Communication studies

The aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world are investigated in this book.

The National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) Guide to Careers in Journalism is the essential resource to securing a job as a journalist on a newspaper or magazine, on radio and television, or online.

'The book does what it says on the label.

"e;As one of the main scriptwriters of the two internal BBC training sessions which were produced following the Hutton inquiry, I can heartily recommend this book.

'The ultimate book on the creative skills of journalism' - Writing Magazine'Useful and timely.

Media Law is an essential and accessible introduction to the subject that will assist media; journalism and law students understand key concepts and aid their revision.

Picking up on some of the themes developed in his critically acclaimed book Understanding Audiences (SAGE, 2000), this new book on audience research focuses on qualitative methods and will draw upon students' own media experience.

For 33 years Betty Purcell worked behind the scenes as an award-winning producer in RTE Radio and Television, with presenters such as Marian Finucane, John Bowman, Pat Kenny and John Kelly.

This exciting collection of papers represents some of the finest communications research published over the last decade.

This book provides a practical and richly informative introduction to feature writing and the broader context in which features journalists operate.

Boyle's study is essential reading for all students, teachers and researchers of sports journalism.

This book explores the lifecycle of digital games.

There are an increasing number of courses on digital games and gaming, following the rise in the popularity of games themselves.

`This is the most well written book I have read for some time.

`This is a very clear and concise summary of media studies, present and future.

Information and communication technologies are said to be transforming urban life dramatically and bringing about rapid economic and cultural globalization.

Combining institutional textual and audience analysis, this book introduces students to the factors which have shaped television's development in contemporary Europe, and invites them to assess the issues that are at stake in its future.

Radical journalist Claud Cockburn fought successfully against the political and media establishment, writing for publications as varied as The Times and Private Eye.

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This is a systematic and accessible introduction to the critical concepts, structures and professional practices of political communication.

The computer games industry has rapidly matured.

The computer games industry has rapidly matured.

'The five authors have drawn on their enormous range of experience in newspaper and broadcast journalism, at national and regional level, as well as their teaching expertise for this book, which will be essential reading for students in journalism, and as invaluable reference tool for their professional careers'-www.

'As well as guides on how to report courts and councils, Newspaper Journalism offers tips on how to write both news stories and features and how to make and keep contacts.

Blaming the media for reproducing and extolling unrealistic female bodies has almost become a popular truism.

`It is a clich [ac]e but this book is timely, welcome and indeed a breath of fresh air.

Inside Culture offers a fresh and stimulating reassessment of the direction of cultural studies.

`The book makes a successful attempt to map the potentially transformative effects of new media on various aspects of political insitiutions and culture, both at a theorectical and empirical level.

"e;Thussu brings to this project the passion for news of a socially committed former journalist, the political economy of his international relations education and a formidable assembly of global detail, examining the recent explosion of 'infotainment'.

This is a book about the US motion picture industry - its structure and policies, its operations and practices.

The Arc and the machine is a timely and original defence of narrative in an age of information.

Robin Nelson's State of play up-dates and develops the arguments of his influential TV Drama In Transition (1997).

This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema.

Well-informed, thoughtful and transnational in its perspectives, Downing and Husband's work is likely to become the key text in the field.

`This book provides an accessible introduction to the meaning-making practices of multimedia.

Never has a reconsideration of the place of drugs in our culture been more urgent than it is today.

Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position.

They reported wars, outraged monarchs and promoted the case for their country's freedom.

For scholars of media and war, the 2003 invasion of Iraq is a compelling case to study.

Adapting Philosophy looks at the ways in which The Matrix Trilogy adapts Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, and in doing so creates its own distinctive philosophical position.

Beyond representation explores whether the last thirty years witnessed signs of 'progress' or 'progressiveness' in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US.

For as long as people have been migrating to London, so has their music.

Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world.

Thought always exaggerates' Hannah Arendt writes.

Where is semiotics now?

A book of tips, advice and encouragement for writers at all levels.

Uncovered is an oral history of the stories behind the most ground-breaking and controversial magazine covers ever published, as told by the people who created them.

Has the communication of politics become professionalised?

The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices.