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Making Social Work News
Taylor and Francis 1994; US$ 200.00Meryl Aldridge widens the debate on social work and its representation by the news media. She provides a basic understanding of the commercial logic of the UK press and compares news treatments in broadsheets, tabloids, local and national press more...
Media and Ethnic Minorities
Edinburgh University Press 2005; US$ 107.46Volumes in the Media Topics series critically examine the core subject areas within Media Studies. Each volume offers a critical overview as well as an original Intervention into the subject. Volume topics include: media theory and practice, history, policy, ethics, politics, discourse, culture and audience. Media and Ethnic Minorities Valerie Alia... more...
News, Gender and Power
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 39.95How do gender relations affect the practice of journalism? Despite the star status accorded to some women reporters, and the dramatic increase in the number of women working in journalism, why do men continue to occupy most senior management positions? And why do female readers, viewers and listeners remain as elusive as ever? News, Gender and Power... more...
Beyond Globalization
Rutgers University Press 2011; US$ 24.95Beyond Globalization highlights how mediated practices have become integral to global culture; how social practices have emerged out of computer-related industries; how contemporary apocalyptic narratives reflect the anxieties of a U.S. culture facing global challenges; and how design, play, and technology help us understand the histories and ideals... more...
Mass Mediations
University of California Press 2000; US$ 12.95Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communication and new dimensions of identity that affect economics,... more...
Dialogue in Intercultural Communities
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 149.00This book explores the meanings of educational interactions which aim to promote peace and positive relationships. This analysis is based on theories of communication and active participation in education systems, in particular in intercultural settings. The book investigates the cultural presuppositions of dialogues which can empower participants?... more...
Journalism, Science and Society
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 39.95Analyzing the role of journalists in science communication, this book presents a perspective on how this is going to evolve in the twenty-first century. The book takes three distinct perspectives on this interesting subject. Firstly, science journalists reflect on their ?operating rules? (science news values and news making routines). Secondly,... more...
Fredric Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture
University Press of Mississippi 2005; US$ 22.00Too often remembered solely as the psychiatrist and cultural critic whose testimony in Senate subcommittees sparked the creation of the Comics Code, Fredric Wertham was a far more complex man. Author Bart Beaty traces the evolution of Wertham's attitudes toward popular culture and reassesses his place in the debate about pop culture's effects... more...
Media and Mediation
SAGE India 2005; US$ 74.95This volume, the first in a three-book series titled Communication Processes, is devoted to understanding the politics in, and of, communication. It explores both the ground on which processes of communication unfold and the political configurations implied in communication processes. This two-pronged approach questions the preoccupation in Indian... more...
Communication, Culture and Confrontation
SAGE India 2009; US$ 39.95The third and final volume in the series on Communication Processes, Communication, Culture and Confrontation is a bold attempt at breaking conceptual and methodological impasses which stifle communication studies. Departing from established frameworks and dated technological metaphors such as transmission, the present volume explores and... more...









