Losing the News: The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy
ISBN: 9780195181234 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes which are eroding the core news that has been the essential food supply of our democracy.
At a time of dazzling technological innovation, Jones says that what stands to be lost is the fact-based reporting that serves as a watchdog over government, holds the powerful accountable, and gives citizens what they need. In a tumultuous new media era, with cutthroat competition and panic over profits, the commitment of the traditional news media to serious... In Losing the News, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex S. Jones offers a probing look at the epochal changes sweeping the media, changes which are...
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123,87 zł |
The Media Were American: U.S. Mass Media in Decline
ISBN: 9780195181463 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a snapshot at global media. This work considers the role of the media in the collapse of the Soviet Union, the ascendance of the Brazillian and Mexican soap opera, the increasing strength of "Bollywood" - the national cinema output of India - as well as the relative decline in influence of US media.
Presents a snapshot at global media. This work considers the role of the media in the collapse of the Soviet Union, the ascendance of the Brazillian a...
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798,35 zł |
The Media Were American: U.S. Mass Media in Decline
ISBN: 9780195181470 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1977, Jeremy Tunstall published the landmark The Media Are American. In it, he argued that while much of the mass media originated in Europe and elsewhere, the United States dominated global media because nearly every mass medium became industrialized within the United States. With this provocative follow-up, Tunstall chronicles the massive changes that have taken place in the media over the past forty years--changes that have significantly altered the "balance of power" within the global media landscape. The Media Were American demonstrates that both the United States...
In 1977, Jeremy Tunstall published the landmark The Media Are American. In it, he argued that while much of the mass media originated in Euro...
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534,31 zł |
Living Ethics: Across Media Platforms
ISBN: 9780195188608 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a seamlessly wired world of television, computers, and BlackBerrys, where does ethics fit in? To address that question, Living Ethics calls for a moral convergence to complement the technological one. Identifying principles that apply across media platforms, Michael Bugeja has created a thorough and well-researched work that avoids the prescriptive language used by many texts; instead, he encourages critical thinking through examples that build, challenge, and enhance readers' value systems.
While many ethics texts focus almost exclusively on journalistic ethics, this... In a seamlessly wired world of television, computers, and BlackBerrys, where does ethics fit in? To address that question, Living Ethics call...
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968,21 zł |
From Angels to Aliens: Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural
ISBN: 9780195300239 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Left Behind series are but the latest manifestations of American teenagers' longstanding fascination with the supernatural and the paranormal. In this groundbreaking book, Lynn Schofield Clark explores the implications of this fascination for contemporary religious and spiritual practices. Relying on stories gleaned from more than 250 in-depth interviews with teens and their families, Clark seeks to discover what today's teens really believe and why. She finds that as adherence to formal religious bodies declines, interest in...
Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the Left Behind series are but the latest manifestations of American teenagers' longstan...
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159,87 zł |
Reporting from Washington: The History of the Washington Press Corps
ISBN: 9780195308921 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Donald Ritchie offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation's capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of the wire services to the brave new world of the Internet.
Beginning with 1932, when a newly elected FDR energized the sleepy capital, Ritchie highlights the dramatic changes in journalism that have occurred in the last seven decades. We meet legendary columnists--including Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, and Drew Pearson --as well as the great investigative reporters, from Paul Y. Anderson to the two green Washington Post reporters... Donald Ritchie offers a vibrant chronicle of news coverage in our nation's capital, from the early days of radio and print reporting and the heyday of...
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63,86 zł |
Decline and Fall of Public Service Broadcasting
ISBN: 9780198159247 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public broadcasting is arguably the single most important social, cultural, and journalistic institution of the 20th century. In the past 15 years it has been assaulted politically, ideologically, and technologically. Today it is everywhere in retreat. This book considers the very idea of public service broadcasting, studying in detail the many assaults made upon it--with specific emphasis on developments and events in the UK, Japan, Europe, and the US. Tracey argues that public service broadcasting has been a vital and democratically significant institution in the past, and that it is now...
Public broadcasting is arguably the single most important social, cultural, and journalistic institution of the 20th century. In the past 15 years it ...
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234,28 zł |
Deciding What We Watch: Taste, Decency and Media Ethics in the UK and the USA
ISBN: 9780198159377 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers the different constraints (in the law, cultural customs, and self-regulation) affecting broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic and the means by which they have responded to them. The book describes, with examples, the operations of compliance regulations and standard controls. It also explores the moral basis and history of such regulation as it has until now been applied to major issues of taste and decency.
This book considers the different constraints (in the law, cultural customs, and self-regulation) affecting broadcasters on both sides of the Atlantic...
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834,40 zł |
The Indigenous Public Sphere: The Reporting and Reception of Aboriginal Issues in the Australian Media
ISBN: 9780198159995 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Indigenous Public Sphere is a fascinating and innovative account of the connections between textuality and citizenship. Focussing on the reporting and reception of Aboriginal affairs in the media, it has major implications for rethinking the study of journalism and ethnicity in national politics and public life.
The Indigenous Public Sphere is a fascinating and innovative account of the connections between textuality and citizenship. Focussing on the reporting...
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1242,45 zł |
The Power of News: The History of Reuters
ISBN: 9780198207689 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a fascinating account of Reuters, the international news agency which for almost 150 years has brought us history as it is being made. Donald Read's authoritative and readable history of Reuters shows how the company has always been in the forefront of communications technology, from the days of pigeon post and the first transatlantic cables to the age of the satellite and computer link.
This book is a fascinating account of Reuters, the international news agency which for almost 150 years has brought us history as it is being made. Do...
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630,38 zł |
Liberalizing the European Media
ISBN: 9780198233794 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study offers an assessment of the political, cultural, and economic basis of policies for constructing a European Information Society. It concludes that the deregulation of European media has serious consequences for participative democracy of the future.
This study offers an assessment of the political, cultural, and economic basis of policies for constructing a European Information Society. It conclud...
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714,39 zł |
Newspaper Power: The New National Press in Britain
ISBN: 9780198711339 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines British national newspapers after the 1986 "Death of Fleet Street" triggered by Rupert Murdoch. Since then competition has intensified with more titles, fatter papers, more sections, and aggressive marketing. All areas of journalism--from sport to politics--have been transformed. A star system has developed for columnist and there is now a bigger and more powerful top echelon of senior executives, star writers, and section heads. The Editor has taken on a newly dominant role as impresario and entrepreneur.
Newspaper Power is based on 200 interviews with senior... This book examines British national newspapers after the 1986 "Death of Fleet Street" triggered by Rupert Murdoch. Since then competition has intensif...
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270,28 zł |
New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States
ISBN: 9780198711452 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Media and Popular Imagination places the current technological upheaval in audio-visual culture in the context of previous periods of twentieth-century media innovation. Examining popular and industry responses to the introduction of radio, television, and digital media into the home, the book underscores the continuities and disjunctions in the ways in which electronic media have been anticipated, promoted, and resisted in twentieth-century America.
New Media and Popular Imagination places the current technological upheaval in audio-visual culture in the context of previous periods of twentieth-ce...
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246,28 zł |
New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States
ISBN: 9780198711469 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Media and Popular Imagination places the current technological upheaval in audio-visual culture in the context of previous periods of twentieth-century media innovation. Examining popular and industry responses to the introduction of radio, television, and digital media into the home, the book underscores the continuities and disjunctions in the ways in which electronic media have been anticipated, promoted, and resisted in twentieth-century America.
New Media and Popular Imagination places the current technological upheaval in audio-visual culture in the context of previous periods of twentieth-ce...
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308,74 zł |
Emancipation, the Media, and Modernity: Arguments about the Media and Social Theory
ISBN: 9780198742241 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book adopts a polemical stance. It approaches the problems raised by the media by way of a set of arguments with the two dominant paradigms now current for thinking about the media: post-modernism and Information Society theory. It argues that the media are important because they raise a set of questions that have been central to social and political theory since the Enlightenment.
This book adopts a polemical stance. It approaches the problems raised by the media by way of a set of arguments with the two dominant paradigms now c...
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260,74 zł |
Emancipation, the Media, and Modernity ' Arguments about the Media and Social Theory '
ISBN: 9780198742258 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book adopts a polemical stance. It approaches the problems raised by the media by way of a set of arguments with the two dominant paradigms now current for thinking about the media: post-modernism and Information Society theory. It argues that the media are important because they raise a set of questions that have been central to social and political theory since the Enlightenment.
This book adopts a polemical stance. It approaches the problems raised by the media by way of a set of arguments with the two dominant paradigms now c...
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275,13 zł |
Television, Childhood, and the Home: A History of the Making of the Child Television Audience in Britain
ISBN: 9780198742609 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, the first academic study of its kind, uncovers a history of the child television audience. Looking in detail at children's television and its audience in Britain in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, the book shows how an audience literally came into being, how it was given substance, and how it became the site of intervention.
This book, the first academic study of its kind, uncovers a history of the child television audience. Looking in detail at children's television and i...
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510,36 zł |
Photography and Doubt
ISBN: 9781138914605 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent decades have seen photography s privileged relationship to the real come under question. Spurred by the postmodern critique of photography in the 1980s and the rise of digital technologies soon thereafter, scholars have been asking who and what built this understanding of the medium in the first place. Photography and Doubt reflects on this interest in photography s referential power by discussing it in rigorously historical terms. How was the understanding of photographic realism cultivated in the first place? What do cases of staged and manipulated... Recent decades have seen photography s privileged relationship to the real come under question. Spurred by the postmodern critique of photography i... |
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684,09 zł |
Chinese Cinemas: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9781138912465 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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658,75 zł |
Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era
ISBN: 9780202303765 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of media logic, a theoretical framework for explaining the relationship between mass media and culture, was first introduced in Altheide and Snow's influential work, Media Logic. In Media Worlds in the Postjournalism Era, the authors expand their analysis of how organizational considerations promote a distinctive media logic, which in turn is conductive to a media culture. They trace the ethnography of that media culture, including the knowledge, techniques, and assumptions that encourage media professionals to acquire particular cognitive and evaluative criteria... The concept of media logic, a theoretical framework for explaining the relationship between mass media and culture, was first introduced in Althei... |
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658,75 zł |