Media, entertainment, information and communication industries

The first book about the Albatross Press, a Penguin precursor that entered into an uneasy relationship with the Nazi regime to keep Anglo-American literature alive under fascism The Albatross Press was, from its beginnings in 1932, a “strange bird”: a cultural outsider to the Third Reich but an economic insider.

From the former chief economist of the FCC, a remarkable history of the U.

Journalism, television, cable, and online media are all evolving rapidly.

The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television’s production and programming in the decades before perestroika In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic.

This book analyzes the economic challenges facing symphony orchestras and contrasts the experience of orchestras in the United States (where there is little direct government support) and abroad (where governments typically provide large direct subsidies).

In this timely book, Rob Frieden points out the many ways the United States has fallen behind other countries in telecommunications and broadband development.

Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution.

For Yale University Press, which celebrates its hundredth birthday in 2008, the century has been an eventful one, punctuated with no few surprises.

This book is the first to focus a bright light on the life and early career of George S.

Joined together in an “economic development marriage,” Walt Disney World and Orlando, Florida, have become the world’s most popular tourist destination.

Rock 'n' roll was born in rural Alabama, 1923, in the form of Sam Phillips, the youngest son of a large family living in a remote colony called the Lovelace Community.

Shelby Scatess thirty-five-year career as a prize-winning journalist and columnist for International News Service, United Press International, the Associated Press, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has taken him to centers of action across this country and to wars and conflicts in many of the worlds danger zones.

Broadening an overly narrow definition of Islamic journalism, Janet Steele examines day-to-day reporting practices of Muslim professionals, from conservative scripturalists to pluralist cosmopolitans, at five exemplary news organizations in Malaysia and Indonesia.

While Western media are shrinking their foreign correspondent networks, Chinese media, for the first time in history, are rapidly expanding worldwide.

'Essential reading for anyone interested in the heady, vulgar, marvellous miasma of British music and culture in the nineties' - Irving Welsh'A true believer in the power of music and more importantly a believer in the people that make music.

How early twentieth-century American policymakers sought to gain control over radiotelegraphy networks in an effort to advance the global position of the United States.

An accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses.

An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of audio files into streamed experience.

A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.

Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist''s right to speak but also a public''s right to hear.

How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.

How big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back.

Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age.

A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.

How the basic concepts of economics—including markets, institutions, and money—can be used to create and analyze economies based on virtual goods.

The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music, television, film, and politics.

How to increase both job satisfaction and enterprise productivity—and make American manufacturing competitive again.

A thoroughly updated, comprehensive, and accessible guide to U.

Experienced economics editors discuss navigating the world of scholarly journals, with details on submission, reviews, acceptance, rejection, and editorial policy.

The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.

How videogames offer a new way to do journalism.

A business history of the software industry from the days of custom programming to the age of mass-market software and video games.

The role of the commercial composer has grown to include a wide range of new responsibilities.

The BBC holds a special place in the world of broadcasting.

The BBC holds a special place in the world of broadcasting.

For nearly fifty years, the Chicago-based Associated Negro Press (ANP) fought racism at home and grew into an international news organization abroad.

In recent years, China 's leaders have taken decisive action to transform information, communications, and technology (ICT) into the nation's next pillar industry.

We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local.

Welcome to a brave new world of capitalism propelled by high tech, guarded by enterprising authority, and carried forward by millions of laborers being robbed of their souls.

Interactive journalism has transformed the newsroom.

A spidery network of mobile online media has supposedly changed people, places, time, and their meanings.

The professional judgment of gatekeepers defined the American news agenda for decades.

The contributors to Signal Traffic investigate how the material artifacts of media infrastructure--transoceanic cables, mobile telephone towers, Internet data centers, and the like--intersect with everyday life.

Contemporary discussion surrounding the role of the internet in society is dominated by words like: internet freedom, surveillance, cybersecurity, Edward Snowden and, most prolifically, cyber war.

Arriving in the U.

Whether it's the rule-defying lifer, the sharp-witted female newshound, or the irascible editor in chief, journalists in popular culture have shaped our views of the press and its role in a free society since mass culture arose over a century ago.

The financial crisis of 2007-08 shook the idea that advanced information and communications technologies (ICTs) as solely a source of economic rejuvenation and uplift, instead introducing the world to the once-unthinkable idea of a technological revolution wrapped inside an economic collapse.

Provocative yet sober, Digital Critical Editions examines how transitioning from print to a digital milieu deeply affects how scholars deal with the work of editing critical texts.

Matt Carlson confronts the promise and perils of unnamed sources in this exhaustive analysis of controversial episodes in American journalism during the George W.