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Advertising, the Media and Globalisation - A World in Motion (Hardcover): John Sinclair Advertising, the Media and Globalisation - A World in Motion (Hardcover)
John Sinclair
R3,909 Discovery Miles 39 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a thorough account of contemporary trends in advertising and media industries. It examines the role of advertising in the globalisation of consumer culture, taking an empirical, region-by-region approach.

Advertising attracts much public criticism for the commercialisation of culture and its apparent impact on social and personal life. This book outlines and assesses the issues involved, with regard to how they are manifested in different regional, national and global contexts. Topics covered include:

  • advertising as an object of study
  • global trends in the advertising industry
  • advertising and the media
  • issues in advertising and society
  • advertising, globalisation and world regions

While maintaining a contemporary focus, the book looks over the whole of the 20th century as background to the globalisation of what it calls the manufacturing-marketing-media complex. There is specific emphasis on the 1980s, a crucial decade for advertising as a global institution; the 1990s, as the decade which gave rise to the discourse of globalisation; and the decade recently ended, as the era of new media.

Best Before - Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence (Hardcover): James Newman Best Before - Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence (Hardcover)
James Newman
R3,925 Discovery Miles 39 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Despite record sales and an ever-growing global industry, the simple fact is that videogames are disappearing.

Most obviously, the physical deterioration of discs, cartridges, consoles and controllers means that the data and devices will crumble to dust and eventually will be lost forever. However, there is more to the disappearance of videogames than plastic corrosion and bit rot. Best Before examines how the videogames industry's retail, publishing, technology design, advertising and marketing practices actively produce obsolescence, wearing out and retiring old games to make way for the always new, just out of reach, 'coming soon' title and 'next generation' platform.

Set against the context of material deterioration and the discursive production of obsolescence, Best Before examines the conceptual and practical challenges faced within the nascent field of game preservation. Understanding videogames as rich, complex and mutable texts and experiences that are supported and sustained by cultures of gameplay and fandom, Best Before considers how - and even whether - we might preserve and present games for future generations.

Art as Social Practice - Technologies for Change (Paperback): Xtine Burrough, Judy Walgren Art as Social Practice - Technologies for Change (Paperback)
Xtine Burrough, Judy Walgren
R1,148 Discovery Miles 11 480 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- Provides both students and artists with a practice-orientated guide to socially engaged art practices in the twenty-first century. - Features first-hand insight into the individual processes and methodologies of twenty-eight established artists including: Kim Abeles, Christopher Blay, Joseph DeLappe, Mary Beth Heffernan, Chris Johnson, Rebekah Modrak, Praba Pilar, Tabita Rezaire, Sylvain Souklaye, and collaborators Victoria Vesna and Siddharth Ramakrishnan. - Demonstrates a range of creative projects that engage different forms of technologies for readers interested in making the social turn in their artistic practice, and offers creative prompts that readers can respond to in their own practices.

Making Sense of Media and Politics - Five Principles in Political Communication (Paperback, 2nd edition): Gadi Wolfsfeld Making Sense of Media and Politics - Five Principles in Political Communication (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Gadi Wolfsfeld
R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Extremely well written and organized in an accessible way without talking down to the reader, drawing the reader in with its conversational, exploratory style. Provides a unique, brief set of conceptual tools (the five principles) that is pulled through the entire text to help make sense of the broader field of political communication. Excellent use of examples and case studies that illustrate major concepts, including framing and media effects. A multi-perspective approach (political elites, journalists, etc.), valuable for analyzing power dynamics in various media environments. Deals extensively with the role of media in war, peace, and terrorism, adding important international coverage alongside domestic media politics in elections. Integrates discussion of new media alongside coverage of traditional media for a comprehensive understanding of contemporary political communication. * Puts forth a balanced argument that prompts students to stay focused on the political context in which the media is operating. New to the Second Edition Up-to-date coverage of major political events in the last decade, including the landmark US elections of 2016 and 2020. Devotes more attention to the "hybrid media system" that has developed over the last decade, providing a greater balance between traditional "news" and social media in particular. Includes more cross-national research, especially in non-Western and non-democratic countries. Refines the five principles of political communication to better reflect contemporary media trends. Covers key emerging topics including misinformation and threats to democratic institutions, new forms of political engagement, and the economic base of the various forms of media.

Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions - Rational Reconstructions (Hardcover): Warren Buckland Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions - Rational Reconstructions (Hardcover)
Warren Buckland
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions, Warren Buckland asks a series of questions about how film theory gets written in the first place:

  • How does it select its objects of study and its methods of inquiry?
  • How does it make discoveries and explain filmic phenomena? And,
  • How does it formulate and solve theoretical problems?

He asks these questions of film theory through a rational reconstruction and a classical commentary. Both frameworks clarify and reformulate vague and inexact expressions, redefine obscure concepts, and examine the underlying logic of film theory arguments. This not only subjects film theory to rigorous examination; it also teaches students how to write theory, by enabling them to question and critically interrogate the logic of previous film theory arguments.

The book consists of nine chapters that closely examine a series of canonical film books and essays in great detail, by Peter Wollen, Laura Mulvey, Thomas Elsaesser, Stephen Heath, and Slavoj i ek, among others.

Baidu - Geopolitical Dynamics of the Internet in China (Hardcover): ShinJoung Yeo Baidu - Geopolitical Dynamics of the Internet in China (Hardcover)
ShinJoung Yeo
R1,382 Discovery Miles 13 820 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

An in-depth exploration of the political economy of the Chinese technology company Baidu which, along with China's other tech giants Alibaba and Tencent, has emerged as a leading global Internet company. Baidu - not Google - is the dominant search company in China, the largest Internet market in the world, whose impact on the political economy is no longer limited to China, but the broader global market, and in particular the US economy. This book outlines the intense competition within the search engine market and illustrates the inter-capitalist dynamic in the contemporary Chinese Internet sector, and highlights Baidu's uniqueness on the global stage as it pivots to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and expands into other industrial sectors. ShinJoung Yeo offers a window into the intensifying geopolitical shaping of the global Internet industry, and the contention and collaboration among multinational firms and states to control the most dynamic capitalist economic sector - the Internet. An important and timely analysis for anyone interested in the political economy of the global media, communication, and information industries, and particularly those requiring a better understanding of the Internet industry in China.

The Routledge Companion to Photography, Representation and Social Justice (Hardcover): Moritz Neumuller The Routledge Companion to Photography, Representation and Social Justice (Hardcover)
Moritz Neumuller
R5,744 Discovery Miles 57 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This includes work by leading scholars, artists, scientists and practitioners in the field of visual culture. It explores current debates surrounding post-colonial thinking, empowerment, identity, contemporary modes of self-representation, diversity in the arts, the automated creation and use of imagery in science and industry, vernacular imagery and social media platforms, visual mechanisms for control and manipulation in the age of surveillance capitalism and deep fakes, as well as the role of imagery in the times of crisis, such as pandemics, wars and climate change. Expanding on contemporary debates within the field, this is essential reading for photographers, scholars, and students alike.

French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 (Paperback): Alexander Golovlev French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 (Paperback)
Alexander Golovlev; Series edited by Pauline Fairclough
R1,180 Discovery Miles 11 800 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

French and Soviet Musical Diplomacies in Post-War Austria, 1945-1955 investigates how promoting 'national' music and musicians was used as an important asset by France and the USSR in post-Nazi Austria, covering music's role in international relations at various levels, within changing power frameworks. Bridging international relations, musical sociology, media studies, and Cold War history, four incisive chapters examine the crossroads of Soviet, French, and Austrian cultural politics and discourse-building, presented in two parts - institutions of musical diplomacy: Soviet and French cultural diplomats in comparison; sounds of music coming to Austria: Soviet and French musicians on tour. Using a communication- and media-oriented approach, this study casts new light, firstly, on the interpretative power of 'receiving' publics and, secondly, on the role of cultural transmitters at different levels. This is a valuable study for those specialising in Russian and East European music and music and politics. It will also appeal to cultural historians and all those interested in the intersections between music, international relations, and Cold War history.

Modern American Literature and Contemporary Iranian Cinema - Identity, Appropriation, and Recontextualization (Paperback):... Modern American Literature and Contemporary Iranian Cinema - Identity, Appropriation, and Recontextualization (Paperback)
Morteza Yazdanjoo
R1,121 Discovery Miles 11 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

an endeavor to contribute to the burgeoning field of comparative literature, this book explores the understudied "intertextual dialogism" between American literature and Iranian cinema, providing an intertextual link between the two seemingly separate departments of literature and cinema. Foregrounding "the textuality of history, and the historicity of texts", this book contends that literary "texts" are synchronic artifacts prone to myriad intertextual and extra-textual readings and understandings, each historically conditioned. This book pinpoints how Iranian cinema appropriates and recontextualizes instances of modern American literature to construct and inculcate vestiges of national/gender identity on the silver screen. Watching Herzog, Franny and Zooey, The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Death of a Salesman in Iran adds a new intertextual level to their dialogic textuality.

Stories of Life in the Workplace - An Open Architecture for Organizational Narratology (Hardcover): Larry Browning, George H... Stories of Life in the Workplace - An Open Architecture for Organizational Narratology (Hardcover)
Larry Browning, George H Morris
R4,500 Discovery Miles 45 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Addressing both renowned theories and standard applications, Stories of Life in the Workplace explains how stories affect human practices and organizational life. Authors Larry Browning and George H. Morris explore how we experience, interpret, and personalize narrative stories in our everyday lives, and how these communicative acts impact our social aims and interactions. In pushing the boundaries of how we perceive narrative and organization, the authors include stories that are broadly applicable across all concepts and experiences.

With a perception of narrative and its organizational application, chapters focus on areas such as pedagogy, therapy, project management, strategic planning, public communication, and organizational culture. Readers will learn to:

  • differentiate and gain an in-depth understanding of perspectives from varying narrators;
  • recognize how stories are constructed and used in organizations, and modify the stories they tell;
  • view stories as a means to promote an open exchange of creativity.

By integrating a range of theories and practices, Browning and Morris write for an audience of narrative novices and scholars alike. With a distinctive approach and original insight, Stories of Life in the Workplace shows how individuality, developing culture, and the psychology of the self are constructed with language and how the acceptance of one 's self is accomplished by reaffirming and rearranging one 's story.

Active Measures - The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare (Paperback): Thomas Rid Active Measures - The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare (Paperback)
Thomas Rid
R563 R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Save R130 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
New Media, Politics and Society in Israel (Hardcover): Gideon Doron, Azi Lev-On New Media, Politics and Society in Israel (Hardcover)
Gideon Doron, Azi Lev-On
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book addresses the social and political landscape of Internet usage in Israel, and studies the formation of a networked information society in the "hi-tech nation". As Israel is considered a highly technologically developed country, it could serve as a model to assess and compare the performance and prospects of the Internet in other countries as well. Chapters address a range of issues, including the diffusion of the Internet to Israel, religion and the Internet in the Israeli Jewish context, Internet-based planned encounters between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians and between Jews and Arabs in Israel, online journalism and user-generated content, Israeli public relations online, Internet usage by Israeli parliamentarians, parties and candidates, as well as audiences, and the facilitation of personalized politics through personal sites of politicians. This book was originally published as a special issue of Israel Affairs.

Media Effects - A Narrative Perspective (Paperback): James Shanahan Media Effects - A Narrative Perspective (Paperback)
James Shanahan
R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Does exposure to media violence make us more violent? Do stereotypes in the media affect the way we see different social groups? Do media institutions play any role in social change? Media Effects is a concise introduction which studies the ways in which media use affects society. James Shanahan explores how researchers and society became interested in media effects, outlines the important developments in the field, and looks at how research on narrative is playing a progressively important role in revealing what we know. The book also provides a timely interweaving of different perspectives, ranging from concerned and critical voices within media studies to quantitative psychological approaches which tend to be more sceptical about powerful media effects. Concise and authoritative, Media Effects is the go-to text for students and scholars getting to grips with this fascinating and important topic.

Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies - Brazil, Russia, India and China (Hardcover): Lynne Ciochetto Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies - Brazil, Russia, India and China (Hardcover)
Lynne Ciochetto
R4,207 Discovery Miles 42 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Brazil, Russia, India and China are four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies in the world. Strong economic growth in each of these economies has been accompanied by the expansion of the advertising and consumer goods sectors. Using a series of country studies, this book explores the dynamics of global capitalism from the perspective of global advertising. The book highlights the on-going expansion of advertising and consumerism against the wider socio-economic, political and cultural contexts. It provides fresh insights about contemporary global priorities, and argues that advertising plays a key role linking culture and the economy. By presenting individual case studies of advertising campaigns, it offers examples of the globalisation of specific brands. Environmental implications of the expansion of advertising and its role in stimulating consumerism are explored in the context of the four emerging economies. The book compares and contrasts the individual country profiles, and makes an assessment of the validity of the argument regarding their projected importance and the likelihood of their future dominance of the global economy.

China's New Creative Clusters - Governance, Human Capital and Investment (Hardcover): Michael Keane China's New Creative Clusters - Governance, Human Capital and Investment (Hardcover)
Michael Keane
R4,209 Discovery Miles 42 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recognising that creativity is a major driving force in the post-industrial economy, the Chinese government has recently established a range of "creative clusters" - industrial parks devoted to media industries, and arts districts - in order to promote the development of the creative industries. This book examines these new creative clusters, outlining their nature and purpose, and assessing their effectiveness. Drawing on case studies of a range of cluster models, and comparing them with international examples, the book demonstrates that creativity, both in China and internationally, is in fact a process of fitting new ideas to existing patterns, models and formats. It shows how large and exceptionally impressive creative clusters have been successfully established, but raises the important questions of whether profit or culture is the driving force, and of whether the bringing together of independent-minded, creative people, entrepreneurial businessmen, preferential policies and foreign investment may in time lead to unintended changes in social and political attitudes in China, including a weakening of state bureaucratic power. An important contribution to the existing literature on the subject, this book will be of great interest to scholars of urban studies, cultural geography, cultural economics and Asian studies.

Violence and War in Culture and the Media - Five Disciplinary Lenses (Hardcover): Athina Karatzogianni Violence and War in Culture and the Media - Five Disciplinary Lenses (Hardcover)
Athina Karatzogianni
R4,221 Discovery Miles 42 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited volume examines theoretical and empirical issues relating to violence and war and its implications for media, culture and society.

Over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of books, films and art on the subject of violence and war. However, this is the first volume that offers a varied analysis which has wider implications for several disciplines, thus providing the reader with a text that is both multi-faceted and accessible. This book introduces the current debates surrounding this topic through five particular lenses:

  • the historical involves an examination of historical patterns of the communication of violence and war through a variety sources
  • the cultural utilises the cultural studies perspective to engage with issues of violence, visibility and spectatorship
  • the sociological focuses on how terrorism, violence and war are remembered and negotiated in the public sphere
  • the political offers an exploration into the politics of assigning blame for war, the influence of psychology on media actors, and new media political communication issues in relation to the state and the media
  • the gender-studies perspective provides an analysis of violence and war from a gender studies viewpoint.

Violence and War in Culture and the Media will be of much interest to students of war and conflict studies, media and communications studies, sociology, security studies and political science.

The Media Teacher's Handbook (Hardcover): Elaine Scarratt, Jon Davison The Media Teacher's Handbook (Hardcover)
Elaine Scarratt, Jon Davison
R3,923 Discovery Miles 39 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Media Teacher 's Handbook is an indispensible guide for all teachers, both specialist and non-specialist, delivering Media Studies and media education in secondary schools and colleges.

It is the first text to draw together the three key elements of secondary sector teaching in relation to media study - the theoretical, the practical and the professional - in order to support media teachers throughout their careers:

  • Section One: Contexts explores the history of, rationale for, and justification of studying the media from 1900 to the present day, and considers the tensions implicit in the subject caused by opposing views of culture.
  • Section Two: Curriculum comprises seven chapters that focus on studying the media from Key Stages 3 and 4 in English, through GCSE and A Level Media Studies. It also explores approaches to teaching the Creative and Media Diploma, media and citizenship, and practical media production.
  • Section Three: Career Development is designed to support those establishing and leading Media Studies departments and those who are charged with the initial preparation and professional development of teachers.

Written by experts involved in the teaching, training and examination of Media Studies, this one-stop resource is packed with illustrative case studies and exemplar schemes of work which can be easily adapted for your own needs. Suggested Reading and Recommended Resources sections at the end of each chapter list additional books, films, DVDs, groups, agencies, organisations, contact details, websites and other materials which will support your teaching even further.

The Media Teacher 's Handbook is an essential guide to the theory, pedagogy, and practice of media education that will enable you to teach your subject expertly and with confidence.

The Sound Handbook (Hardcover): Tim Crook The Sound Handbook (Hardcover)
Tim Crook; Series edited by James Curran
R3,923 Discovery Miles 39 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Tim Crook has written an important and much-needed book, and its arrival on our shelves has come at a highly appropriate time.' Professor Se n Street, Bournemouth University

The Sound Handbook maps theoretical and practical connections between the creation and study of sound across the multi-media spectrum of film, radio, music, sound art, websites, animation and computer games entertainment, and stage theatre.

Using a cross-disciplinary approach Tim Crook explores the technologies, philosophies and cultural issues involved in making and experiencing sound, investigating soundscape debates and providing both intellectual and creative production information. The book covers the history, theory and practice of sound and includes practical production projects and a glossary of key terms.

The Sound Handbook is supported by a companion website, signposted throughout the book, with further practical and theoretical resources dedicated to bridging the creation and study of sound across professional platforms and academic disciplines.

Global Television Formats - Understanding Television Across Borders (Hardcover): Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf Global Television Formats - Understanding Television Across Borders (Hardcover)
Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf
R4,383 Discovery Miles 43 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winner of the 2013 SCMS Best Edited Collection Award For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to media globalization. It re-examines dominant approaches and their legacies of global/local and center/periphery, and offers new directions for understanding television's contemporary incarnations. The chapters in this collection take up the format phenomena from around the globe, including the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe, South and West Africa, South and East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, North America, South America, and the Caribbean. Contributors address both little known examples and massive global hits ranging from the Idol franchise around the world, to telenovelas, dance competitions, sports programming, reality TV, quiz shows, sitcoms and more. Looking to global television formats as vital for various cultural meanings, relationships, and structures, this collection shows how formats can further our understanding of television and the culture of globalization at large.

Designing for Newspapers and Magazines (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Chris Frost Designing for Newspapers and Magazines (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Chris Frost
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A hugely beneficial introduction to students and professionals in print media and design, Designing for Newspapers and Magazines offers guidance on how to produce attractive publications and how to tailor them to their target audience using colour, text placement, typography and images,
Written by an experienced journalist and designer, the book details the elements of good design and provides instruction on how to get the most of computers and computer-aided design.
The book examines a broad range of local and national publications including The Sun, The Daily Mirror and Glamour magazine and explains the reasoning that underpins their design choice, including:

  • how to set up a new publication
  • planning an edition of a newspaper or magazine
  • typography and working with text
  • working with images and technical production
  • designing pages and how to use colour
  • design and journalism ethics
  • a glossary of journalistic and design terms
Crime (Hardcover): Sarah Casey Benyahia Crime (Hardcover)
Sarah Casey Benyahia
R3,175 Discovery Miles 31 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Crime films have, since the earliest days of cinema, been popular with audiences, industry and critics alike and encompassed a diverse range of subjects, styles and themes. The genre provides a range of pleasures for the spectator, from taking on the role of the detective in the pursuit of clues in the 'whodunit', to the more illicit thrills of identification with an anti hero. In the many incarnations of the crime film such as the gangster, film noir, political and detective thrillers, the genre explores the anxieties of different historical moments. Sarah Casey Benyahia provides an overview of the development of the crime film and examines the key theories and ideas involved in the study of the genre. These include; the investigative structure and narration of the crime film, the aesthetics of violence and issues of representation and ideology. These areas are explored through contemporary and classic, Hollywood and European cinema with case studies on the history of the genre, the role of the detective, the 'family crime' film and the conspiracy thriller. Crime provides a broad framework to the study of the genre through the introduction of narrative, genre and audience theories as well as detailed analysis of specific films. Films discussed include: Scarface (1932) Mildred Pierce (1945) Dirty Harry (1971) The Parallax View (1974) Reservoir Dogs (1992) Mystic River (2002) Hidden (2005) Gone Baby Gone (2007) Zodiac (2007) The Millennium Trilogy (2009) The Secret in Their Eyes (2010)

Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals) - Selected Writings (Hardcover): Raymond Williams Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals) - Selected Writings (Hardcover)
Raymond Williams
R4,214 Discovery Miles 42 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring, of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland, of hope for McGovern in the United States and attacks on the Wilson Labour Government in Britain. In The Listener articles Williams comments on all of these events, providing a rare glimpse not only into the events of his daily life but also into the continuing development of a personal sociology of culture. The articles also discuss such television forms as detective series, science programmes and sports, travelogue, education, gardening, and children's programming. The book also includes Williams' key lecture "Drama in a Dramatised Society", which sets a framework for his analysis; a London Review of Books piece on the Falklands/Malvinas adventure as a "tele-war"; and an interview with Williams on television and teaching. Cited by The Guardian as "The foremost political thinker of his generation", Williams' writing amounts to a primer on ways of watching television and of critiquing its profound social and political impact.

Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic - Framing Public Discourse (Paperback): Stuart Price, Ben Harbisher Power, Media and the Covid-19 Pandemic - Framing Public Discourse (Paperback)
Stuart Price, Ben Harbisher
R1,141 Discovery Miles 11 410 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This ground-breaking collection takes a determinedly critical perspective, drawing upon the observations of an international cohort of leading scholars who bring an 'activist' slant to the subject. The use of 'framing' theory, representation and the critical discourse tradition feature prominently in the Introduction, underpinned by more specific methods apposite for interpreting texts, narratives and actions (i.e. critical discourse analysis, online ethnographic enquiry, multimodal approaches, surveys, etc.). The first in-depth academic analysis of mediated responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, this collection is both a considered intervention in its own right, and a reference-point for future research.

Audio Production Worktext - Concepts, Techniques, and Equipment (Paperback, 10th edition): Samuel Sauls, Craig Stark Audio Production Worktext - Concepts, Techniques, and Equipment (Paperback, 10th edition)
Samuel Sauls, Craig Stark
R1,569 Discovery Miles 15 690 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Now in its tenth edition, the Audio Production Worktext offers a comprehensive introduction to audio production in radio, television, and film. This hands-on, student-friendly text demonstrates how to navigate modern radio production studios and utilize the latest equipment and software. Key chapters address production planning, the use of microphones, audio consoles, and sound production for the visual media. The reader is shown the reality of audio production both within the studio and on location. New to this edition is material covering podcasting, including online storage and distribution. The new edition also includes an updated glossary and appendix on analog and original digital applications, as well as self-study questions and projects that students can use to further enhance their learning. The accompanying instructor website has been refreshed and includes an instructor's manual and PowerPoint images. This book remains an essential text for audio and media production students seeking a thorough introduction to the field.

Esports Insights (Hardcover): Emily Hayday, Holly Collison-Randall, Sarah Kelly Esports Insights (Hardcover)
Emily Hayday, Holly Collison-Randall, Sarah Kelly
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Esports Insights outlines the fundamental characteristics, features, and structures of the rapidly growing esports industry and acts as the perfect primer for readers without any prior knowledge of esports. Featuring international case studies in every chapter, this book showcases the contemporary nature of esports through illustrative, industry examples. By offering a concise and easy to understand introduction, it discusses the key components, stakeholders, and features of this commercially driven sector, which by its very nature is dynamic and highly complex. Exploring current regulatory and governance structures within esports, it unpacks the industry's essential features by outlining the various genres, formats and stakeholders who are instrumental to the functioning of the esports industry. Adopting a critical but balanced analysis, the book discusses the social benefits of esports, outlining its potential as a tool for social inclusion and sport development, whilst acknowledging the potential impacts and risks of esports participation and spectatorship, related to health and wellbeing. Finally, Esports Insights also considers future developments and changes within esports, as the sector evolves and continues to professionalise. This book will be of interest to any student, researcher, or practitioner with an interest in sport business, sport and society, event studies, esports or video gaming, or the wider media industry.

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