Media Studies category: 113 books
Law and the Media
The Future of an Uneasy Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
Introducing readers to the study of law, media and popular culture, this text, using three original case studies, re-examines the assumptions underpinning existing research and suggests alternatives.
Arguing that the study of law, media and popular culture should be embedded in the sociology...
by Daithí Mac Síthigh
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
Why should anyone care about the medium of communication today, especially when talking about media law?
In today’s digital society, many emphasise convergence and seek new regulatory approaches. In Medium Law, however, the ‘medium theory’ insights of Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan and...
Chronic Youth
Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
The teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure,
the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brink
of success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the “troubled teen” as a site of
pop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic Youth
traces...
Crime, Media, and Reality
Examining Mixed Messages About Crime and Justice in Popular Media
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
In today's society, the public perception of crime has been skewed by how the media depicts it. People use the media for enjoyment, companionship, surveillance, and interpretation. The problem is that it becomes hard to separate fact from entertainment. This raises several questions. How are we consuming...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection...
Human Rights in the Media
Fear and Fetish
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
This collection sets about untangling some of the knotty issues in the underexplored relationship between human rights and the media. We investigate how complex debates in political, judicial, academic and public life on the role and value of human rights are represented in the media, particularly,...
by A. Hadland
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
The news media and the state are locked in a battle of wills in the world's emerging democratic states. It is a struggle that will determine whether or not democracy flourishes or withers in the 21st century. Using a number of case studies, including South Africa, this book evaluates what is at stake.
Global Media and National Policies
The Return of the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption. Global Media and National Policies questions those assumptions and shows not only that the nation-state never left...
Cached
Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
“This is the most culturally sophisticated history of the Internet yet written. We can’t make sense of what the Internet means in our lives without reading Schulte’s elegant account of what the Internet has meant at various points in the past 30 years.”
—Siva Vaidhyanathan, Chair of the...
Social Media and the Law
A Guidebook for Communication Students and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat allow users to connect with one another and share information with the click of a mouse or a tap on a touchscreen—and have become vital tools for professionals in the news and strategic communication fields. But as rapidly...
by Salim Lamrani
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
In this concise and detailed work, Salim Lamrani addresses questions of media concentration and corporate bias by examining a perennially controversial topic: Cuba. Lamrani argues that the tiny island nation is forced to contend not only with economic isolation and a U.S. blockade, but with misleading...
by Monroe E. Price, Stefaan Verhulst
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2002
This project, originally developed for the European Community, examines parental roles in controlling television programs watched by children in Europe. The structure of the study includes:
*an analysis of the technical devices available to assist in parental control of television broadcasting services,...
Global Media and National Policies
The Return of the State
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption. Global Media and National Policies questions those assumptions and shows not only that the nation-state never left...
by Tim Crook
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Providing practical and theoretical resources on media law and ethics for the United Kingdom and United States of America and referencing other legal jurisdictions such as France, Japan, India, China and Saudi Arabia, Comparative Media Law and Ethics is suitable for upper undergraduate and postgraduate...