Creating Fear: News and the Construction of Crisis
ISBN: 9780202306605 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking advantage of electronic information bases, Altheide, whose previous interpretive studies of the mass media are well known, uses a "tracking discourse" method to show how the nature and use of the word "fear" by mass media have changed over the years. His analysis examines how some of the topics associated with fear (e.g., AIDS, crime, immigrants, race, sexuality, schools, children) have shifted in emphasis, and how certain news organizations and social institutions benefit from the exploitation of fear. This book is about fear and its expanding place in our public life. The author...
Taking advantage of electronic information bases, Altheide, whose previous interpretive studies of the mass media are well known, uses a "tracking dis...
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Living with Television
ISBN: 9780202307961 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is based on extensive field research conducted by the investigators of Social Research Inc., interpreting the result of over 13,000 individuals. Members of TV audiences were studied to analyze their reactions to what TV offered them, in relation to their age, sex, social class, and personal characteristics. This information is here applied to understanding what television programs, performers, and commercials--by general type and also with illustrative case histories--are being watched. This book on first publication in 1962 provided the first clear image of the people... This book is based on extensive field research conducted by the investigators of Social Research Inc., interpreting the result of over 13,000 indi... |
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Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt
ISBN: 9780226001975 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? "Dramas of Nationhood" identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nation television serials. These melodramatic programs like soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western counterparts have been shown on television in Egypt for more than thirty years. In this book, Lila Abu-Lughod examines the shifting politics of these serials and the way their contents both reflect and seek to direct the changing course of Islam, gender relations, and everyday life in this Middle...
How do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? "Dramas of Nationhood" identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egy...
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160,34 zł |
Governing with the News, Second Edition: The News Media as a Political Institution
ISBN: 9780226115016 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ideal of a neutral, objective press has proven in recent years to be just that an ideal. In "Governing with the News, " Timothy E. Cook goes far beyond the single claim that the press is not impartial to argue that the news media are in fact a political institution integral to the day-to-day operations of our government. This updated edition includes a new afterword by the author, which pays close attention to two key developments in the twenty-first century: the accelerating fragmentation of the mass media and the continuing decline of Americans' confidence in the press.
"Provocative... The ideal of a neutral, objective press has proven in recent years to be just that an ideal. In "Governing with the News, " Timothy E. Cook goes far b...
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144,30 zł |
Foreign News: Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents
ISBN: 9780226315751 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Foreign News" gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how they work, Ulf Hannerz also compares the ways correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.
Hannerz draws on extensive interviews with correspondents in cities as diverse as Jerusalem, Tokyo, and Johannesburg. He shows not only how different story lines evolve in different correspondent beats, but also how the correspondents' home country and personal interests influence the stories they write. Reporting can... "Foreign News" gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how the...
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At Stake: Monsters and the Rhetoric of Fear in Public Culture
ISBN: 9780226380070 / Angielski / Miękka / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anyone who watches the evening news is all too familiar with how the word "monster" is used to describe acts of violence. In this book, Edward Ingebretsen sets out to discover what is really at stake when we turn someone into a "monster." The monster, he finds, serves a moralizing function in our culture, making exaggerated examples of particular evildoers in order to reaffirm prevailing standards of behavior and personal conduct.
Anyone who watches the evening news is all too familiar with how the word "monster" is used to describe acts of violence. In this book, Edward Ingebre...
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171,02 zł |
Documentary Expression and Thirties America
ISBN: 9780226775593 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A comprehensive inquiry into the attitudes and ambitions that characterized the documentary impulse of the thirties. The subject is a large one, for it embraces (among much else) radical journalism, academic sociology, the esthetics of photography, Government relief programs, radio broadcasting, the literature of social work, the rhetoric of political persuasion, and the effect of all these on the traditional arts of literature, painting, theater and dance. The great merit of Mr. Stott's study lies precisely in its wide-ranging view of this complex terrain." Hilton Kramer, " New York Times...
"A comprehensive inquiry into the attitudes and ambitions that characterized the documentary impulse of the thirties. The subject is a large one, for ...
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192,40 zł |
Media and Male Identity: The Making and Remaking of Men
ISBN: 9780230001671 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a landmark in-depth study of how mass media contributes to the making and remaking of male identity. It concludes that, unless addressed, the effects of negative discourse on the self-identity and self-esteem of men, are potentially devastating and that the longer-term and wider social implications will also be costly.
This book presents a landmark in-depth study of how mass media contributes to the making and remaking of male identity. It concludes that, unless addr...
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389,09 zł |
Television and Terror: Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse
ISBN: 9780230002319 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its impositions of immediacy, and brevity, fails to deliver critical and consistent expositions of our conflicting times.
The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Hoskins and O'L...
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194,52 zł |
Communication in the Age of Suspicion: Trust and the Media
ISBN: 9780230002548 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this timely volume, fourteen international contributors explore the relationship between media and trust, beginning with an examination of the decline of trust in key institutions. The book concludes by considering the future implications for media communication and exploring potential directions for further research in this Age of Suspicion.
In this timely volume, fourteen international contributors explore the relationship between media and trust, beginning with an examination of the decl...
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389,09 zł |
Media and Public Spheres
ISBN: 9780230007215 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia, this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Internetto reveal both how media structure public spheresand how people use media to participate in the public sphere
Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia, this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies, radio, television and the Int...
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Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth-Century Germany
ISBN: 9780230008380 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first study of mass media in Germany from a social and cultural-historical perspective. Beyond the conventional focus on organizational structures or aesthetic content, it investigates the impact the media has on German society under varying political systems, and how the media is shaped by wider social, political and cultural context.
This is the first study of mass media in Germany from a social and cultural-historical perspective. Beyond the conventional focus on organizational st...
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389,09 zł |
Broadcasting in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780230013179 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Broadcasting has undergone rapid and substantial changes following recent advances in modern technology. This innovative new book provides a comprehensive guide to the cultural, political, economical and technological factors that make broadcasting what it is today. Beginning with a chronological narrative of the history of broadcasting it goes on to consider key issues in the development of radio, television and the internet, including the impact on audiences and the growth of "broadcasting on demand." Concluding with a discussion of what the future holds for digital broadcasting, this book...
Broadcasting has undergone rapid and substantial changes following recent advances in modern technology. This innovative new book provides a comprehen...
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609,27 zł |
Transnational Lives and the Media: Re-Imagining Diaspora
ISBN: 9780230019836 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection offers a comprehensive account of the relation between diaspora and media cultures. It analyses the politics of transnational communication, the consumption of media by diasporic communities, and the views of non-governmental organizations on issues of the participation and representation of ethnic minorities in the media.
This collection offers a comprehensive account of the relation between diaspora and media cultures. It analyses the politics of transnational communic...
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History and the Media
ISBN: 9780230517806 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the boom in history, in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers. Leading historians and broadcasters, such as Melvyn Bragg, Simon Schama and David Puttnam, draw on their personal experiences to explore the problems and highlights of representing history in the media.
This book examines the boom in history, in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers. Leading historia...
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186,61 zł |
Anglo-American Media Interactions, 1850-2000
ISBN: 9780230521254 / Angielski / Twarda / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume reveals the complicated ways in which British and American media have influenced each other over the past two centuries. In doing so, it adds an important transatlantic dimension to media scholarship, while demonstrating the crucial and varied ways in which media have helped build an Anglo-American 'special relationship'.
This volume reveals the complicated ways in which British and American media have influenced each other over the past two centuries. In doing so, it a...
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The Dream of a New Social Order: Popular Magazines in America, 1893â "1914
ISBN: 9780231082907 / Angielski / Twarda / 357 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture based on dreams of a better future.
This study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture based on dreams of a better fu...
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331,36 zł |
Scooped!: Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, and Celebrities
ISBN: 9780231102926 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scooped surveys the impact of tabloid journalism in America and reveals that crime news and reporting say much about a society fascinated by sleaze and violence. David Krajicek raises important questions about how and why certain crimes are reported, and the ways in which these representations are framing debates concerning crime policy and the criminal justice system. He challenges journalists--in the tabloid, television, and otherwise "respectable" news media--to fulfill their mission to inform, and not inflame, the public.
Scooped surveys the impact of tabloid journalism in America and reveals that crime news and reporting say much about a society fascinated by s...
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491,69 zł |
Scooped!: Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, and Celebrities
ISBN: 9780231102933 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scooped surveys the impact of tabloid journalism in America and reveals that crime news and reporting say much about a society fascinated by sleaze and violence. David Krajicek raises important questions about how and why certain crimes are reported, and the ways in which these representations are framing debates concerning crime policy and the criminal justice system. He challenges journalists--in the tabloid, television, and otherwise "respectable" news media--to fulfill their mission to inform, and not inflame, the public.
Scooped surveys the impact of tabloid journalism in America and reveals that crime news and reporting say much about a society fascinated by s...
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207,72 zł |
Journalism and New Media
ISBN: 9780231114837 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ubiquitous news, global information access, instantaneous reporting, interactivity, multimedia content, extreme customization: Journalism is undergoing the most fundamental transformation since the rise of the penny press in the nineteenth century. Here is a report from the front lines on the impact and implications for journalists and the public alike. John Pavlik, executive director of the Center for New Media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, argues that the new media can revitalize news gathering and reengage an increasingly distrustful and alienated citizenry....
Ubiquitous news, global information access, instantaneous reporting, interactivity, multimedia content, extreme customization: Journalism is undergoin...
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195,87 zł |