Intellect Books Ltd: 532 books
by Ralph Negrine, Christina Holtz-Bacha, Stylianos Papathanassopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
Has the communication of politics become professionalised? Who are the ‘professionals’ and what part do they play in the political process? Can the process of professionalisation be observed in different political systems? These, and related questions, about the changing nature of practices in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Many commentators have routinely referred to theatre and, to an extent, all forms of live performance as particularly appropriate to the discussion of national identity. Put simply, the act of live performance itself draws attention to the idea that identities are performed and that different versions...
by Dragica Potocnjak, Nicola Kirkham
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
This volume considers the making of settlement as a process of identity formation. Taking the position that a culture signifies a way of life, it asks how cultural frameworks inform patterns of settlement, and how the built environment, as process and design, conditions cultural production and reception....
Radio Content in the Digital Age
The Evolution of a Sound Medium
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The traditional radio medium has seen significant changes in recent years with the current global shift toward multimedia content, with both digital and FM making significant use of new technologies, including mobile communications and the Internet. This book focuses on the important role these new...
The New Brutality Film
Race and Affect in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2005
The 1990s saw the emergence of a new kind of American cinema, which this book calls the “newbrutality film.” Violence and race have been at the heart of Hollywood cinema since its birth, but the newbrutality film was the first kind of popular American cinema to begin making this relationship explicit....
by Angela Harutyunyan, Kathrin Horschelmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
The concept of a public sphere has traditionally been associated with urban spaces. Public Spheres After Socialism contests this in light of shifts of perspective in the East and West after the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.Public Spheres After Socialism draws together...
European Media Governance
The Brussels Dimension
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
Media Governance today is shifting media rules and regulations from national government policies to local, regional, national, multinational and international ones and away from exclusively governmental domains to others, such as market, professional and public interest/pressure groups. Many media-related...
Communication Skills
Stepladders to Success for the Professional
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
Essential reading for young professionals on the first rung of their career ladders, this second edition is an up-to-date and invaluable guide to improved communication skills, designed to develop the ambitious individual's prospects in their chosen profession. Tackling a broad range of different...
by Chris Wharton
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
This book is about advertising and culture. Advertising is a significant aspect of modernsocieties and plays an important part in economic activity. It is a highly visible component of everyday life and increasingly of contemporary culture. The book considers culture as a broad category of human endeavour...
Living and Sustaining a Creative Life
Essays by 40 Working Artists
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
In this day and age, when art has become more of a commodity and art school graduates are convinced that they can only make a living from their work by attaining gallery representation, it is more important than ever to show the reality of how a professional, contemporary artist sustains a creative...
Global Technological Change
From Hard Technology to Soft Technology
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Professor Jin’s new book, Global Technological Change: From Hard Technology to Soft Technology, is a powerful reconceptualization of technological options and innovation management, which can help steer societies in assessing technologies for the 21st century. As Zhouying Jin correctly points out:...
TV Format Mogul
Reg Grundy’s Transnational Career
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Since the late 1990s, when broadcasters began adapting such television shows as Big Brother, Survivor and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for markets around the world, the global television industry has been struggling to get to grips with the prevalence of programme franchising across international...
The Independence of the Media and its Regulatory Agencies
Shedding New Light on Formal and Actual Independence against the National Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Media independence is vital for democracies, and so is the independence of the regulatory bodies governing it.The Independence of the Media and its Regulatory Agencies explores the complex relationship between media governance and independence of media regulatory authorities within Europe, which...
Sustainability, Participation & Culture in Communication
Theory and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
At a time when sustainability is on everyone’s lips, this volume is one of the first to offer an overview of sustainability and communication issues - including community mobilization, information technologies, gender and social norms, mass media, interpersonal communication, and integrated communication...