Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • For Sociology

    Legacies and Prospects

    Edited by John Eldridge ...
    First published in 2001. For Sociology is not the dogmatic stand of a single discipline against the tide of interdisciplinarity. Rather it is an attempt to explore the nature of sociological argument and the relationship of sociology both to the natural sciences and other social sciences, as well as assessing its role in understanding the complexities of the contemporary world.The essays in the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Economic Torts and Economic Wrongs

    Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
    This book explores contemporary issues in respect of causes of action which operate to protect a plaintiff's economic interests.It examines the question from across the spectrum of private law. Focusing mainly on common law principles, it looks in particular at the treatment of such causes of action in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Singapore as well as other common law jurisdictions. ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Bad News (Routledge Revivals)

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976.The authors undertook an exhaustive monitoring of all television broadcasts over 6 months, from January to June 1975, with ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • More Bad News (Routledge Revivals)

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1980, More Bad News is the Second Volume in the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. It develops the analytic findings and methods of the first volume Bad News through a series of Case Studies of Television News Coverage, and argues that much of what passes as balanced and factual news reporting is produced from a highly partial viewpoint.Focusing on the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Glasgow Media Group Reader, Vol. I

    News Content, Langauge and Visuals

    by John Eldridge ...
    This first volume of clasic articles by the Glasgow University Media Group focuses on issues of news content, language and the role of visual images in news reporting. It also includes an introduction to the Group's work by John Eldridge. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Getting the Message

    News, Truth, and Power

    Edited by John Eldridge ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an ideal introduction to recent work by the Group.Contributors discuss themes such as the relationship between the media and public opinion, the emergence of TV news formats and styles, and the relations between theory and method in media research. Recent work ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Raymond Williams

    Making Connections

    This book provides a critical introduction to the full range of Williams' work - fiction and non-fiction. It assesses the significance of his contribution in understanding culture, politics and society. Fair-minded, accurate and sensitive, the book makes crucial connections between the different aspects of Williams' work and the underlying concern for a democratic polity which informed it. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Five Giants [New Edition]

    A Biography of the Welfare State

    A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEARA LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning history of the British Welfare State –now fully revised and updated for the 21st Century.‘A masterpiece’ Sunday TimesGiant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. Giant Idleness.These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Television

    Technology and Cultural Form

    Series series Routledge Classics
    Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its future prospects, remains remarkably prescient.Williams stresses the importance of technology in shaping the cultural form ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Political Communication

    by Brian McNair ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    At a time of radical shifts in power across the globe, the sixth edition of An Introduction to Political Communication examines the role of the media in the political process. Brian McNair reflects on the role of communication in key events such as the referendum vote for the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union, the rise of nationalist populism in Europe, and the victory of Donald Trump in the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Political Communication

    by Brian McNair ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    An Introduction to Political Communication explores the relationship between politics, the media and democracy in the UK, the USA and other contemporary societies. Brian McNair examines how politicians, trade unions, pressure groups, non-governmental organizations and terrorist organizations make use of the media. Separate chapters look at political media and their effects, the work of political ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

  • Writing for Broadcast Journalists

    by Rick Thompson ...
    Series series Media Skills
    'This is a superb book which combines the rare mixture of high quality information with humour. The style of writing engages the reader from the introduction and the experience and insight of the author occasionally makes it difficult to put down, a rare feature of a textbook. I would unreservedly recommend this book not only to those studying journalism but to students of language and all who use ... Read more

    $54.99 USD