops a comprehensive overview of these contemporary frameworks, and then uses them to analyze contemporary media practices in radio, journalism, television, film, photography, and popular music. This is a valuable book for scholars of media production, and for scholars interested in creativity in general.' - Keith Sawyer, Associate Professor at Washington University, USA, and author of Explaining Creativity and Group GeniusTable of ContentsPART I: THEORIES ABOUT CREATIVITY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION Introductory Perspectives on Creativity The Creator as Genius Bio-Psychological Perspectives Creativity and The Social The Cultural View Reconceptualising Creativity PART II: ISSUES FOR MEDIA PRACTICE Agency and Structure: The Case of Radio Journalism: Structures and Motivation Television: Form, Format and Being Formulaic Film: Auteur Theory, Collaboration, Systems Photography: Art, Craft and Their Symbiosis Popular Music: Creativity and Authenticity The Digital Revolution: Copyright and Creativity Refocusing Methods for Creative Work Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisList of Figures and Sources Preface & Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION: BERLIN AND THE BORDERED CONDITION The Berlin Paradigm Berlin's Frontier City Legacy Border Lands in the New Europe PART II: AFTERLIVES OF THE WALL: REFLECTIONS AND DEFLECTIONS Agency at the Wall Post-Wall Resurrections Alternative Border Zones in Berlin PART III: GERMAN GEOMANCY: POWER AND PLANNING IN BERLIN World City Planning in Weimar Berlin Nazi (Ger)Mania Recentering Postwar and Post-Wall Berlin PART IV: HOLOCAUST DIVIDES: MEMORIAL ARCHITECTURE IN BERLIN Countermonument and Catastrophe Eisenman's Cement Graveyard Siting the Holocaust in Libeskind's Jewish Museum PART V: REBRANDING BERLIN: GLOBAL CITY STRATEGIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Berlin Borders New Global City Orders Las Vegas on the Spree: The Americanization of the New Berlin Building for Real in Virtual Berlin Selected Bibliography IndexTrade Review'Berlin is not merely a failed boomtown, but also, as Janet Ward shows, the exemplary postmodern place where spectacular projects have failed to erase a painful history. There has been so much written on this fascinating city, and Janet Ward has read it all so you don't have to. She transforms the story of post-Wall Berlin into an extended meditation on the meaning of urban life in our media age. Her fluent and intelligent analysis of architecture, memorials, and urban marketing gives us a cautiously optimistic vision for the much-maligned German capital. This book is an intellectual feast for anyone interested in Berlin, global cities, or the search for identity in a virtual world.' - Brian Ladd, author of The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape 'With theoretical sophistication and a keen eye for detail, Janet Ward deftly guides readers through Berlin's endlessly fascinating spaces, illuminating their origins and assessing their significance with admirable thoroughness. Post-Wall Berlin is a learned and impressive work that does much to clarify the liminality at the core of Berlin's identity." - Gavriel D. Rosenfeld, author of Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich 'Post-Wall Berlin is imaginative, provocative, and thoroughly engaging. Based on extensive knowledge of the scholarship and theory in multiple fields including urban and planning history, architecture, cultural and visual studies, and fiction Ward elucidates more than a century of efforts to define and redefine Berlin's identity. The Wall, and the voids it left, forms but one part of this story.' - Jeffry M. Diefendorf, author of In the Wake of War: The Reconstruction of German Cities after World War II 'The author shows herself to be well informed and always up to date with the most recent, even daily, developments in the debate. The book could thus well be read as a critical travel guide to the New Berlin.' - German Historical Institute BulletinTable of ContentsList of Figures and Sources Preface & Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION: BERLIN AND THE BORDERED CONDITION The Berlin Paradigm Berlin's Frontier City Legacy Border Lands in the New Europe PART II: AFTERLIVES OF THE WALL: REFLECTIONS AND DEFLECTIONS Agency at the Wall Post-Wall Resurrections Alternative Border Zones in Berlin PART III: GERMAN GEOMANCY: POWER AND PLANNING IN BERLIN World City Planning in Weimar Berlin Nazi (Ger)Mania Recentering Postwar and Post-Wall Berlin PART IV: HOLOCAUST DIVIDES: MEMORIAL ARCHITECTURE IN BERLIN Countermonument and Catastrophe Eisenman's Cement Graveyard Siting the Holocaust in Libeskind's Jewish Museum PART V: REBRANDING BERLIN: GLOBAL CITY STRATEGIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Berlin Borders New Global City Orders Las Vegas on the Spree: The Americanization of the New Berlin Building for Real in Virtual Berlin Selected Bibliography Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisKatie Ellis is a Senior Research Fellow in Disability, Media and Internet Studies at Curtin University, Australia. She has participated in several feature film and documentary productions in both research and production roles and has mentored people with disabilities interested in film production as part of a Lotterywest funded community initiative for culturally and linguistically diverse youth with disabilities. Her main areas of research focus on disability, cinema and digital and networked media, extending across both issues of representation and active possibilities for social inclusion. Gerard Goggin is Professor of Media and Communications the University of Sydney, Australia. He has had a long-time interest in disability and media, dating back to the early 1990s, when he worked with disability groups and media organizations on new media policy. He has published on a wide range of aspects of disability and media, including the representation of disability in media, celebrity, spoTrade Review'This book really does take a 360 view of media and disability, by merging an analysis of creation, representation, and accessibility with a discussion of how this empowers disabled people to contribute diverse content to popular culture.' - Beth Haller, Professor of Journalism and New Media, Towson University, USATable of Contents1. Introduction: Why Does Disability Matter for Media? 2. Understanding Disability and Media 3. Media's Role in Disability 4. The News on Disability 5. Beyond Disabled Broadcasting. 6. Disability and Media Work 7. Conclusion: Doing Justice to Disability and Media.

Read more less

Book SynopsisA collection of original articles that explore social aspects of the phenomenon of icon. Having experienced the benefits and realized the limitations of so called 'linguistic turn', sociology has recently acknowledged a need to further expand its horizons.Trade Review'Iconic Power is the strongest theoretical statement to yet come out of the 'Strong Program' in Cultural Sociology. Arguably, more than any other trope, including those of ritual and performance, the concept of 'iconicity' promises to break free of the economistic, linguistic and other kinds of reductionisms that plague the cultural sciences. This fine volume contains both theoretical expositions on how pictorial icons do their cultural work, as well as applied analyses of phenomena such as 9/11, images of famines, Woodstock and Bayreuth as 'iconic' events, expensive Australian red wines and the political iconography of Post-Communist Eastern Europe. If cultural sociology is to have a vibrant future and not repeat the mistakes of the past then in Iconic Power: Materiality and Meaning in Social Life practitioners have a handbook on how to approach the distinctive character of the visual and other non-discursive symbols.' - Eduardo de la Fuente, Sociology, Flinders University; author of Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity 'Ranging in its coverage from the events of 9/11 to images of HIV, and from the revolutions of 1989 to cult wines, this book systematically unpacks the tremendous importance of icons in social life. Both a striking contribution to visual sociology, and a powerful manifesto for new directions in cultural sociology, Iconic Power is fascinating reading for everyone interested in the seductive potency of iconography.' - David Inglis, Head of Department, Department of Sociology, University of AberdeenTable of ContentsMateriality and Meaning in Social Life: Toward an Iconic Turn in Cultural Sociology; D.Bartmanski & J.Alexander PART I Representation, Presentation, Presence: Tracing the Homo Pictor; G.Boehm Iconic Power and Performance: the Role of the Critic; J.Alexander PART II Inconspicuous Revolutions of 1989. Culture and Contingency in The Making of Political Icons; D.Bartmanski The Making of Humanitarian Visual Icons. On the 1921-1923 Russian Famine as Foundational Event; F.Kurasawa Seeing Tragedy in the News Images of September 11; W.Bowler The Emergence of Iconic Depth. Secular Icons in a Comparative Perspective; W.Binder PART III Shifting Extremism: On the Political Iconology in Post-socialist Serbia; D.Šuber & S.Karamanic The Visualization of Uncertainty: HIV Statistics in Public Media; V.Rauer How To Make an Iconic Commodity: The Case of Penfolds' Grange Wine; I.Woodward & D.Ellison Becoming Iconic. The Cases of Woodstock and Bayreuth; P.Smith PART IV Body and Image; H.Belting Iconic Difference and Seduction; B.Giesen Iconic Rituals. Towards a Social Theory of Encountering Images; J.Sonnevend Visible Meanings; P.Sztompka Afterword; B.Giesen

Read more less

Book SynopsisOppression by censorship affects the film industry far more frequently than any other mass media. Including essays by leading film historians, the book offers groundbreaking historical research on film censorship in major film production countries and explore such innovative themes as film censorship and authorship, religion, and colonialism.Trade Review"This is an excellent book with a wide-ranging group of essays covering film censorship on a global scale . . . Compelling, revealing, and passionate, this is a book that demands attention. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above." - CHOICE (W. W. Dixon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA) "By shedding light on the different nuances and complexities of film censorship around the world, this collection contributes new insights to the field of cinema studies . . . This is a scholarly but accessible book, likely to attract academics who work on cinema, censorship and transnational culture(s) more generally, but also recommended to undergraduates and other readers interested in the topic." - The Kelvingrove Review "In times like these, when everything seems to be allowed and no taboo is left unexplored, the desire for censorship seems strange. However, the contributions to "Silencing Cinema" make clear that the call for censorship is as old as film history itself, and that censorship is not limited to top-down pressures that led to the banning of certain films or certain subjects (as in Nazi-Germany and Soviet-Russia), or to blocking particular scenes (e.g. nudity and violence in Hollywood). The book indicates that censorship permeates all levels of society: it is in the minds of legislators, filmmakers and viewers, and it influences their actions, their viewing habits and experiences. ( ) The articles in this book give a general and at the same time well-nuanced history of many years of censorship as well as its influence on film production and film distribution in a series of countries. Where necessary, the articles highlight complex film censorship practices as those in the USA, or they introduce a totally unknown history as that of the Nigerian film censorship. (...) In that sense, the editors prove that the book's subtitle "Film Censorship around the World" is completely justified." - Gerwin van der Pol, Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenchappen, 2014, 42 [2]: 208-209Table of ContentsSilencing Cinema: An Introduction; D.Biltereyst & R.Vande Winkel PART I: CENSORSHIP, REGULATION, AND HEGEMONY All the Power of the Law: Governmental Film Censorship in the United States; L.Wittern-Keller American Morality Is Not to Be Trifled With : Content Regulation in Hollywood after 1968; J.Lewis When Cinema Faces Social Values: One Hundred Years of Film Censorship in Canada; P.Véronneau Inquisition Shadows: Politics, Religion, Diplomacy, and Ideology in Mexican Film Censorship; F.M.Peredo-Castro PART II: CONTROL, CONTINUITY, AND CHANGE Film Censorship in Germany: Continuity and Changes through Five Political Systems; M.Loiperdinger Seeing Red: Political Control of Cinema in the Soviet Union; R.Taylor Prohibition, Politics, and Nation Building: A History of Film Censorship in China; Z.Xiao Film Censorship during the Golden Era of Turkish Cinema; D.K.Mutlu PART III: COLONIALISM, LEGACY, AND POLICIES The Censor and the State in Great Britain; J.Petley British Colonial Censorship Regimes: Hong Kong, Straits Settlements, and Shanghai International Settlement, 1916-1941; D.Newman 'We do not certify backwards': Film Censorship in Post-Colonial India; N.Bose Irish Film Censorship: Refusing the Fractured Family of Foreign Films; K.Rockett PART IV: CENSORSHIP MULTIPLICITY, MORAL REGULATION, AND EXPERIENCES Nollywood, Kannywood, and a Decade of Hausa Film Censorship in Nigeria; C.McCain The Legion of Decency and the Movies; G.D.Black Blessed Cinema: State and Catholic Censorship in Post-war Italy; D.T.Gennari Film Censorship in a Liberal Free Market Democracy: Strategies of Film Control and Audience's Experiences of Censorship in Belgium; D.Biltereyst

Read more less

Book SynopsisThe first book that draws together the main current methodological approaches to the study of language and gender. Approaches include Sociolinguistics, Conversation analysis, Corpus linguistics, Critical discourse analysis, Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis, Discursive psychology and Queer theory. Trade Review'Gender and Language Research Methodologies provides researchers with a rare and detailed look into the specialized application of research methods to questions of language and gender.' - Discourse& SocietyTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Current Research Methodologies in Gender and Language Study: Key Issues; J.Sunderland& L.Litosseliti PART 1: SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND ETHNOGRAPHY Sociolinguistic and Ethnographic Approaches to Language and Gender; J.Swann& J.Maybin Reconstructing the Sex Dichotomy in Language and Gender Research: Some Advantages of Using Correlational Sociolinguistics; A.K.Hultgren Negotiating Methodologies: Making Language and Gender Relevant in the Professional Workplace; L.Mullany Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Spontaneous Talk and Ethnographic-Style Interviews: Balancing Perspectives of Researcher and Researched; P.Pichler PART 2: CORPUS LINGUISTICS 'Eligible' Bachelors and 'Frustrated' Spinsters: Corpus Linguistics, Gender and Language; P.Baker Perpetuating Difference? Corpus Linguistics and the Gendering of Reported Dialogue; K.Harrington The English Vocabulary of Girls and Boys: Similarities or Differences? Evidence From a Quantitative Study; R.Jiménez Catalán& J.Ojeda AlbaPART 3: CONVERSATION ANALYSIS Conversation Analysis: Technical Matters for Gender Research; C.Kitzinger Categories, Actions and Sequences: Formulating Gender in Talk-In-Interaction; E.Stokoe PART 4: DISCURSIVE PSYCHOLOGY Discursive Psychology and the Study of Gender: A Contested Space; N.Edley& M.Wetherell Discursive 'Embodied' Identities of 'Half' Girls in Japan: A Multiperspective Approach; L.Kamada PART 5: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Controversial Issues in Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis; R.Wodak CEOs and 'Working Gals': The Textual Representation and Cognitive Conceptualisation of Businesswomen in Different Discourse Communities; V.Koller Harnessing a Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender in Television Fiction; K.Kosetzi PART 6: FEMINIST POST-STRUCTURALIST DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Feminist Post-Structuralist Discourse Analysis - A New Theoretical and Methodological Approach?; J.Baxter Interwoven and Competing Gendered Discourses in a Preschool EFL Lesson; H.Castañeda-Peña PART 7: QUEER THEORY The Contributions of Queer Theory to Gender and Language Research; H.Sauntson Queering Gay Men's English; W.Leap References Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisFrom the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media technologies. In this book leading scholars explore key questions concerning the truth status and broader implications of 'media witnessing'.Trade Review'Why are witnesses to salient socio-political events so important in our age of global media reporting? Testimonies are sometimes the only chance to arrive at more information which would, otherwise, have been swept under the carpet. This excellent book elaborates on, and challenges, the complex and difficult roles of eye witnesses and of the media in truly innovative interdisciplinary ways. Everybody who deals with media in their everyday lives will be able to gain new insights.' - Professor Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University, UK 'This is a most valuable collection of essays. Innovative, engrossing and rewarding, it provides an excellent exploration of media witnessing and is definitely to be recommended.' - European Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Why Media Witnessing? Why Now? PART I: PERSPECTIVES ON MEDIA WITNESSING Witnessing: An Afterword: Torchlight Red on Sweaty Faces; J.D.Peters Telling Presences: Witnessing, Mass Media, and the Imagined Lives of Strangers; P.Frosh Mundane Witness; J.Ellis Witness as a Cultural Form of Communication: Historical Roots, Structural Dynamics and Current Appearances; G.Thomas Archaic Witnessing and Contemporary News Media; M.Blondheim& T.Liebes PART II: PERFORMANCES OF MEDIA WITNESSING Witnessing as a Field; T.Ashuri and A.Pinchevski From Danger to Trauma: Affective Labour and the Journalistic Discourse of Witnessing; C.Rentschler Scientific Witness, Testimony, and Mediation; J.Leach Witnesses or Bystanders: What Models are Appropriate in Understanding the Media Act of Witnessing? Witnessing Trauma on Film; R.Brand Index

Read more less

Book SynopsisMARK BRAKE is Professor of Science Communication in the Department of Health, Sport and Science at the University of Glamorgan, UK. He is recognised as a leading academicin the field and has published many books, including Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science and FutureWorld.EMMA WEITKAMP is a Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the University of the West of England, UK. She also has a background in medical writing and public relations.

Read more less

Book SynopsisMARK BRAKE is Professor of Science Communication in the Department of Health, Sport and Science at the University of Glamorgan, UK. He is recognised as a leading academicin the field and has published many books, including Different Engines: How Science Drives Fiction and Fiction Drives Science and FutureWorld.EMMA WEITKAMP is a Senior Lecturer in Science Communication at the University of the West of England, UK. She also has a background in medical writing and public relations.

Read more less