Media studies

Doing News Framing Analysis provides an interpretive guide to news frames - what they are, how they can be observed in news texts, and how framing effects are uncovered and substantiated in cultural, group, and individual sites.

This book explores the place of Media Studies in the age of 'fake news', analysing the calls for a curriculum of critical news literacy as part of a cyclical policy debate.

Cities across the world have been resorting to star architects to brand their projects, spark urban regeneration and market the city image internationally.

This edited volume seeks to combine and highlight the theoretical and practical aspects of teaching by exploring and reflecting on the ways in which Cultural Studies is taught and practiced at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, in the US and internationally.

This book presents the findings, applications, and theoretical underpinnings of a unique leadership communication model: motivating language theory.

This book gathers the best papers from the HKAECT-AECT 2017 Summer International Research Symposium.

In Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, Gretchen Soderlund offers a new way to understand sensationalism in both newspapers and reform movements.

This book shows how the unique characteristics of traditionally differentiated media continue to determine narrative despite the recent digital convergence of media technologies.

In The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, a view of two people enjoying a picnic zooms up and away to show their surroundings, moving progressively farther into space, then zooms back in for a close-up of the hand of the picnicker, travelling deep into the microscopic realm.

'The Documentary Handbook is mandatory reading for those who want a critical understanding of the place of factual formats in today's exploding television and media industry, as well as expert guidance in complex craft skills in order to fully participate.

This book features research papers that examine a host of contemporary issues in Thailand.

In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema-or, perhaps more accurately, as D.

The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio is the latest sports-media scholarship from the author of How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism, winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association 's Communication and Sport Division.

This is the first thorough and systematic interrogation of Republican Party oratory and rhetoric that examines a series of leading figures in American conservative politics.

As a Sunday School teacher and church librarian for over 25years, Shirley had noticed a need for student information concerning Bible Theology and the Gospel message, along with development of a Christian's relationship with God.

His life changes after he is unexpectedly left in Los Angeles at the age of fourteen.

Romantic comedy is an enduringly popular genre which has maintained its appeal by constantly evolving, from the screwball comedy to the recent emergence of the bromance.

This book addresses the state-of-the-art initiatives as well as challenges, policy, and strategy issues in developing a digital heritage ecosystem within the broader context of an emerging digital culture.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the impact of the Internet on Malaysian politics and how it has played a pivotal role in influencing the country’s political climate.

Cultural understanding between the United States and China has been a long and complex process.

America's preeminent First Amendment lawyer speaks out on the most controversial free-speech issues of our time Since 1971, when the Pentagon Papers were leaked to the New York Times and furious debate over First Amendment rights ensued, free-speech cases have emerged in rapid succession.

This book investigates young children's everyday digital practices, embodied digital play, and digital media products - such as mobile applications, digital games, and software tools.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2018 International Conference on the theme of "e;new media for educational change: effects on learning and reflection on practice"e;.

A successful book starts with a great book proposal.

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over-and upending-nearly every aspect of life.

During World War II, Hollywood studios supported the war effort by making patriotic movies designed to raise the nation's morale.

The Digital Factory reveals the hidden human labor that supports today's digital capitalism.

This book gathers selected papers from the Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology 2019 International Conference on the theme of "e;Shaping the Future of Education, Communication and Technology.

Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, this key textbook offers an insight on the theory of emotional intelligence and its vital practical value.

Providing a truly comprehensive overview of international journalism and global news reporting in the digital age, this new introductory textbook surveys the full variety of contexts that journalists around the world operate in; the challenges and pressures they face; their journalistic practices; and the wider theoretical and social implications.

An illuminating study of the complex relationship between children and media in the digital ageNow, as never before, young people are surrounded by media thanks to the sophistication and portability of the technology that puts it literally in the palms of their hands.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing all aspects of communications and journalism as automatic processes are being introduced into all facets of classical journalism: investigation, content production, and distribution.

Since September 11, 2001, the extensive literature on the United States's image abroad, by popular pundits and academics alike, leaves the reader with a false impression that foreigners' views of America are normally negative and impervious to change.

This edited collection examines women journalists' experiences and obstacles in South Africa's (SA) democracy.

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How digital media are transforming Arab culture, literature, and politicsIn recent years, Arab activists have confronted authoritarian regimes both on the street and online, leaking videos and exposing atrocities, and demanding political rights.

The videogame series Mass Effect is a remarkable rarity not only for being an original science-fictional franchise of recent vintage that has risen to such prominent commercial and critical success in popular culture but also for pushing the canonical boundaries of how science fiction as a genre will be experienced and understood in the future.

This book takes an ethnographic approach to discuss the policy practices within China's broadcasting industry.

The Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining (ESNAM) is the first major reference work to integrate fundamental concepts and research directions in the areas of social networks and applications to data mining.

While many people think true crime is a new phenomenon, Americans have been obsessed with the genre for over a century, and popular culture continuously tries to cash in.

This book considers the impact of digital media and technology on lived experience for young people in foster care.

The history of projected images at the turn of the seventeenth century reveals a changing perception of chance and order, contingency and form.

Die ehemals den Massenmedien vorbehaltene Funktion, die Gesellschaft zu reflektieren und diese gesellschaftlichen Selbstbeschreibungen auch gesellschaftsweit bekannt zu machen, kann heute auch von Social-Media-Plattformen erfüllt werden, wenn die Nutzer*innen dort die Gesellschaft beschreiben und diese Beiträge massenhaft verbreitet werden.

This book addresses the hot topic in audiovisual translation (AVT) of video game localization through the unique perspective of dubbing, an area which has so far received relatively little scholarly focus.

Die Beiträge des Bandes thematisieren den Zusammenhang von Medien, Demokratie und Bildung im Dreischritt „Information” als Basis politischer Öffentlichkeit, „Partizipation” als anzustrebende demokratische Praxis sowie „Reflexion” auf die grundlegenden Wertvoraussetzungen gelingender gesellschaftlicher Organisation die digitale Kommunikation.

 Video Game Chronotopes and Social Justice examines how the chronotope, which literally means "e;timespace,"e; is an effective interpretive lens through which to understand the cultural and ideological significance of video games.

Key Terms in Comics Studies is a glossary of over 300 terms and critical concepts currently used in the Anglophone academic study of comics, including those from other languages that are currently adopted and used in English.