Media, entertainment, information and communication industries

China is transforming Africa's information space.

Do you ever feel overwhelmed and powerless after watching the news?

This volume deals with various social-science perspectives on law and legal control pertaining to music in a variety of contexts.

Worlding Tamil Cinema is a simultaneous intervention in the study of world cinema and the cinemas of India.

This textbook provides an overview of the digital information landscape and explains the implications of the technological changes for the information industry, from publishers and broadcasters to the information professionals who manage information in all its forms.

This is the first book to discuss the sustainable development of digital scholarly information in three key aspects: economic, social and environmental sustainability.

Telecommunication has undergone unprecedented change in recent times.

Popular science books, selling in their thousands - even millions - help us appreciate breakthroughs in understanding the natural world, while highlighting the cultural importance of scientific knowledge.

This is a collection of 43 essays about the economics and management of information technology markets.

This edited collection focuses on the production cultures of successful small and medium-sized (SME) film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK, based on a three-year research project, 'Success in the Film and Television Industries' (SiFTI) funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

This edited collection focuses on the production cultures of successful small and medium-sized (SME) film and television companies in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK, based on a three-year research project, 'Success in the Film and Television Industries' (SiFTI) funded by the Norwegian Research Council.

Offering a rare insight into the world of celebrity and media in China and beyond, Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia deconstructs the dynamics of "e;stardom"e; and celebrity endorsement in East Asia, and examines its impact on marketing communications and media.

Offering a rare insight into the world of celebrity and media in China and beyond, Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia deconstructs the dynamics of "e;stardom"e; and celebrity endorsement in East Asia, and examines its impact on marketing communications and media.

The culture wars - intertwining art, culture and politics - have sparked prominent political debates across the globe for many years, but particularly in Europe and America since 2001.

The culture wars - intertwining art, culture and politics - have sparked prominent political debates across the globe for many years, but particularly in Europe and America since 2001.

This volume weaves together ongoing scholarly debates around how to bridge the gap between theory and practice in media and journalism research.

This volume weaves together ongoing scholarly debates around how to bridge the gap between theory and practice in media and journalism research.

Since the late 1990s, when broadcasters began adapting such television shows as Big Brother, Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

At a time when sustainability is on everyone's lips, this volume is one of the first to offer an overview of sustainability and communication issues - including community mobilization, information technologies, gender and social norms, mass media, interpersonal communication and integrated communication approaches - from a development and social change perspective.

The Cinema Makers investigates how cinema spectators in southeastern and central European cities became cinema makers through such practices as squatting in existing cinema spaces, organizing cinema "e;events,"e; writing about film, and making films themselves.

From 1945 to 1950, during the formative years of his career, Stanley Kubrick worked as a photojournalist for Look magazine.

Working at the intersection of religion and ever-shifting political, economic and social environments, Iranian cinema has produced some of the most critically lauded films in the world today.

Money Talks explores the ways the financial concepts of money and capital are understood and talked about by a range of people, from traders to ordinary investors, and how these accounts are framed and represented across a range of media.

Money Talks explores the ways the financial concepts of money and capital are understood and talked about by a range of people, from traders to ordinary investors, and how these accounts are framed and represented across a range of media.

Lure of the Big Screen explores film exhibition and consumption in rural parts of the UK and Australia, where film theatres are often highly valued as spaces around which isolated communities can gather and interact.

Lure of the Big Screen explores film exhibition and consumption in rural parts of the UK and Australia, where film theatres are often highly valued as spaces around which isolated communities can gather and interact.

The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for different markets - with locally focused repackagings of hit reality shows leading the way.

The digital era has posed innumerable challenges to the business and practice of journalism.

The digital era has posed innumerable challenges to the business and practice of journalism.

The past twenty years have seen major changes in the ways that television formats and programming are developed and replicated internationally for different markets - with locally focused repackagings of hit reality shows leading the way.

Set in the offices of a magazine publishers, Meredith Oakes' comedy of fragile values in the media will not restore your faith in human nature, but it is guaranteed to help you get on in publishing without really succeeding.

How To Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook.

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'Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat' Stephen Poole, Guardian'An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about books, writers and their editors' Sunday Times'Enjoyable .

Recently, fake news has become real news, making headlines as its consequences become crushingly obvious in political upsets and global turmoil.

Conspiracy theories are legion.

How to run a low/no budget theatre company or production, without losing either your integrity or your shirt.

What impact did the printing press a new means of communicating the written word have on early modern English lawyers?

What impact did the printing press a new means of communicating the written word have on early modern English lawyers?

This volume addresses the transformative power of tourism social media and offers novel theoretical and methodological approaches to its academic investigation.

Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Catherine Deneuve.

The life and work of Ryszard Kapu?

Break into Travel Writing, Make it Pay the Easy Way.

The Writer's Internet is the essential guide to the World Wide Web for writers and authors.

All need to know about lifestyle writing and how to use your own experiences to start your writing career.

The third edition of International Communication examines the profound changes that have taken place, and are continuing to take place at an astonishing speed, in international media and communication.

The third edition of International Communication examines the profound changes that have taken place, and are continuing to take place at an astonishing speed, in international media and communication.

The Language of Journalism aims to provide an accessible, wide-ranging introductory textbook for a range of students.