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  • Tabloid Tales

    Global Debates over Media Standards

    by Colin Sparks, S Elizabeth Bird, Rod Brookes, Andrew Calabrese, Peter Golding, Jostein Gripsrud, Ágnes Gulyás, Daniel C. Hallin0, Kaori Hayashi1, Ulrike Klein2, Myra Macdonald3, Shelley McLachlan4, Mathieu M. Rhoufari5, Dick Rooney6, Klaus Schönbach7, Janice Peck8 ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    Coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky saga followed in a long trail of media exposures of the more personal details of the lives of public figures. Many commentators have seen stories like this, and TV shows like Jerry Springer's, as evidence of a decline in the standards of the mass media. This increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Popular Culture and High Culture

    An Analysis and Evaluation Of Taste

    by Herbert J. Gans ...
    Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the universality of high cultural standards. While conceding that popular and high culture have converged to some extent over the twenty-five years since he ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

    Was $27.99 USD Now $21.99 USD

  • Reading Media Theory

    Thinkers, Approaches and Contexts

    by Brett Mills, David M. Barlow ...
    What does the Frankfurt School have to say about the creative industries? Does the spread of Google prove we now live in an information society? How is Madonna an example of postmodernism? How new is new media? Does the power of Facebook mean we're all media makers now?This groundbreaking volume – part reader, part textbook - helps you to engage thoroughly with some of the major voices that have ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Politics, Society, and the Media, Second Edition

    by Paul Nesbitt-Larking ...
    Politics, Society, and the Media is the first comprehensive political sociology of the media to be published in Canada. Paul Nesbitt-Larking draws upon a range of disciplines, including cultural and media studies, political economy, social theory, and political science to provide an analysis of the relationship between power and representation in Canada.The framework for the book presents a model ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Theories of the Information Society

    by Frank Webster ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Information is regarded as a distinguishing feature of our world. Where once economies were built on industry and conquest, we are now part of a global information economy. Pervasive media, expanding information occupations and the development of the internet convince many that living in an Information Society is the destiny of us all. Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Celebrity and Power

    Fame in Contemporary Culture

    by P. David Marshall ...
    Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Understanding the Media

    by Eoin Devereux ...
    This is a lucid and lively introduction to key concepts and developments in media and media studies. The new edition, with updated case studies and a good range of online reading, is a valuable resource for both students and lecturers.- Chindu Sreedharan, Bournemouth University"Has expanded the possibilities of what a textbook can be. Incisive questions framed through accessible and detailed ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Media and Participation

    A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle

    by Nico Carpentier ...
    Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies ... Read more

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  • Media Studies: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself

    by Joanne Hollows ...
    Written by an academic and researcher with over twenty years' experience in teaching and convening Media Studies courses, Media Studies: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added-value features ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Television Studies: The Key Concepts

    by Ben Calvert, Neil Casey, Bernadette Casey, Liam French, Justin Lewis ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Television Studies: The Key Concepts is the definitive reference guide to an area of rapidly expanding academic interest. Among those aspects of television studies covered in this comprehensive and up-to-date guide are:theoretical perspectives which have shaped the study of television - Marxism; semiology; feminismconcepts which have shaped the study of television - narrative; representation; ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Popular Culture

    A User's Guide

    by Imre Szeman, Susie O'Brien ...
    Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them.Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culturesuitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, ... Read more

    $39.00 USD