Popular Culture in a Globalised India
Presenting India's rich popular cultural traditions, this book includes chapters, which provide insights into various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political diversity of a globalised India.
When and how do communication and history impact each other? How do disciplinary perspectives affect what we know? Through a critical collection of essays written by scholars in the field, this book addresses the engagement of communication and history as it applies to the study…
Spreadable media maps fundamental changes taking place in our contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution and many of us are directly involved in the circulation of content. It contrasts "stickiness"--Aggregating attent…
McQuail's Mass Communication Theory has been the benchmark for studying mass communication theory for more than 25 years. It remains the most authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the field and still offers unmatched coverage of the research literature. The Sixth Editi…
No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply-some would say totally-involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book they explore what it means to be "…
Investigates the writings of Charles Baudelaire in the wider context of the evolution of text- and image-based media, from newspapers to photography and pre-cinematic technologies in 19th-century France
Media is everywhere but is often a poor source of information. Covering print, photography, film, radio, television, and new media, this textbook instructs readers on how to take a critical approach to media and interpret the information overload that is disseminated via mass co…
"This book examines shadow imagery in postwar literature, television, film, photography, and popular culture"--The image of the shadow in midtwentiethcentury America appeared across a variety of genres and media including poetry, pulp fiction, photography, and film. Drawing on a…
In a series of case studies from Asia, Africa, North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the contributors explore relationships between media, power and society in a variety of regional and national contexts, and the effects of globalization. They also conf…