Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Journalism

This compelling book explores how Egyptian bloggers used citizen journalism and cyberactivism to chip away at the state's monopoly on information and recalibrate the power dynamics between an authoritarian regime and its citizens.

The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language clusters within this language family.

With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized language groups and includes most of the major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent.

Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive, single-volume tome presents in depth discussions of the historical development...

Opinion Polls and the Media provides the most comprehensive analysis to date on the relationship between the media, opinion polls, and public opinion. Looking at the extent to which the media, through their use of opinion polls, both reflect and shape public opinion, it brings together a team of leading scholars and analyzes theoretical and methodological approaches to the media and their use of opinion polls. The contributors explore how the media use opinion polls in a range of countries across the world, and analyze the effects and uses of opinion polls by the public as well as political...

Evangelia Psychogiopoulou brings together distinguished scholars across a range of academic disciplines to investigate the media's freedom and independence, and the media policy processes, institutional spaces, regulatory practices and instruments that can support the development of free and independent media in Europe.

What links the interviews with Saddam Hussein and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on British and American TV, the chase of journalists following mega-terrorists, and the new status conferred on ordinary people at war? Transforming Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts offers a timely and original discussion on the shift in war journalism in recent years.

Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance provides an overview of new and traditional media in their political, economic and cultural contexts while exploring the role of journalism practice and media education. The authors examine media systems in 16 countries, including China, Russia and the United States.

Contributors from diverse backgrounds explore a range of issues in relation to the media and journalism's role in ascribing meaning to tourism practices. This fascinating account offers a thoroughly international and interdisciplinary perspective on an increasingly important field of journalism scholarship.

The business models of traditional media are experiencing a profound crisis. One of the core issues of this crisis is the increasing breakdown of the value chain model a model based on the numbers of readers, viewers, and users which the mass media can -sell- in exchange for advertising revenue.
These formerly stable models of the media value chain are now in perpetual flux, requiring adaptation to the rapid changes in technology and the volatility of user preferences.
Can media companies cope with these new circumstances and at the same time fulfill their traditional roles?
This...

The business models of traditional media are experiencing a profound crisis. One of the core issues of this crisis is the increasing breakdown of the value chain model a model based on the numbers of readers, viewers, and users which the mass media can -sell- in exchange for advertising revenue.
These formerly stable models of the media value chain are now in perpetual flux, requiring adaptation to the rapid changes in technology and the volatility of user preferences.
Can media companies cope with these new circumstances and at the same time fulfill their traditional roles?
This...

With two comprehensive writing models, Scott A Kuehn and Andrew Lingwall help readers to develop the essential writing skills and professional habits needed to succeed in 21st-century media careers.

Der Band analysiert dokumentarische Formen des Films, die in aktuellen Medienkulturen eine zunehmend wichtigere Rolle spielen und fur die Kommunikation in modernen Gesellschaften massgeblich verantwortlich sind. Durch neue Technologien und veranderte Formen der Produktion, Distribution und Rezeption sowie innovative asthetische Konzepte kommt es zu einer Ausdifferenzierung der dokumentarischen Praktiken in ihren jeweiligen Medienkulturen, die nicht zuletzt auch das Verstandnis dessen verandern, was unter dokumentarischen Filmen jeweils zu verstehen ist. Diese Entwicklungen werfen Fragen auf,...

From the inimitable New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross--"a collection of her most luminous New Yorker pieces" (Entertainment Weekly, grade: A).

A staff writer for The New Yorker since 1945, Lillian Ross is one of the few journalists who worked for both the magazine's founding editor, Harold Ross, and its current editor, David Remnick. She "made journalistic history by pioneering the kind of novelistic nonfiction that inspired later work" (The New York Times).

Reporting Always is a collection of Ross's iconic New Yorker profiles...

Are you a beaver cleaver or the office bike? Would you rather pack fudge or munch carpet? Do you content yourself with paddling the pickle as you're still a cherry boy?

Sex Slang will not only give you 3,000 words to talk about your favourite pastimes, but also open your eyes to practices you didn't even know existed.

All words are illustrated by a reference from a variety of sources to prove their existence. This naughty book will give you a spectacular sexual vocabulary from all over the English speaking world, as well as hours of reading...

Letras Hispanicas en la Gran Pantalla is an innovative textbook for advanced students of Hispanic studies, which merges the studies of canonical literary works and their film adaptions.

Students are guided through key literary masterpieces spanning from the Renaissance to the present day while, at the same time, interpreting their film versions. This parallel approach encourages students to develop their analytical skills as they master the terminology of contemporary studies in literature and cinema.

Exploring complete works by both male and female...

Letras Hispanicas en la Gran Pantalla is an innovative textbook for advanced students of Hispanic studies, which merges the studies of canonical literary works and their film adaptions.

Students are guided through key literary masterpieces spanning from the Renaissance to the present day while, at the same time, interpreting their film versions. This parallel approach encourages students to develop their analytical skills as they master the terminology of contemporary studies in literature and cinema.

Exploring complete works by both male and female...

Das Erzahlen ist in allen Bereichen der Gesellschaft unentbehrlich, um etwas mitzuteilen, um auf andere einzuwirken, um Wirklichkeit zu erfassen. Seit dem vielberufenen "narrative turn" werden die faszinierenden Leistungen des Erzahlens intensiv erforscht. Das Handbuch enthalt rund funfzig Beitrage von Experten aus mehr als zwanzig verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Disziplinen und bietet erstmals in deutscher Sprache einen breiten Uberblick uber Medien, Funktionen, soziale Felder und psychologische Voraussetzungen des Erzahlens von der Malerei bis zu Social Media, vom Tradieren bis zum...

In this book, distributional justice theories developed by John Rawls and Amartya Sen are applied to the governance of today s media, proposing a fresh, and innovative assessment of the potential role for media in society. Three case studies describe the utilization of new media by marginalized communities in Israel Ethiopian immigrants, the Bedouin and Palestinians and set the stage for media policy scholars, teachers and students to discuss an analytic framework for media policy that is fresh, different, innovative and original. Departing from the utilitarian principles that dominate...

In this book, the Mexican magazine Plural (1971-1976) provides a privileged vantage point from which to assess the developments that transformed Mexican and Latin American literary and political culture in the 1970s.