"In an information age of youth social movements, Youth Media Matters examines how young people are using new media technologies to tell stories about themselves and their social worlds. They do so through joint efforts in a range of educational settings and media environments, …
Today's consumers have unprecedented choice in terms of the technologies and platforms that access, produce, and distribute media content. The development and overlap of television, the internet, and other media technologies is fragmenting and empowering media audiences more tha…
"This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the complexity and diversity of audience studies in the advent of digital media.-Recognizes and appreciates valuable traditional approaches and identifies how they can be applied to, and evolve with, the changing media world -Off…
Media and the American child
by Scharrer, Erica, Comstock, George A., Comstock, George A.
This new work summarizes the research on all forms of media on children, looking at how much time they spend with media everyday, television programming and its impact on children, how advertising has changed to appeal directly to children and the effects on children and the con…
When and how do communication and history impact each other? How do disciplinary perspectives affect what we know? "Explorations in Communication and History" addresses the link between what we know and how we know it by tracking the intersection of communication and history. As…
"Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes, urban legends, digitally altered photographs, mock news stories, press releases or interoffice memoranda, parodies of songs, poems, political and commer…
Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions come in many forms: jokes, urban legends, digitally altered photographs, mock news stories, press releases or interoffice memoranda, parodies of songs, poems, political and commerc…
Media and the well-being of children and adolescents
Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents brings together many of the field's most important scholars and media professionals to present cutting-edge theory and empirical research on both the benefits and risks to youth development. It examines the role that media pla…
Media and the well-being of children and adolescents
"Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents brings together many of the field's most important scholars and media professionals to present cutting-edge theory and empirical research on both the benefits and risks to youth development. It examines the role that media pl…
"Young people spend a significant amount of time with technology, particularly digital and social media. How do they experience and cope with the many influences of digital media in their lives? What are the main challenges and opportunities they navigate in living online? Youth…
Historical accounts of childhood: subalterns between structures and agency -- Class, caste, and children's life in contemporary India -- Methods and reflections -- Mediating Indian childhoods: texts and producers -- Media rich in India: routine, self-construction, conflicted con…
The Dark Side of Social Media: Psychological, Managerial, and Societal Perspectives examines how social media can negatively affect our lives. The book tackles issues related to social media such as emotional and mental health, shortened attention spans, selective self-presentat…