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Critical Communication Review - Volume 3: Popular Culture and Media Events (Hardcover): Vincent Mosco, Janet Wasko Critical Communication Review - Volume 3: Popular Culture and Media Events (Hardcover)
Vincent Mosco, Janet Wasko; Vincent Mosco, Janet Wasko
R2,799 Discovery Miles 27 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Communication and Democracy (Hardcover): Slavko Splichal, Janet Wasko Communication and Democracy (Hardcover)
Slavko Splichal, Janet Wasko
R2,245 Discovery Miles 22 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 1980s witnessed a rapid growth of communication technology and an immense expansion of new media around the globe. The development of new information and communication technologies has emphasized again the importance of economic, social, political, and cultural institutions associated with the definitions of new technologies. Many of the traditional conceptions of the relation of the media to democracy were predicated upon a certain perception of communication technology and the major contemporary debates related to democratization have to do, again, with the deployment of technologies. How do all these developments affect society? How is the communications explosion related to democracy? What are the implications for the social functions of communications, people's activities, consciousness and values, media ownership and control, both nationally and internationally? These are some of the questions discussed in this volume.

Critical Communications Review - Volume 2: Changing Patterns of Communication Control (Hardcover): Vincent Mosco, Janet Wasko Critical Communications Review - Volume 2: Changing Patterns of Communication Control (Hardcover)
Vincent Mosco, Janet Wasko
R2,808 Discovery Miles 28 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Illuminating the Blindspots - Essays Honoring Dallas W. Smythe (Hardcover, New): Janet Wasko, Vincent Mosco, Manjunath Pendakur Illuminating the Blindspots - Essays Honoring Dallas W. Smythe (Hardcover, New)
Janet Wasko, Vincent Mosco, Manjunath Pendakur
R2,838 Discovery Miles 28 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dallas W. Smythe has made important contributions to the study of the political economy of communications, as well as to the critical study of communication and information. His work has probed the neglected corners of the academic study of communication research, challenging and inspiring students and researchers for nearly 50 years. Celebrating Dallas Smythe, this volume includes 19 articles that draw on his work and furthur challenge existing communications structures and policies. The contributions examine case studies of the political economy of communication and information from various perspectives as well as exploring international communications issues and media/audience analysis.

LIFE - A Transdisciplinary Inquiry: Jeremy Swartz, Janet Wasko LIFE - A Transdisciplinary Inquiry
Jeremy Swartz, Janet Wasko
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry examines nature, cognition and society as an interwoven tapestry across disciplinary boundaries. This volume explores how information and communication are instrumental in and for living systems, acknowledging an integrative account of media as environments and technologies. The aim of the collection is a fuller and richer account of everyday life through a spectrum of insights from internationally known scholars of the natural sciences (physical and life sciences), social sciences and the arts. How or should life be defined? If life is a medium, how is it mediated? Viewed as interactions, transactions and contexts of ecosystems, life can be recognized through patterns across the sciences, including metabolisms, habitats and lifeworlds. The book also integrates discussions of embodiment, ecological values, literacies and critiques, with bioinspired, synthetic and historical design approaches to envision what could constitute artful living in an ever-evolving, interdependent world. The volume foregrounds systemic approaches to life, drawing on a wide range of disciplines and fields, including architecture, art, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, cinema studies, communication, computer science, conservation, cultural studies, design, ecology, environmental studies, information science, landscape architecture, geography, journalism, materials science, media archaeology, media studies, philosophy, physics, plant signalling and development, political economy, sociology and system dynamics. This is the second volume in the Media-Life-Universe trilogy. It follows and builds upon the 2021 collection MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry.  

Global Media Giants (Paperback): Janet Wasko, Benjamin Birkinbine, Rodrigo Gomez Global Media Giants (Paperback)
Janet Wasko, Benjamin Birkinbine, Rodrigo Gomez
R1,800 Discovery Miles 18 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News Corp., The Microsoft Corporation) in terms of revenues, but also media corporations that hold considerable power within national, regional, or geolinguistic contexts (Televisa, The Bertelsmann Group, Sony Corporation). Each chapter approaches a different corporation through the lens of economy, politics, and culture, giving students and scholars a thoughtful and data-driven guide with which to interrogate contemporary media industry power.

LIFE - A Transdisciplinary Inquiry (New edition): Jeremy Swartz, Janet Wasko LIFE - A Transdisciplinary Inquiry (New edition)
Jeremy Swartz, Janet Wasko
R3,206 Discovery Miles 32 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry examines nature, cognition and society as an interwoven tapestry across disciplinary boundaries. This volume explores how information and communication are instrumental in and for living systems, acknowledging an integrative account of media as environments and technologies. The aim of the collection is a fuller and richer account of everyday life through a spectrum of insights from internationally known scholars of the natural sciences (physical and life sciences), social sciences and the arts. How or should life be defined? If life is a medium, how is it mediated? Viewed as interactions, transactions and contexts of ecosystems, life can be recognized through patterns across the sciences, including metabolisms, habitats and lifeworlds. The book also integrates discussions of embodiment, ecological values, literacies and critiques, with bioinspired, synthetic and historical design approaches to envision what could constitute artful living in an ever-evolving, interdependent world. The volume foregrounds systemic approaches to life, drawing on a wide range of disciplines and fields, including architecture, art, biology, bioengineering, chemistry, cinema studies, communication, computer science, conservation, cultural studies, design, ecology, environmental studies, information science, landscape architecture, geography, journalism, materials science, media archaeology, media studies, philosophy, physics, plant signalling and development, political economy, sociology and system dynamics. This is the second volume in the Media-Life-Universe trilogy. It follows and builds upon the 2021 collection MEDIA: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry.  

Global Media Giants (Hardcover): Janet Wasko, Benjamin Birkinbine, Rodrigo Gomez Global Media Giants (Hardcover)
Janet Wasko, Benjamin Birkinbine, Rodrigo Gomez
R6,018 Discovery Miles 60 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Global Media Giants takes an in-depth look at how media corporate power works globally, regionally, and nationally, investigating the ways in which the largest and most powerful media corporations in the world wield power. Case studies examine not only some of the largest media corporations (News Corp., The Microsoft Corporation) in terms of revenues, but also media corporations that hold considerable power within national, regional, or geolinguistic contexts (Televisa, The Bertelsmann Group, Sony Corporation). Each chapter approaches a different corporation through the lens of economy, politics, and culture, giving students and scholars a thoughtful and data-driven guide with which to interrogate contemporary media industry power.

MEDIA - A Transdisciplinary Inquiry (Hardcover): Jeremy Swartz, Janet Wasko MEDIA - A Transdisciplinary Inquiry (Hardcover)
Jeremy Swartz, Janet Wasko
R2,351 Discovery Miles 23 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The first in the Media-Life-Universe trilogy, this volume explores a transdisciplinary notion of media and technology, exploring media as technology, with special attention to its material, historical and ecological ramifications. The authors reconceptualize media from environmental, ecological and systems approaches, drawing not only on media and communication studies, but also philosophy, sociology, political science, biology, art, computer science, information studies and other disciplines. Featuring a group of internationally known scholars, this collection explores evolving definitions of media and how media technologies are transforming theory and practice. As the current media includes a wider and wider range of concepts, products, services and institutions, the definition of media continues to be in a state of flux. What are media today? How is media studies evolving? How have technologies transformed communication and media theory, and informed praxis? What are some of the futures of media? The collection challenges traditional notions of media, as well as concepts such as freedom of expression, audience empowerment and participatory media, and explores emergent media including transmedia, virtual reality, online games, metatechnology, remediation and makerspaces. The book's primary readership will be academics, scholars and students in media and communication studies, including a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses in media studies, communication studies and new media. Suitable for classroom use in the areas of philosophy of communication and media, media theory, media ecology, cultural studies, media archaeology, feminist studies and political economy of communications and media.

Illuminating the Blindspots - Essays Honoring Dallas W Smythe (Paperback, New): Janet Wasko, Vincent Mosco, Manjunath Pendakur Illuminating the Blindspots - Essays Honoring Dallas W Smythe (Paperback, New)
Janet Wasko, Vincent Mosco, Manjunath Pendakur
R1,984 Discovery Miles 19 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dallas W. Smythe has made important contributions to the study of the political economy of communications, as well as to the critical study of communication and information. His work has probed the neglected corners of the academic study of communication research, challenging and inspiring students and researchers for nearly 50 years. Celebrating Dallas Smythe, this volume includes 19 articles that draw on his work and furthur challenge existing communications structures and policies. The contributions examine case studies of the political economy of communication and information from various perspectives as well as exploring international communications issues and media/audience analysis.

Communication and Democracy (Paperback): Slavko Splichal, Janet Wasko Communication and Democracy (Paperback)
Slavko Splichal, Janet Wasko
R1,403 Discovery Miles 14 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The 1980s witnessed a rapid growth of communication technology and an immense expansion of new media around the globe. The development of new information and communication technologies has emphasized again the importance of economic, social, political, and cultural institutions associated with the definitions of new technologies. Many of the traditional conceptions of the relation of the media to democracy were predicated upon a certain perception of communication technology and the major contemporary debates related to democratization have to do, again, with the deployment of technologies. How do all these developments affect society? How is the communications explosion related to democracy? What are the implications for the social functions of communications, people's activities, consciousness and values, media ownership and control, both nationally and internationally? These are some of the questions discussed in this volume.

The Political Economy of Information (Paperback): Vincent Mosco, Janet Wasko The Political Economy of Information (Paperback)
Vincent Mosco, Janet Wasko
R380 Discovery Miles 3 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The ""information society"" is real. Information - as a marketable commodity - is quickly taking up the powerful role once held by heavy industry and manufactured products. How this revolution is affecting society, and how both society and government are responding to it, is the subject of this book. Every dimension of social life, whether in the home or the workplace, is affected by information and the technologies that shape it into a marketable commodity. Along with the positive aspects of these broad changes, there are inevitable problems: the growing gap between the information rich and poor, the need for widespread access to communication and information technology, the threat to privacy, and the potential of the technology to create global instabilities. The editors have enlisted specialists and scholars in business, communication studies, computing and information science, economics, law, library science, political science, and sociology to examine these changes and problems by looking at information specifically as a commodity. The book begins with chapters on ways of seeing and thinking about information in the light of developments in computer communication technology. The ability of the technology to measure and monitor information transactions and to package and repackage information products leads to fresh views on the nature of industrial society, perhaps leading to the development of what Robins and Webster refer to as ""cybernetic capitalism"". These theoretical chapters are followed by studies that identify and examine specific problems in the political economy of information. These include how business is making information a marketable commodity, how government is responding to this development, the implications for access to information, privacy, social class divisions, and specific impacts on the home and workplace. The concluding chapters consider the global significance of transforming information into a marketable product with specific studies on Europe, Asia, and the efforts of Third World nations to overcome disparities in the information society.

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