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Media in Egypt and Tunisia: From Control to Transition? (Hardcover): E. Webb Media in Egypt and Tunisia: From Control to Transition? (Hardcover)
E. Webb
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A year after popular uprisings overthrew dictators in Egypt and Tunisia, a former diplomat and press officer travelled to Cairo and Tunis to interview local journalists and learn about both their experiences under the previous regimes and how they were navigating the political transitions. Based on these conversations, the resulting study explains the shifting red lines under the Mubarak and Ben Ali regimes, examining how these lines were enforced and how the regimes manipulated media to manufacture popular acquiescence or apathy.

Jewish Serials of the World - A Research Bibliography of Secondary Sources (Hardcover): Robert Singerman Jewish Serials of the World - A Research Bibliography of Secondary Sources (Hardcover)
Robert Singerman
R2,418 Discovery Miles 24 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the pioneering work in its field, Jewish Serials of the World brings together a diverse body of literature essential to the study of the Jewish press from 1674 to the present. It identifies pertinent primary source materials and provides comprehensive coverage of the secondary literature in a field where no bibliographical control has ever existed. Arranged for the most part geographically, the citations include descriptions of significant publications of books, pamphlets, theses and articles, as well as jubilee issues of Jewish newspapers and magazines. In addition to internal cross-references, the work also contains subject and author indexes.

Black Women and Popular Culture - The Conversation Continues (Hardcover): Adria Y. Goldman, Vanatta S Ford, Alexa A. Harris,... Black Women and Popular Culture - The Conversation Continues (Hardcover)
Adria Y. Goldman, Vanatta S Ford, Alexa A. Harris, Natasha R. Howard; Contributions by Robin M Boylorn, …
R2,934 Discovery Miles 29 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With the emergence of popular culture phenomena, such as reality television, blogging, and social networking sites, it is important to examine the representation of Black women and the potential implications of those images, messages, and roles. Black Women and Popular Culture: The Conversation Continues provides such a comprehensive analysis. Using an array of theoretical frameworks and methodologies, this anthology features cutting edge research from several scholars interested in the relationship among media, society, perceptions, and Black women. The uniqueness of this book is that it serves as a compilation of hot topics such as ABC s Scandal, Beyonce s Visual Album, and Oprah s Instagram page. Other themes explored are rooted in reality television, film, and hip hop, as well as issues of gender politics, domestic violence, and colorism. The discussion also extends to the presentation and inclusion of Black women in advertising, print, and digital media."

Digital Leisure, the Internet and Popular Culture - Communities and Identities in a Digital Age (Hardcover): Karl Spracklen Digital Leisure, the Internet and Popular Culture - Communities and Identities in a Digital Age (Hardcover)
Karl Spracklen
R2,562 R1,808 Discovery Miles 18 080 Save R754 (29%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Spracklen explores the impact of the internet on leisure and leisure studies, examining the ways in which digital leisure spaces and activities have become part of everyday leisure. Covering a range of issues from social media and file-sharing to romance on the Internet, this book presents new theoretical directions for digital leisure.

Extremism in the Digital Era - The Media Discourse of Terrorist Groups in the Middle East (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Adib... Extremism in the Digital Era - The Media Discourse of Terrorist Groups in the Middle East (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Adib Abdulmajid
R3,283 Discovery Miles 32 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book constitutes a journey into the obscure field of sectarian-guided discourses of radical Islamist groups. It provides new insights into the ideological mechanisms utilized by such organizations to incite sectarian conflicts and recruit local and foreign guardians to their alleged cause. This book examines diverse aspects and dimensions of the discourses of Sunni-based ISIS and Shia-based al-Hashd al-Shaabi and explores manipulative and ideological discursive strategies utilized by media outlets associated with these groups. It delves into linguistic and contextual activities, implicit and explicit messages within the discourses of various media outlets operating in the heart of the Middle East. It also scrutinizes and explains aspects of politicization, religionization and sectarianization within the media discourse of terrorist groups in the digital era.

Uncertainty of Communication Interpreting Global Social Media Communication in a Way of Philosophy of Science (Hardcover): Dong... Uncertainty of Communication Interpreting Global Social Media Communication in a Way of Philosophy of Science (Hardcover)
Dong Chao
R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Monstrous-Feminine - Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Paperback, 2nd edition): Barbara Creed The Monstrous-Feminine - Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Barbara Creed
R1,132 Discovery Miles 11 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Monstrous Feminine is one of the most influential books to emerge in the early 90s In this new edition, Creed does it again, recontextualizing the conception of the monstrous-feminine to track many of the evolutions in the horror genre This updated edition includes an entirely new section examining contemporary feminist horror films in relation to nonhuman theory Barbara Creed’s classic remains as relevant as ever

Aging, Media, and Culture (Hardcover): C.Lee Harrington, Denise Bielby, Anthony R. Bardo Aging, Media, and Culture (Hardcover)
C.Lee Harrington, Denise Bielby, Anthony R. Bardo; Contributions by Rebecca G. Adams, Anne L Balazs, …
R2,851 Discovery Miles 28 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a common interest in the future study of aging and media. This anthology of original articles integrates aging theory and media studies through a study of core issues including the media's influence on the construction of "old age," the reciprocal influence of aging on media industries, age-based identities in a mediated world, issues of gender and sexuality in an aging society, and the practical implications of a more integrated approach between the two fields. The chapters explore the intersections between aging and media in the realms of advertising/marketing, television, film, music, celebrity and social media, among others.

The Theory of the Social Practice of Information (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Francesco Fattorello The Theory of the Social Practice of Information (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Francesco Fattorello; Translated by Maria Way; Contributions by Giuseppe Ragnetti
R1,730 Discovery Miles 17 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this book, Fattorello addresses the differences between contingent and non-contingent information. The theory is translated into English for the first time and is contextualized and put into a historical framework by Prof. Ragnetti's additional text.

The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy - How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics (Paperback): Scott Welsh The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy - How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics (Paperback)
Scott Welsh
R1,234 Discovery Miles 12 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Citizens, political theorists, and politicians alike insist that political or partisan motives get in the way of real democracy. Real democracy, we are convinced, is embodied by an ability to form collective judgments in the interest of the whole. The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics, by Scott Welsh, argues instead that it is our easy rejection of political motives, individual interests, and the rhetorical pursuit of power that poses the greatest danger to democracy. Our rejection of politics understood as a rhetorical contest for power is dangerous because democracy ultimately rests upon the perceived public legitimacy of public, political challenges to authority and the subsequent reconstitution of authority amid the impossibility of collective judgment. Hence, rather than searching for allegedly more authentic democracy, rooted in the pursuit of ever-illusive collective judgments, we must find ways to come to terms with the persistence of rhetorical, political contests for power as the essence of democracy itself. Welsh argues that the impossibility of any kind of public judgment is the fact that democracy must face. Given the impossibility of public judgment, rhetorical competitions for political power are not merely poor substitutes for an allegedly more authentic democratic practice, but constitute the essence of democracy itself. The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy is an iconoclastic investigation of the democratic process and public discourse.

Discursive Constructions of Corporate Identities by Chinese Banks on Sina Weibo - An Integrated Sociolinguistics Approach... Discursive Constructions of Corporate Identities by Chinese Banks on Sina Weibo - An Integrated Sociolinguistics Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Wei Feng
R1,473 Discovery Miles 14 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book addresses the discursive construction of corporate identities in social media on the part of Chinese corporations, particularly highlighting how followers of corporate social media co-create corporate identities during firm-follower interactions. Toward this end, it pursues an integrated sociolinguistics approach combining e.g. thematic analysis, interactional analysis and in-depth interviews. Readers will also find extensive information on the brand-new dialogic framework of corporate identity formation. The book offers an insightful and revealing guide for both practitioners/trainers and teachers in corporate communication who are faced with the challenges of managing public relations and corporate images in the age of social media. It can also serve as a valuable case study for those readers who are fascinated by the Chinese economy and discourse analysis of the Chinese language.

Location-Based Social Media - Space, Time and Identity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Leighton Evans, Michael Saker Location-Based Social Media - Space, Time and Identity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Leighton Evans, Michael Saker
R1,589 Discovery Miles 15 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book extends current understandings of the effects of using locative social media on spatiality, the experience of time and identity. This is a pertinent and timely topic given the increase in opportunities people now have to explicitly and implicitly share their location through digital and mobile technologies. There is a growing body of research on locative media, much of this literature has concentrated on spatial issues. Research here has explored how locative media and location-based social media (LBSN) are used to communicate and coordinate social interactions in public space, affecting how people approach their surroundings, turning ordinary life "into a game", and altering how mobile media is involved in understanding the world. This book offers a critical analysis of the effect of usage of locative social media on identity through an engagement with the current literature on spatiality, a novel critical investigation of the temporal effects of LBSN use and a view of identity as influenced by the spatio-temporal effects of interacting with place through LBSN. Drawing on phenomenology, post-phenomenology and critical theory on social and locative media, alongside established sociological frameworks for approaching spatiality and the city, it presents a comprehensive account of the effects of LBSN and locative media use.

The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Kresimir Purgar The Palgrave Handbook of Image Studies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Kresimir Purgar
R5,951 Discovery Miles 59 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This handbook brings together the most current and hotly debated topics in studies about images today. In the first part, the book gives readers an historical overview and basic diacronical explanation of the term image, including the ways it has been used in different periods throughout history. In the second part, the fundamental concepts that have to be mastered should one wish to enter into the emerging field of Image Studies are explained. In the third part, readers will find analysis of the most common subjects and topics pertaining to images. In the fourth part, the book explains how existing disciplines relate to Image Studies and how this new scholarly field may be constructed using both old and new approaches and insights. The fifth chapter is dedicated to contemporary thinkers and is the first time that theses of the most prominent scholars of Image Studies are critically analyzed and presented in one place.

Communication: Innovation & Quality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Miguel Tunez Lopez, Valentin Alejandro Martinez Fernandez, Xose... Communication: Innovation & Quality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Miguel Tunez Lopez, Valentin Alejandro Martinez Fernandez, Xose Lopez Garcia, Xose Ruas Araujo, Francisco Campos Freire
R2,886 Discovery Miles 28 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the disruptive changes in the media ecosystem caused by convergence and digitization, and analyses innovation processes in content production, distribution and commercialisation. It has been edited by Professors Miguel Tunez-Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Valentin-Alejandro Martinez-Fernandez (Universidade da Coruna, Spain), Xose Lopez-Garcia (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Xose Ruas-Araujo (Universidade de Vigo, Spain) and Francisco Campos-Freire (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain). The book includes contributions from European and American experts, who offer their views on the audiovisual sector, journalism and cyberjournalism, corporate and institutional communication, and education. It particularly highlights the role of new technologies, the Internet and social media, including the ethics and legal dimensions. With 30 contributions, grouped into diverse chapters, on information preferences and uses in journalism, as well as public audiovisual policies in the European Union, related to governance, funding, accountability, innovation, quality and public service, it provides a reliable media resource and presents lines of future development.

A New History of British Documentary (Hardcover): J. Chapman A New History of British Documentary (Hardcover)
J. Chapman
R2,937 R1,902 Discovery Miles 19 020 Save R1,035 (35%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. It covers both the film and television industries and demonstrates how documentary practice has adapted to changing institutional and ideological contexts.

For ALL the People - Redeeming the Broken Promises of Modern Media and Reclaiming Our Civic Life (Paperback): Deval Patrick For ALL the People - Redeeming the Broken Promises of Modern Media and Reclaiming Our Civic Life (Paperback)
Deval Patrick; Michael Slaby
R469 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R76 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Regional Aesthetics - Mapping UK Media Cultures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Hugh Chignell, Ieuan Franklin, Kristin Skoog Regional Aesthetics - Mapping UK Media Cultures (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Hugh Chignell, Ieuan Franklin, Kristin Skoog
R1,473 Discovery Miles 14 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is about forms of media that have reflected or increased consciousness of - a sense of place or a regional identity. From landscape painting in the Romantic era to newspaper coverage of devolution, the chapters explore, through contextualized case studies, the aesthetics of a wide range of local, regional and grassroots forms of media.

The Transnational Voices of Australia's Migrant and Minority Press (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Catherine Dewhirst, Richard... The Transnational Voices of Australia's Migrant and Minority Press (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Catherine Dewhirst, Richard Scully
R1,481 Discovery Miles 14 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited collection invites the reader to enter the diverse worlds of Australia's migrant and minority communities through the latest research on the contemporary printed press, spanning the mid-nineteenth century to our current day. With a focus on the rare, radical and foreign-language print culture of multiple and frequently concurrent minority groups' newspaper ventures, this volume has two overarching aims: firstly to demonstrate how the local experiences and narratives of such communities are always forged and negotiated within a context of globalising forces - the global within the local; and secondly to enrich an understanding of the complexity of Australian 'voices' through this medium not only as a means for appreciating how the cultural heritage of such communities were sustained, but also for exploring their contributions to the wider society.

The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture (Hardcover): Richard Stivers The Media Creates Us in Its Image and Other Essays on Technology and Culture (Hardcover)
Richard Stivers
R1,168 R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Save R228 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Functional Analysis of Political Television Advertisements (Hardcover): William L. Benoit A Functional Analysis of Political Television Advertisements (Hardcover)
William L. Benoit
R2,649 Discovery Miles 26 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Functional Analysis of Political Television Advertisements examines theory and research on election advertisements. William Benoit employs the Functional Theory of Political Campaign Discourse to understand the nature or content of television spots in election campaigns. Beginning with a look at American presidential spots from 1952-2012, Benoit investigates the three functions-acclaims, attacks, and defenses-and the topics of policy and character for these groups of political commercials. The following chapters are devoted to reporting similar data on presidential primary advertisements, presidential third party spots, other theories including Issue Ownership Theory and Functional Federalism Theory, as well as nonpresidential and non-U.S. election advertising. Benoit considers the data, discusses the development of political advertising over time, and finally, presents areas for further research. This book is a uniquely comprehensive examination of the value and use of television spots in political election rhetoric.

Videostyle in Presidential Campaigns - Style and Content of Televised Political Advertising (Hardcover, New): Anne Johnston,... Videostyle in Presidential Campaigns - Style and Content of Televised Political Advertising (Hardcover, New)
Anne Johnston, Lynda Kaid
R2,705 Discovery Miles 27 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since 1952, when Eisenhower's media consultants decided they could warm up the General's personality and overcome selective exposure by using short spots on television, advertising has played a major role in American presidential campaigns. By the late 1990s, candidates and their political parties spend hundreds of millions on TV ads. Political spots have become the dominant form of communication between voters and candidates.

Kaid and Johnston report the results of a systematic and thorough analysis of virtually all of the political commercials used in general election campaigns from 1952 through the 1996 presidential contest. Important to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with political communications, mass communications, and presidential elections.

Feminist Activism and Digital Networks - Between Empowerment and Vulnerability (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Aristea Fotopoulou Feminist Activism and Digital Networks - Between Empowerment and Vulnerability (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Aristea Fotopoulou
R3,200 Discovery Miles 32 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book sheds new light on the way that, in the last decade, digital technologies have become inextricably linked to culture, economy and politics and how they have transformed feminist and queer activism. This exciting text critically analyses the contradictions, tensions and often-paradoxical aspects that characterize such politics, both in relation to identity and to activist practice. Aristea Fotopoulou examines how activists make claims about rights online, and how they negotiate access, connectivity, openness and visibility in digital networks. Through a triple focus on embodied media practices, labour and imaginaries, and across the themes of bodily autonomy, pornography, reproduction, and queer social life, she advocates a move away from understandings of digital media technologies as intrinsically exploitative or empowering. By reinstating the media as constant material agents in the process of politicization, Fotopoulou creates a powerful text that appeals to students and scholars of digital media, gender and sexuality, and readers interested in the role of media technologies in activism.

Global News Access - The Impact of New Communications Technologies (Hardcover): Carla B Johnston Global News Access - The Impact of New Communications Technologies (Hardcover)
Carla B Johnston
R2,701 Discovery Miles 27 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fascination with satellite television and Internet technology has become an obsession. People throughout the world watch television and believe what they see and hear--without realizing that pictures are selected and stories are sometimes distorted. Concurrently, the world's elite are drawn to the increasing availability of news on the Internet, effectively widening the gap between those who have and do not have access to the new technologies. This analysis of the worldwide impact of new communications technologies shows how ordinary citizens can protect themselves from media brainwashing. Interviews from across the globe shed light on this dynamic and on the roles of viewers as victims or victors in different situations. This is a book for the media professional; students and scholars in the fields of journalism, communications, political science, international relations, and business; as well as for government officials and concerned citizens who do not want to be controlled by the media.

The Politics of Adaptation - Media Convergence and Ideology (Hardcover): D. Hassler-Forest, P. Nicklas The Politics of Adaptation - Media Convergence and Ideology (Hardcover)
D. Hassler-Forest, P. Nicklas
R2,806 Discovery Miles 28 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the age of globalization, digitization, and media convergence, traditional hierarchies between media are breaking down. This book offers new approaches to understanding the politics and their underlying ideologies that are reshaping our global media landscape, including questions of audience participation and transmedia storytelling.

Policy Practice and Digital Science - Integrating Complex Systems, Social Simulation and Public Administration in Policy... Policy Practice and Digital Science - Integrating Complex Systems, Social Simulation and Public Administration in Policy Research (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Marijn Janssen, Maria A. Wimmer, Ameneh Deljoo
R5,465 Discovery Miles 54 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The explosive growth in data, computational power, and social media creates new opportunities for innovating the processes and solutions of Information and communications technology (ICT) based policy-making and research. To take advantage of these developments in the digital world, new approaches, concepts, instruments and methods are needed to navigate the societal and computational complexity. This requires extensive interdisciplinary knowledge of public administration, policy analyses, information systems, complex systems and computer science. This book provides the foundation for this new interdisciplinary field, in which various traditional disciplines are blending. Both policy makers, executors and those in charge of policy implementations acknowledge that ICT is becoming more important and is changing the policy-making process, resulting in a next generation policy-making based on ICT support. Web 2.0 and even Web 3.0 point to the specific applications of social networks, semantically enriched and linked data, whereas policy-making has also to do with the use of the vast amount of data, predictions and forecasts, and improving the outcomes of policy-making, which is confronted with an increasing complexity and uncertainty of the outcomes. The field of policy-making is changing and driven by developments like open data, computational methods for processing data, opining mining, simulation and visualization of rich data sets, all combined with public engagement, social media and participatory tools.

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