Author: Pieter J. Fourie
Publisher: Juta Academic
Keywords: media, society, studies, history
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0702176923
ISBN-13: 9780702176920

While examining exactly who owns the media and who produces the media, this text manages to encompass the systematic, critical, and analytical media in all its forms and concludes that the media is one of the most important generators and disseminators of meaning in contemporary society. Investigating the power relationships between the media and politics, culture, economy, society, and above all, democracy, this resource is well-suited for anyone with an interest in the modern role of media in society.

Authors:Jostein Gripsrud, Lennart Weibull,
Publisher: Intellect Ltd
Keywords: media, changing, europe, books, intellect, european, markets, public, spheres, crossroads
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 2010-04-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1841503053
ISBN-13: 9781841503059

Using a sample of European newspapers and their TV listings as a stepping stone, Media, Markets and Public Spheres presents an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. With in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relations between media, and changes in media policies, this book explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society. Media, Markets and Public Spheres will be useful to students in media and communication studies and European studies, as well as for those studying sociology and political sci

Authors:John Footen, Joey Faust,
Publisher: Focal Pre
Keywords: media, professional, systems, focal, technology, series, press, web, enterprise, oriented, soa, bpm, service, services
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2008-03-24
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 0240809777
ISBN-13: 9780240809779

Companies worldwide are rapidly adopting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a design methodology used to connect systems as services, and Business Process Management (BPM), the art of orchestrating these services. Media organizations from news organizations to music and media download services to movie studios are adapting to SOA-style architectures, but have run into roadblocks unique to the media and entertainment industry. These challenges include incorporating real-time data, moving large amounts of data at one time, non-linearity and flexibility for workflow, and unique metrics and data

Author: Erik Barnouw
Publisher: Fordham University Pre
Keywords: media, studies, communications, found, lost
Number of Pages: 179
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0823220990
ISBN-13: 9780823220991

This selection of essays, articles, lectures, and other writings by Erik Barnouw, dean of American media scholars, chronicles "the phenomenon of old media giving way to new, and then being replaced by them, as the ghosts of old media rise in new forms." In Media Lost and Found, the sixteenth century will introduce us to early stirrings of photography, as well as the rise of "black lists," which have a too-familiar ring within our own lifetime. The collection begins with an article on documentary film pioneer Robert Flaherty. Barnouw then moves to a discussion of his Dutch heritage and its role

Authors:Henry Jenkins, David Thorbur,
Publisher: The MIT Pre
Keywords: media, transition, new, democracy
Number of Pages: 397
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0262600633
ISBN-13: 9780262600637

Digital technology is changing our politics. The World Wide Web is already a powerful influence on the public’s access to government documents, the tactics and content of political campaigns, the behavior of voters, the efforts of activists to circulate their messages, and the ways in which topics enter the public discourse. The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse about democracy and cyberspace. Some contributors offer front-line perspectives on the impact of emerging technologies on politics, journalism, and civic experience. What happens, for example, when w

Author:
Publisher: Marquette Books
Keywords: war, media, iraq, entertainment, role, global, news
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2004-03-01
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0922993106
ISBN-13: 9780922993109

Global Media Go to War is the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the role of mass media during the 2003 Iraq War. Its 43 essays, which are written by prominent media scholars and professionals from around the world, are organized into six major sections. Numerous perspectives are presented, but all attest to the social control function that media perform for their nations.

Authors:Kent A. Ono, Vincent Pham,
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: media, minorities, americans, asian
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2008-11-25
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 074564273X
ISBN-13: 9780745642734

Asian Americans and the Media provides a concise, thoughtful, critical and cultural studies analysis of U.S. media representations of Asian Americans. The book also explores ways Asian Americans have resisted, responded to, and conceptualized the terrain of challenge and resistance to those representations, often through their own media productions. In this engaging and accessible book, Ono and Pham summarize key scholarship on Asian American media, as well as lay theoretical groundwork to help students, scholars and other interested readers understand historical and contemporary media represe