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In the Presence of English: Media and European Youth (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): Margie Berns, Kees De Bot, Uwe Hasebrink In the Presence of English: Media and European Youth (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Margie Berns, Kees De Bot, Uwe Hasebrink
R2,872 Discovery Miles 28 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The starting point for this comparative study on the role of English within the media worlds of European youth is the recognition of the increasing importance of communication with peoples from other cultures and countries.

Within the European Union (EU), English has a special role in this regard. While EU policy promotes all languages spoken in member states, and although English is not the most frequently spoken first language, it is the language two Europeans are most likely to use to make themselves understood. This lingua franca phenomenon occurs not only in the fields of science and technology, but also in business and everyday, personal interactions. The media, which plays an important role in intercultural communication, serves as a cultural forum, and both creates culture and transmits representations of other cultures. Its offerings are often highly internationalized, especially in pop culture, films, TV series, and variety shows, which exercise great influence on cultural and linguistic issues in the multilingual, multicultural EU.

The primary goals of "In the Presence of English: Media and European Youth" are to gain insight into the roles of English in and for Europe; to contribute to discussions of the possibilities of transnational media offerings; to better understand the influence of media in foreign language acquisition and of its role in promoting cross cultural understanding across European cultures; and to better understand the role of English media in the construction of the world view of European youth. The research presented on the relationship of media use to language proficiency has relevance to how schools react to and take advantage of mediainfluences on English acquisition. It also has implications for approaches to language policy and planning issues relating to the present and future role of English in the EU, and the re-evaluation of the presence and prevalence of English in the media both as a threat to the notion of a European identity and as a contributing factor in the creation of such an identity.

Researchers, scholars, practitioners, and students of such fields as second language pedagogy and acquisition, language policy, media and communication, and sociolinguistics as well as educational and social psychology will all have an interest in "In the Presence of English: Media and European Youth."

Media Messages in American Presidential Elections (Hardcover): Diana Owen Media Messages in American Presidential Elections (Hardcover)
Diana Owen
R2,776 Discovery Miles 27 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Focusing her attention on the audience, Diana Owen investigates the way people process media messages during campaigns. This study examines the role of ads, news stories, poll results, and debates in presidential elections. Based on surveys fielded during the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns, Owen compares these four message categories to determine their relative importance to voters. In addition she investigates how individuals make use of messages in establishing their perception of candidates and issues. Mass communication's uses and gratifications approach provides this study's theoretical foundation. The book is designed for researchers and students in communications and mass media, voting behavior, and public opinion. Using surveys conducted during the 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns, Diana Owen first addresses two basic research questions. How do media messages transmitted during presidential elections shape voter attitudes toward and perceptions of candidates and campaign issues? Do different types of media messages influence voters' feelings about candidates and elections in different ways? Focusing on candidate advertisements, newspaper and television news stories, poll results, and presidential debates, she also ties voters' general media use habits to the way they receive and process media messages.

Meaning in the Age of Social Media (Hardcover): G. Langlois Meaning in the Age of Social Media (Hardcover)
G. Langlois
R1,911 Discovery Miles 19 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The search for meaning is an essential human activity. It is not just about agreeing on some definitions about the world, objects, and people; it is an ethical process of opening up to find new possibilities. Langlois uses case studies of social media platforms (including Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon) to revisit traditional conceptions of meaning.

Consumer Culture and the Media - Magazines in the Public Eye (Hardcover): M. Iqani Consumer Culture and the Media - Magazines in the Public Eye (Hardcover)
M. Iqani
R1,508 Discovery Miles 15 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How did consumer culture become synonymous with westernised societies? Iqani argues that it is the way it is promoted by media texts. She provides a detailed analysis of publicly displayed consumer magazine covers and engages with big questions about the public, power and identity in mediated consumer culture.

The Washington, DC Media Corps in the 21st Century - The Source-Correspondent Relationship (Hardcover): L. Hellmuller, Lea... The Washington, DC Media Corps in the 21st Century - The Source-Correspondent Relationship (Hardcover)
L. Hellmuller, Lea Hellmueller
R2,008 R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Save R101 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book provides a fresh perspective on the shifting media landscape within Washington DC, re-evaluating journalist-source relationships, the power dynamic within the media corps, and the ways in which technology have changed the description of DC political news - detailing the ways in which media relationships are changing within Washington DC.

CineTech - Film, Convergence and New Media (Hardcover, 2006 Ed.): Stephen Keane CineTech - Film, Convergence and New Media (Hardcover, 2006 Ed.)
Stephen Keane
R4,570 Discovery Miles 45 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What does it mean to regard cinema as technology? How do special effects change our experience of contemporary film? How important is the Internet to the film industry and film fans? "CineTech" explores these debates and examines the important intersection between film and new media. Providing a comprehensive introduction to the digital practices used in film, this book moves from historical perspectives to up-to-date analysis. Applying these debates through specific case studies, examples are drawn from recent Hollywood blockbusters such as the "Star Wars" prequels and the "Matrix" trilogy. Case studies, exercises, and suggestions for further study make this an ideal resource for courses and student assignments in both film and media studies.

Gameworlds - Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play (Hardcover): Seth Giddings Gameworlds - Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play (Hardcover)
Seth Giddings
R4,231 Discovery Miles 42 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contemporary everyday life and media cultures. Seth Giddings looks to fill a gap by focusing on the relationship between the actual and virtual worlds of play in everyday life. He addresses both the continuities and differences between digital play and longer-established modes of play (role-play, play with toys, etc.). The 'gameworlds' title indicates both the virtual world designed into the videogame and the wider environments in which play is manifested: social relationships between players; hardware and software; between the virtual worlds of the game and the media universes they extend (e.g. Harry Potter, Lego, Star Wars); and the gameworlds generated by children's imaginations and creativity (through talk and role-play, drawings and outdoor play). The gameworld raises questions about who, and what, is in play.Drawing on recent theoretical work in science and technology studies and new media studies, a key theme is the material and embodied character of these gameworlds and their components (players' bodies, computer hardware, toys, virtual physics, the physical environment, etc.). Gameworlds uses each chapter to discuss small-scale ethnographic studies and close analyses of particular videogames, with shorter sections addressing the theoretical and conceptual issues that arise. Building on detailed case studies, this is the first book to explore the nature of play in the virtual worlds of video games and how this play relates to, and crosses over into, everyday play in the actual world.

International Performance Research Pedagogies - Towards an Unconditional Discipline? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Sruti Bala,... International Performance Research Pedagogies - Towards an Unconditional Discipline? (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Sruti Bala, Milija Gluhovic, Hanna Korsberg, Kati Roettger
R3,121 Discovery Miles 31 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers a unique and much-needed interrogation of the broader questions surrounding international performance research which are pertinent to the present and the future of Theatre and Performance studies. Marking the completion of eight years of the Erasmus Mundus MA Programme in International Performance Research (MAIPR) - a programme run jointly by the universities of Warwick (UK), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Helsinki/Tampere (Finland), Arts in Belgrade (Serbia), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) - the essays in this volume take stock of the achievements, insights and challenges of what international performance research is or ought to be about. By reflecting on the discipline of Performance Studies using the MAIPR programme as a case study in point, the volume addresses the broader question of the critical link between the discipline of Performance Studies and humanities education in general, examining their interactions in the contemporary university in the context of globalisation.

The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): James Smithies The Digital Humanities and the Digital Modern (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
James Smithies
R4,216 Discovery Miles 42 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides new critical and methodological approaches to digital humanities, intended to guide technical development as well as critical analysis. Informed by the history of technology and culture and new perspectives on modernity, Smithies grounds his claims in the engineered nature of computing devices and their complex entanglement with our communities, our scholarly traditions, and our sense of self. The distorting mentalite of the digital modern informs our attitudes to computers and computationally intensive research, leading scholars to reject articulations of meaning that admit the interdependence of humans and the complex socio-technological systems we are embedded in. By framing digital humanities with the digital modern, researchers can rebuild our relationship to technical development, and seek perspectives that unite practical and critical activity. This requires close attention to the cyber-infrastructures that inform our research, the software-intensive methods that are producing new knowledge, and the ethical issues implicit in the production of digital humanities tools and methods. The book will be of interest to anyone interested in the intersection of technology with humanities research, and the future of digital humanities.

Transnational Family Communication - Immigrants and ICTs (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Sondra Cuban Transnational Family Communication - Immigrants and ICTs (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Sondra Cuban
R3,561 Discovery Miles 35 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the struggles that immigrant women experience when communicating with their transnational families through information and communication technologies (ICTs). Sondra Cuban recounts the fascinating stories of sixty female immigrants living in Washington state, and explores how gender, social class, nationality, and language influence their ICT usage. She addresses the emotional labor involved in interacting with the families they left behind as well as their ingenious communication systems which challenge the existing research surrounding this unique phenomenon. Early chapters of this book detail the current arguments and theories of transnational family communication in order to propose a new model thereof. Throughout, larger questions of global equality are addressed.

New Ecology for Education - Communication X Learning - Selected Papers from the HKAECT-AECT 2017 Summer International Research... New Ecology for Education - Communication X Learning - Selected Papers from the HKAECT-AECT 2017 Summer International Research Symposium (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Will W. K Ma, Chi-Keung Chan, Kar-wai Tong, Heidi Fung, Cheuk Wai Rose Fong
R5,005 Discovery Miles 50 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book gathers the best papers from the HKAECT-AECT 2017 Summer International Research Symposium. Revealing the complex interactions between communication and learning, which are represented by the symbol "X" in the title, it provides a platform for knowledge exchange on the new ecology for education in the digital era. It also equips readers to handle complex issues in both communication and education, and clarifies the difference between practitioners and academics in communication and in education.

Madness, Power and the Media - Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress (Hardcover): S. Harper Madness, Power and the Media - Class, Gender and Race in Popular Representations of Mental Distress (Hardcover)
S. Harper
R1,519 Discovery Miles 15 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Questioning the psychiatric construction of mental distress as 'illness', and challenging existing studies of media stigmatization, Stephen Harper argues that today's media images of mental distress are often sympathetic, yet tend to reproduce the sexist, classist, racist and individualist ideologies of contemporary capitalism.

Europe, the Crisis, and the Internet - A Web Sphere Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Dennis Nguyen Europe, the Crisis, and the Internet - A Web Sphere Analysis (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Dennis Nguyen
R3,580 Discovery Miles 35 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a detailed analysis of the transnational web sphere that emerged at the height of the Eurozone crisis between 2011 and 2013. During these turbulent years, a diverse spectrum of professional communicators from the media and political sectors as well as from opinionated individuals on blogs and social media discussed, and thus framed, the crisis in the digital public sphere. The analysis focuses on the various fields of contestation of the crisis that became detectable in the transnational online discourse and shows how conflict and fragmentation shaped political communication in this context. Nguyen concludes that there was not a single crisis but a chain of intersecting and profound political and cultural conflicts triggered by the economic upheavals, which led to the emergence of an extremely dynamic and unstable transnational digital public sphere, where different political and cultural viewpoints collided.

From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics - Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides (Paperback): Divina... From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics - Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides (Paperback)
Divina Frau-Meigs, Jeremie Nicey, Michael Palmer, Julia Pohle, Patricio Tupper
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Through extensive research and testimonies from those involved, this book presents an in-depth account from the 1970s to today of the major issues concerning information flow in international geopolitics, including a look at the negotiations surrounding the major policy debates. Few studies of NWICO and WSIS have considered the continuity between the two activities--or included in the debate the crucial intermediary period between--and this book provides new insight into an issue of multilingual and multicultural importance.

The Discourse of Politics in Action - Politics as Usual (Hardcover): R. Wodak The Discourse of Politics in Action - Politics as Usual (Hardcover)
R. Wodak
R2,881 Discovery Miles 28 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is an interdisciplinary study providing first-hand evidence of the everyday lives of politicians; what politicians actually "do" on the backstage in political organizations. The book offers answers to the widely discussed phenomena of disenchantment with politics and depoliticization.

Globalization, Political Violence and Translation (Hardcover): E. Bielsa, C. Hughes Globalization, Political Violence and Translation (Hardcover)
E. Bielsa, C. Hughes
R1,520 Discovery Miles 15 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Written by leading scholars in a range of disciplines (from law, philosophy, politics and sociology to media studies and translation studies), this book provides key insights into the globalization of violence and the role of translation in this context, and includes detailed empirical analyses of media representations and translators accounts.

Charles De Gaulle and the Media - Leadership, TV and the Birth of the Fifth Republic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Riccardo Brizzi Charles De Gaulle and the Media - Leadership, TV and the Birth of the Fifth Republic (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Riccardo Brizzi; Translated by Jon Kear
R3,945 R3,576 Discovery Miles 35 760 Save R369 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores Charles De Gaulle's use and strict control of television between 1958 and 1969, highlighting the association between charismatic power and television with regards to legitimizing the Gaullist leadership and determining an evolution towards presidentialism during the Fifth Republic. A protagonist of European political history of the twentieth century, Charles de Gaulle was a pioneer in the use of mass media: in the Second World War he had earned the nickname of General-micro due to his reliance on radio communication; in 1958 he then started an substantive and fruitful use of television, which some of his opponents labelled as 'telecracy'. From difficult beginnings, where he followed the advice of publicity and communication experts, through his masterful TV appearances during the dramatic moments of the Algerian War, to the presidential campaign of 1965 and the crisis of May 1968, the author paints a compelling fresco of de Gaulle as the first TV leader in contemporary European history. The book will appeal to students and scholars interested in the fields of French politics, political communication and political leadership.

Willing Collaborators - Foreign Partners in Chinese Media (Hardcover): Michael Keane, Brian Yecies, Terry Flew Willing Collaborators - Foreign Partners in Chinese Media (Hardcover)
Michael Keane, Brian Yecies, Terry Flew
R3,581 Discovery Miles 35 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In recent years, many media producers, screenwriters, technicians and investors from the Asia-Pacific region have been attracted to projects in the People's Republic of China. The Chinese state's recent willingness to consider collaboration with foreign partners is a major factor that is enticing and supporting a range of new ventures. Projects, often with a lighter commercial entertainment feel, compared with the propaganda-oriented content of the past, are multiplying. With this surge in production and the availability of resources and locations, creative talent is moving to the Mainland from South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. This volume examines this phenomenon, looking at examples from film, documentary, television, animation and games.

Us against Them - The Political Culture of Talk Radio (Hardcover): Randy Bobbitt Us against Them - The Political Culture of Talk Radio (Hardcover)
Randy Bobbitt
R4,065 R2,861 Discovery Miles 28 610 Save R1,204 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Us against Them: The Political Culture of Talk Radio examines the phenomenon of talk radio and the role that it plays in the American political process as well as popular culture. Among the central questions addressed is a basic one regarding why people choose to listen to political talk instead of music. Do they listen to get objective information on both sides of political issues to help them make their own voting decisions, or do they seek out the hosts and content that simply validates their own beliefs? After a consideration of the history of talk radio as well as where the industry stands today in terms of audience demographics and advertiser support, Randy Bobbitt takes a theoretical look at how talk radio may or may have not impacted political issues and campaigns from the 1950s through the 2006 mid-term election, as well as the real impact of talk radio on the 2008 presidential campaign. Finally, Bobbitt considers the future of political talk radio in light of the newest threat to the First Amendment: the possible return of the Fairness Doctrine, a twentieth century law that once required broadcasters to provide politically balanced programming.

Media, Myth, and Society (Hardcover): A. Berger Media, Myth, and Society (Hardcover)
A. Berger
R1,846 Discovery Miles 18 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using a cultural approach to classical myths, this book examines how they affect psychoanalytic theory, historical experience, elite culture, popular culture, and everyday life. Berger explores diverse topics such as the Oedipus Myth, James Bond, Star Wars, and fairy tales.

Look Again - A Book of Hidden Messages (Paperback): Irving Kirsten, Stone Jon Look Again - A Book of Hidden Messages (Paperback)
Irving Kirsten, Stone Jon
R238 R215 Discovery Miles 2 150 Save R23 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Community without Community in Digital Culture (Hardcover): C. Gere Community without Community in Digital Culture (Hardcover)
C. Gere
R1,508 Discovery Miles 15 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The word 'digital' refers to both digital data, as used in computers, and also the digits, fingers, of the hand, and thus by extension touch, which has long been a trope for connectivity, community, and participation. Thus, in its drive towards greater connectivity, our culture is digital in more than one sense, in that it increasingly encourages such contact (from the Latin, 'com', together, and 'tangere', to touch). But at the same time such technologies always involve separation, gap and distance. Community Without Community in Digital Culture suggests that networks always involve this other aspect of touch, separation, distance and gap, as a necessary concomitant of our fundamental technicity. Thus, against the prevailing presumptions that new technologies involve greater contact, relationality and community, this book proposes that they exemplify the gap inherent in touch, the 'inconceivable, small, 'infinitesimal difference'' that separates us from each other in time and space. In this such technologies are part of the history of the death of God, the loss of an overarching metaphysical framework which would bind us together in some form of relation or communion. This can be understood in terms of contingency, which has the same root as contact.

British Youth Television - Transnational Teens, Industry, Genre (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Faye Woods British Youth Television - Transnational Teens, Industry, Genre (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Faye Woods
R3,533 Discovery Miles 35 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, Faye Woods explores the raucous, cheeky, intimate voice of British youth television. This is the first study of a complete television system targeting teens and twenty somethings, chronicling a period of significant industrial change in the early 21st century. British Youth Television offers a snapshot of the complexities of contemporary television from a British standpoint - youth-focused programming that blossomed in the commercial expansion of the digital era, yet indelibly shaped by public service broadcasting, and now finding its feet on proliferating platforms. Considering BBC Three, My Mad Fat Diary, The Inbetweeners, Our War and Made in Chelsea, amongst others; Woods identifies a television that is defiantly British, yet also has a complex transatlantic relationship with US teen TV. This book creates a space for British voices in an academic and cultural landscape dominated by the American teenager.

Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement (Paperback): Sarah Pink, Simone Abram Media, Anthropology and Public Engagement (Paperback)
Sarah Pink, Simone Abram
R887 Discovery Miles 8 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Contemporary anthropology is done in a world where social and digital media are playing an increasingly significant role, where anthropological and arts practices are often intertwined in museum and public intervention contexts, and where anthropologists are encouraged to engage with mass media. Because anthropologists are often expected and inspired to ensure their work engages with public issues, these opportunities to disseminate work in new ways and to new publics simultaneously create challenges as anthropologists move their practice into unfamiliar collaborative domains and expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. In this volume, contributors question whether a fresh public anthropology is emerging through these new practices.

Communication and Midterm Elections - Media, Message, and Mobilization (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): John Allen Hendricks, Dan S... Communication and Midterm Elections - Media, Message, and Mobilization (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
John Allen Hendricks, Dan S Chill
R3,042 R2,079 Discovery Miles 20 790 Save R963 (32%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a comprehensive examination of midterm elections from the lens of communications and media coverage. Using a wide variety of methods, this contributed volume covers the differences, similarities, and challenges unique to midterm elections.

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