A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The Second Edition of this successful text has been updated and extensively revised to provide students with an engaging introduction to media studies . Practical and accessible, Questioning the Media invites readers to be activ e participants in the process of understanding the importance of the media today. New chapters on media and identity, global media influences, compute r-mediated communication, feminist media theories, popular music and news c... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Globalization is a key area in contemporary media studies. This Reader combines classic work in the field with a series of overview essays written by leading scholars to offer a comprehensive and illuminating overview of this key area in contemporary media studies. View More...
This classic textbook, written by distinguished academics from around the w orld, has now reached its third edition. It provides an invaluable guided t our through key areas: theories of media and society; studies of media orga nization; and studies of media, culture, and ideology. Critical overviews are combined with original case studies. To keep pace with the ra pidly change field, the majority of essays in this third edition are new. T hese include overviews of media and society from the perspectives of class, gender, and ethnicity that plug media studies into new developments in the socia... View More...
This volume illustrates and exemplifies the variety of ways in which the ma ss media have been researched over the past fifty or more years. It provide s extracts from seminal works and relates them to developments in the field as a whole and to later works. The volume identifies the major divisions w ithin the field, including mass society theory, the media effects tradition , political economy, the public sphere, media occupations and professionals , cultural hegemony, feminism, and "new" audience research. View More...
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America's top jury consultant, Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, can literally read a per son like a book. By decoding the hidden messages in appearance, tone of voi ce, facial expression, and personal habit, she has accurately predicted the behavior of jurors, witnesses, lawyers, and judges in some of the most cel ebrated trials of the past two decades. Now in this phenomenal new book, sh e applies the secrets of her extraordinary success to the everyday situatio ns we all face at work, at home, and in relationships. How can you " hear between the lines" to detect a lie? When is intuition th e best guide t... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A multi-faceted exploration of audience research, in which Morley draws on a rich body of empirical work to examine the emergence, development and future of audience research. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. There were two wars going on in Iraqâ??one fought with armies of soldiers, bombs, and fearsome military force. The other was fought alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists, and propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized as an effort to find and disarm WMDsâ??Weapons of Mass Destruction; the other was carried out by even more powerful WMDs, Weapons of Mass Deception.Veteran journalist and media watcher Danny Schechter, a forme... View More...
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The pages are completely free of all marks, highlighting or underlining. Th is is a very tight, clean copy! Written by leading authorities in optical networking, this book explores wi de area wavelength-division multiplexing now that commercial deployment is at hand. After an overview of the enabling technology, the authors focus on methodologies for network analysis, control, design, and protection from a layered multiwavelength network architecture point of view. The book prese nts four architecture categories, in increasing order of complexity: -- Shared channel networks, which use optical ... View More...
