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JavaScript Robotics: Building NodeBots with Johnny-Five, ...

JavaScript Robotics: Building NodeBots with Johnny-Five, ...

Backstop Media

... Arduino, and BeagleBone Backstop Media, Rick Waldron, Pawel Szymczykowski, Raquel Velez, Julian David Duque, Anna Gerber, Emily Rose, Susan Hinton, Jonathan Beri, Donovan Buck, Sara Gorecki, Kassandra Perch, Andrew Fisher, ...
De-Westernizing Media Studies

De-Westernizing Media Studies

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De-Westernizing Media Studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media. How do the media connect to power in society? Who and what influence the media?
Media Wizards: A Behind-the-scenes Look at Media Manipulations

Media Wizards: A Behind-the-scenes Look at Media Manipulations

Catherine Gourley

A look at how the media can alter the perceptions of the public, making people believe what they are shown, includes historical notes of how media manipulation existed even in the Civil War.
The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of the ...

The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of the ...

Nick Couldry

Couldry explores what happens when people who normally consume the media witness media processes in action, or even become the object of media attention themselves.
Media, Technology, and Society: Theories of Media Evolution

Media, Technology, and Society: Theories of Media Evolution

W. Russell Neuman

Top media studies scholars discuss the evolution of media
New Media: A Critical Introduction

New Media: A Critical Introduction

Martin Lister

Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which 'new media' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new ...
The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era

The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era

Trine Syvertsen

The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era comprehensively addresses the central dynamics of the digitalization of the media industry in the Nordic countries—Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland—and the ways media ...
Beyond Monopoly: Globalization and Contemporary Italian Media

Beyond Monopoly: Globalization and Contemporary Italian Media

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By engaging both the production and reception levels of different media, this volume assesses the extent to which Italian media have been part of current trends of media flows and have responded to the centrifugal and centripetal forces of ...
Media Studies: A Complete Introduction

Media Studies: A Complete Introduction

Joanne Hollows

The book uses a structure that mirrors the way Media Studies is taught on many university courses. Chapters include essential coverage of the history, organization and production of the media industries, and regulation of the media.
Media Studies: a Complete Introduction

Media Studies: a Complete Introduction

Joanne Hollows

The book uses a structure that mirrors the way Media Studies is taught on many university courses. Chapters include essential coverage of the history, organization and production of the media industries, and regulation of the media.
Media bias

Media bias

Stuart A. Kallen

Essays cover a variety of viewpoints on the subject of media bias, including whether the media are influenced by conservative interests, if ABC News was biased against the U.S. led war in Iraq, and does corporate media threaten democracy.
The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest

The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest

David Croteau

The Second Edition of The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest provides students with the critical, yet careful, analysis of the rapidly changing media industry that they need in order to get behind the headlines and ...
Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics

Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Poetics, and Politics

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In this exciting interdisciplinary collection, scholars, activists, and media producers explore the emergence of Indigenous media: forms of media expression conceptualized, produced, and created by Indigenous peoples around the globe.
Rethinking University Teaching: A Conversational Framework ...

Rethinking University Teaching: A Conversational Framework ...

Diana Laurillard

Part II Analysing the media for learning and teaching; A framework for analysis; Introduction; Pedagogical categories for classifying media; A framework for analysing educational media; Forms of educational media; 5 Narrative media; ...
Remediation: Understanding New Media

Remediation: Understanding New Media

J. David Bolter

'Remediation' emphasises how all forms of media constantly borrow from and refashion other types of media. The authors argue that the new media of the 90s pay homage to earlier forms and thereby achieve their own cultural significance.
Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice

Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice

Nick Couldry

Written by an internationally respected scholar, this contribution to media theory considers the relationship between media and social theory.
Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice

Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice

Nick Couldry

Written by an internationally respected scholar, this contribution to media theory considers the relationship between media and social theory.
Postmodern Media Culture

Postmodern Media Culture

Jonathan Bignell

Postmodern Media Culture Analyses The Function Of Media Examples In The Work Of A Number Of Key Theorists Including Adorno, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Habermas, Jameson, Lyotard And Mcluhan, And Discusses Contemporary Media Production, Products ...
Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema

Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema

Carol Vernallis

Unruly Media is the first book to account for the current audiovisual landscape across media and platform. It includes new theoretical models and close readings of current media as well as the oeuvre of popular and influential directors.
Narrating Media History

Narrating Media History

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Based on the work of media historian, James Curran, Narrating Media History explores British media history as a series of competing narratives.
Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the ...

Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the ...

Michele Hilmes

Philip Napoli, “Media Economics and the Study of Media Industries,” in Media Industries, ed. Jennifer Holt and Alisa Perren. Oxford: Blackwell, 2009, pp. 161– 170. Marc Raboy, Global Media Policy in the New Millennium. Luton: University of ...
New Media, New Policies: Media and Communications Strategy ...

New Media, New Policies: Media and Communications Strategy ...

Richard Collins

This is the first book to systematically look at the implications of the UKUs media experience and to provide clear guidelines for the future.
Religion and Society

Religion and Society

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1, March 1997 Media Education — A Critical Overview Ashish Sen* Exit media appreciation, enter media education. After virtually a decade of being mentioned in desultory whimpers, if at all, media education seems poised to enter the Indian  ...
Eco-Sonic Media

Eco-Sonic Media

Jacob Smith

Eco-Sonic Media brings an ecological critique to the history of sound media technologies in order to amplify the environmental undertones in sound studies and turn up the audio in discussions of greening the media.
Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications

Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications

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This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded.
Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World

Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World

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This important book will help shape debates on the media's role in current global struggles. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Effective Media Relations: How to Get Results

Effective Media Relations: How to Get Results

Michael Bland

Working with the written and broadcast media is the bedrock of many public relations programmes. 'Effective Media Relations' gives practical help and guidance on how to get the best from working with the media.
The Media Economy

The Media Economy

Alan B. Albarran

To understand the role of media in the global economy, the insights included here are crucial for media students and practitioners.
Trial by Media

Trial by Media

Chris Greer

This agenda-setting book argues that Trial by Media is redefining the meaning and nature of justice in a multi-media world.
The Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment

The Rise and Fall of the Media Establishment

Darrell M. West

West organizes the book into five distinct media eras: the Partisan, Commercial, Objective, Interpretive, and Fragmented Media.

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