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Mediation and Protest Movements
Intellect 2013; US$ 20.00In recent times, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their messages spread. Correcting that imbalance, Mediation... more...
Medienwirkungsforschung
Mohr Siebeck 2007; US$ 85.20Hauptbeschreibung Dieses inzwischen klassische Werk über die Ansätze und Ergebnisse der Medienwirkungsforschung wurde in der dritten Auflage durchgängig aktualisiert, ergänzt und erweitert. Der zunehmenden Bedeutung von Priming und Framing wurde durch separate Kapitel Rechnung getragen. Das Kapitel zu den Effekten von Gewaltdarstellungen wurde komplett... more...
Killing Monsters
Basic Books 2008; US$ 15.95From a veteran creator of children's entertainment, an insider's view of how even the most violent games and TV shows can help children conquer fears and develop a bold sense of self. more...
Media and Morality
Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for the way in which the world is understood by its citizens. It also argues that without... more...
Interpersonal Pragmatics
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 307.00This handbook focuses on the interpersonal aspects of language in use, exploring key concepts such as face, im/politeness, identity, or gender, as well as mitigation, respect/deference, and humour in a variety of settings. The volume includes theoretical overviews as well as empirical studies from experts in a range of disciplines within linguistics... more...
On the Sleeve of the Visual
Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 28.99An investigation of race and the ontology of the visual more...
Sources for a Socio-Economic History of the Neo-Hittite States
Universitätsverlag Winter 2012; US$ 71.17Hauptbeschreibung The Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions of the Iron Age contain sparse but substantial information regarding several aspects of the socio-economic structure of the so-called Neo-Hittite states, such as royal, official and professional titles, nouns of measures, records of local adiminstrative activities and of private or semi-private... more...
Mediated Cosmopolitanism
Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95Media power in the global era has to do with how people understand the world, their place in it, and their relation to the others who populate it. Making connections with distant places and people is the work of cosmopolitan imagination, which involves seeing the world through the eyes of others. In this book, Robertson engages with the growing literature... more...
Media, Communication, Culture
Wiley 2013; US$ 26.95Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of the leading scholars in the discipline, draws from a wide range of social and cultural theory, including the work of John B. Thompson, Thomas Sowell, Nestor Garcia Canclini, Anthony... more...









