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Here Comes Everybodyby Clay Shirky
Penguin Group Inc. 2009; US$ 12.99A revelatory examination of how the wildfirelike spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects-for good and for ill A handful of kite hobbyists scattered around the world find each other online and collaborate on the most radical improvement in kite design in decades. A midwestern professor of Middle Eastern history starts a blog after 9/11 that becomes essential reading for journalists covering the Iraq war. Activists use the Internet and e-mail to bring offensive comments made by Trent Lott and Don Imus to a wide public and hound them from their positions. A few people find that a world-class online encyclopedia... more...
Media Talkby Andrew Tolson
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 119.40Offers a perspective on some key issues in contemporary media studies. Adapting perspectives derived from "Discourse and Conversation Analysis", this approach investigates distinctive forms of mediated speech on TV and radio. more...
Monster Theoryby Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
University of Minnesota Press 1996; US$ 66.00The contributors to Monster Theory consider beasts, demons, freaks and fiends as symbolic expressions of cultural unease that pervade a society and shape its collective behavior. Through a historical sampling of monsters, these essays argue that our fascination for the monstrous testifies to our continued desire to explore difference and prohibition. more...
Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysisby Robin Wooffitt
Sage Publications Ltd. 2005; US$ 58.00Shows how the methods and findings of conversation and discourse analysis may inform the development of empirical research questions. It will therefore be an invaluable resource for social science students on courses which require them to undertake practical or empirical exercises. more...
Media in Europe Todayby Josef Trappel; Werner A. Meier; Leen d?Haenens; Jeanette Steemers; Barbara Thomass
Intellect 2010; US$ 20.00This book is written by media scholars from all over Europe who are members of the Euromedia Research Group. What unites the group is the joint interest of its members in the analysis of media structures and media policy in Europe against the background of contemporary communication theories and concepts. The book has two parts: First, it looks into structural changes in specific media formats such as newspapers, radio, television and online-media. Second, it analyses specific problems and challenges in a comparative way, such as the creation of public sphere(s), the relation between media and democracy, public service media, media regulation and media governance, challenges of media industries etc.The book addresses graduate students in mass... more...
French for Marketingby R. E. Batchelor; Malliga Chebli-Saadi
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 35.00Written entirely in French, this book provides a structured two-year course in French and marketing. more...
Media Todayby Joseph Turow
Taylor & Francis 2011; US$ 89.95Media Today gives your students the media literacy skills they need to think critically about the role of media in their lives. This book uses a media systems approach to look closely at the production, distribution, and exhibition of media, from Hollywood films to Facebook, to discover cultural, political, and economic forces that shape media now. Completely revised and updated, this 4th edition connects the latest trends, debates, and technologies to the history of media, highlighting the impact and meaning of today's changes to the media landscape, especially how traditional industry boundaries have blurred with digital convergence. Students and instructors will find a full range of supporting materials including... more...
Statistical Pronunciation Modeling for Non-Native Speech Processingby Rainer E. Gruhn; Wolfgang Minker; Satoshi Nakamura
Springer 2011; US$ 129.00In this work, the authors present a fully statistical approach to model non--native speakers' pronunciation. Second-language speakers pronounce words in multiple different ways compared to the native speakers. Those deviations, may it be phoneme substitutions, deletions or insertions, can be modelled automatically with the new method presented here. The methods is based on a discrete hidden Markov model as a word pronunciation model, initialized on a standard pronunciation dictionary. The implementation and functionality of the methodology has been proven and verified with a test set of non-native English in the regarding accent. The book is written for researchers with a professional interest in phonetics and automatic speech and speaker... more...
Environmental Risks and the Mediaby Barbara Adam; Stuart Allan; Cynthia Carter; Ulrich Beck
Routledge 1999; US$ 41.95Considers the tension between entertainment and information in media coverage of environmental issues. more...
Tabloid Televisionby John Langer
Routledge 1997; US$ 42.95This book provides an eclectic and intriguing look at one of the most maligned areas of television news; John Langer offers some interesting speculation about where television news may be heading. more...