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English Media Texts ? Past and Present
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2000; US$ 173.00This book is among the first to combine a historical view of media texts with a critical look at their textual diversity today. The thirteen chapters cover corpora of early news-papers and pamphlets, present-day news stories and commentaries, TV talk shows and commercials as well as internet presentations. The studies focus on the wide range of text... more...
The Spiral of ?Anti-Other Rhetoric?
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 173.00How do media inform our representations of the Other and how does this influence intercultural / international relations? While officially dialogues between different national societies are conducted by diplomats in bilateral and multilateral settings, in practice journalists also participate every day in such dialogues through the phenomenon of the... more...
The Alternative Media Handbook
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 41.95'Alternative Media' is the term used to describe non-mainstream media forms that are independently run and community focussed, such as zines, pirate radio, online discussion boards, community run and owned broadcasting companies, and activist publications such as Red Pepper and Corporate Watch . The book outlines the different types of 'alternative... more...
Images That Injure
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 55.00We are all aware of problematic stereotypes and prejudices regarding ethnicity, race, or gender; indeed, there are many laws to discourage such discriminatory behavior. The reality is that detrimental stereotypes in the media are so numerous and pervasive that they negatively affect the entire American populationÑnot just a minority of citizens. more...
Computer-Mediated Communication
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1996; US$ 54.00Text-based interaction among humans connected via computer networks, such as takes place via email and in synchronous modes such as ?chat?, MUDs and MOOs, has attracted considerable popular and scholarly attention. This collection of 14 articles on text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC), is the first to bring empirical evidence from a variety... more...
The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications
Wiley 2011; US$ 207.95Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students and scholars a comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date... more...
"Terrorismus" zwischen Ereignis und Diskurs
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00Text-image combinations can authenticate events and establish a visual memory. Here this phenomenon is explored: A pragmatic theory of text-image relationships is developed and empirically tested on the example of print media reports about terrorism in the FRG during the 1970s. The analyses show how texts unambiguously illuminate the meaning of images... more...
Fog Facts
Nation Books 2006; US$ 13.95Everyone in the world knows what Bill Clinton did with Monica Lewinsky, or what happened to Brad and Jennifer, Katie and Tom. These factoids mysteriously capture the world's attention. But there's a flip side to this: fog facts. Fog facts are known but not known, the sort of things that journalists and political junkies know, but somehow the world... more...
The Power of Metaphor
Crown House Publishing 1999; US$ 18.94Packed with original stories and visualisations, this is a must-buy resource for teachers, trainers and therapists who are looking for new approaches to group work, or are simply story-telling enthusiasts. ? An essential part of our professional development library and widely consulted? Fiona Balloch, Principal, Oxford House College, London more...









