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Last Call at the Oasis: The Global Water Crisis and Where We ...
Participant MediaCopyright © 2012 by Participant Media. Published in the United States by PublicAffairsTM, a Member of the Perseus Books Group Excerpt from The Day New York Went Dry by Charles Einstein is reprinted by permission of the author's estate.
Lincoln: A President for the Ages
Participant MediaSavior of the Union and the Great Emancipator. All these are Abraham Lincoln—in his time America's most admired and reviled leader, and still our nation's most enigmatic and captivating hero.
Secondary Lenses on Learning Participant Book: Team ...
PreviewThis participant book, in combination with the facilitator's guide, forms a comprehensive professional development program designed to improve the efforts of site-based mathematics leadership teams for middle and high schools.
Becoming More Than a Good Bible Study Girl Participant's ...
Lysa TerKeurstFind incredible joy as you live out your faith in everyday circumstances. This Participant Guide is filled with helpful discussion starters, video overviews, space for writing thoughts, a helpful Leader’s Guide and much more.
A Place at the Table: The Crisis of 49 Million Hungry ...
Participant MediaFaith and Food DAVID BECKMANN AND SARAH NEWMAN FROM A PLACE AT THE TABLE We have tried a thousand points of light. We have tried it in spades, but with all of that expansion of private feeling, all of that effort, especially by the ...
Waiting for Superman: How We Can Save America's Failing ...
Participant MediaWaiting for "Superman" offers powerful insights from some of those at the leading edge of educational innovation, including Bill and Melinda Gates, Michelle Rhee, Geoffrey Canada, and more.
De-Westernizing Media Studies
PreviewDe-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
Catherine GourleyA 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 ...
Nick CouldryCouldry 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
W. Russell NeumanTop media studies scholars discuss the evolution of media
New Media: A Critical Introduction
Martin ListerWritten 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
Trine SyvertsenThe 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
PreviewBy 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
Joanne HollowsThe 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
Joanne HollowsThe 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
Stuart A. KallenEssays 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
David CroteauThe 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
PreviewIn 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 ...
Diana LaurillardPart 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
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
Nick CouldryWritten 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
Nick CouldryWritten by an internationally respected scholar, this contribution to media theory considers the relationship between media and social theory.
Unruly Media: YouTube, Music Video, and the New Digital Cinema
Carol VernallisUnruly 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.
Postmodern Media Culture
Jonathan BignellPostmodern 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 ...
Narrating Media History
PreviewBased 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 ...
Michele HilmesPhilip 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 ...
Richard CollinsThis 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
More editions1, 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
Jacob SmithEco-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.
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