Brings together the main sub-topics of communication studies - text analysis, business communication, mass communication, the media industry and film. Drawing from popular culture examples, this book explains the concepts that guide the study of communication in its various form…
Divided into three sections covering major areas of topical research, this Handbook opens with an introductory essay by the editors to guide students in their approach to the field, followed by a stimulating range of chapters, each written by an internationally renowned scholar.
The era of literary modernism coincided with a dramatic expansion of broadcast media throughout Europe, which challenged avant-garde writers with new modes of writing and provided them with a global audience for their work. Historicizing these developments and drawing on new sou…
How do we rely on media for remembering? In exploring the complex ways that media converge to support our desire to capture, store and retrieve memories, this textbook offers analyses of representations of memorable events, media tools for remembering and forgetting, media techn…
The author argues that liveness is the product of a dynamic interaction between media institutions, technologies and users. In doing so, she challenges earlier conceptions of the notion, which tended to focus on either one of these contributors to its construction. By analyzing …
In this text, Sue Curry Jansen brings a different perspective to contemporary communication inquiry. She engages two questions at the heart of critical politics of communication: what do we know? And how do we know it?
This newly expanded and revised second edition of New Media, Old Media brings together contemporary and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digital culture.
Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impassioned critique of our media-saturated culture. Presenting for the first time in English the work of influential scholars who worked with or were influenced by Bourdieu…
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 -Offe…
Offers a comprehensive overview of global media production and circulation. Using case study material in order to illustrate key debates, this book analyzes media industries, production, content, audiences and policies on an international scale. It is a guide to understanding me…
Focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and…
Focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Listening is central to modern communication, politics and experience, but is commonly overlooked and…
In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively 'mediated' city. Today, more than ever before, the omnipresence of media in every sphere of culture is creating a new urban ontology, saturating, fracturing, and exacerbating the manif…
Reveals the secret story of subliminal influence, showing how an obscure concept from experimental psychology became a mainstream belief about our vulnerability to manipulation in an age of media clutter. Chronicles the enduring popularity of the dubious claims about subliminal …
Reveals the secret story of subliminal influence, showing how an obscure concept from experimental psychology became a mainstream belief about our vulnerability to manipulation in an age of media clutter. Chronicles the enduring popularity of the dubious claims about subliminal …
