Maire Messenger Davies Davies Mire Messenger Davies
Based on a study examining the meaning of the term media literacy in children, this volume concentrates on audiovisual narratives of television and film and their effects. It examines children's concepts of real and unreal and how they learn to make distinctions between the two. It also explores the idea that children are protected from the harmful effects of violence on television by the knowledge that what they see is not real.
Based on a study examining the meaning of the term media literacy in children, this volume concentrates on audiovisual narratives of television and fi...
Many very intelligent people don't like dealing with numbers. Similarly, many gifted scientists are not especially interested in studying people and their cultural behavior. In this book, we argue that being interested in people and their cultures, and helping students and others to use numbers to pursue these interests, are not mutually exclusive. Research methods are becoming an increasingly important requirement for students of all kinds. But many students, particularly those in the humanities, struggle with concepts drawn from the social sciences and find quantitative and statistical...
Many very intelligent people don't like dealing with numbers. Similarly, many gifted scientists are not especially interested in studying people an...
Deals with the process of conducting research in humanities, with reference to media and culture, from the planning stage, through the data gathering, to the analysis and interpretation of results. This book aims to show how the choice of research topic ca
Deals with the process of conducting research in humanities, with reference to media and culture, from the planning stage, through the data gathering,...
Deals with the process of conducting research in humanities, with reference to media and culture, from the planning stage, through the data gathering, to the analysis and interpretation of results. This book aims to show how the choice of research topic ca
Deals with the process of conducting research in humanities, with reference to media and culture, from the planning stage, through the data gathering,...
Pearson, Roberta; Davies, Máire Messenger; Stewart, Patrick
At the heart of one of the most successful transmedia franchises of all time, Star Trek, lies an initially unsuccessful 1960s television production, Star Trek: The Original Series. In Star Trek and American Television, Pearson and Messenger Davies, take their cue from the words of the program's first captain, William Shatner, in an interview with the authors: "It's a television show." In focusing on Star Trek as a television show, the authors argue that the program has to be seen in the context of the changing economic conditions of American television throughout...
At the heart of one of the most successful transmedia franchises of all time, Star Trek, lies an initially unsuccessful 1960s television produc...
