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  • Studies of Laughter in Interactionby Phillip Glenn; Elizabeth Holt

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 115.99

    Laughter is pervasive in interaction yet often overlooked in the research. This volume presents a collection of original studies revealing the highly-ordered, complex, and important phenomenon of laughter in everyday interactions. Building on 40 years of conversation analytic research, the authors show how the design and placement of laughs contribute... more...

  • Studies of Laughter in Interactionby Phillip Glenn; Elizabeth Holt

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 115.99

    Laughter is pervasive in interaction yet often overlooked in the research. This volume presents a collection of original studies revealing the highly-ordered, complex, and important phenomenon of laughter in everyday interactions. Building on 40 years of conversation analytic research, the authors show how the design and placement of laughs contribute... more...

  • On the Sleeve of the Visualby Alessandra Raengo

    Dartmouth College Press 2013; US$ 28.99

    An investigation of race and the ontology of the visual more...

  • War and Mediaby Andrew Hoskins; O’; Ben Loughlin

    Wiley 2013; US$ 74.95

    The trinity of government, military and publics has been drawn together into immediate and unpredictable relationships in a "new media ecology" that has ushered in new asymmetries in the waging of war and terror. To help us understand these new relationships, Andrew Hoskins and Ben O'Loughlin here provide a timely, comprehensive and highly readable... more...

  • A Practical Guide to Graphics Reportingby Jennifer George-Palilonis

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 56.95

    A Practical Guide to Graphics Reporting explains all of the most important skills and theoretical considerations for creating diagrams, charts, maps, and other forms of information graphics intended to provide readers with valuable visual and textual news and information. Research and writing skills as they relate to graphics reporting are explained,... more...

  • Mediated Cosmopolitanismby Alexa Robertson

    Wiley 2013; US$ 64.95

    Media 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...

  • New Visualities, New Technologiesby J. Macgregor Wise; Hille Koskela

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95

    Bringing together a transdisciplinary team of leading scholars and artists from North America, Europe and Asia, this volume documents and theorizes this new visibility. It focuses on the proliferation of a range of new visual technologies, examining questions of subjectivity, agency, and surveillance as well as mapping and theorizing new practices... more...

  • Frontiers in New Media Researchby Francis L.F. Lee; Louis Leung; Jack Linchuan Qiu; Donna S.C. Chu

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00

    This volume puts together the works of a group of distinguished scholars and active researchers in the field of media and communication studies to reflect upon the past, present, and future of new media research. The chapters examine the implications of new media technologies on everyday life, existing social institutions, and the society at large... more...

  • Managing in the Mediaby William Houseley; Tom Nicholls; Ron Southwell; Pamela Block

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 74.95

    Managing in the Media has been devised for a broad audience. It is based upon the perceived need for a text that amalgamates cultural theories, film and television analysis, management theories and media production practice into one volume. There are many books on film and cultural studies. Similarly, there are copious numbers of texts written on... more...

  • Setting the Agendaby Maxwell McCombs

    Wiley 2013; US$ 24.95

    Setting the Agenda describes the mass media’s significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Although Walter Lippman captured the essence of the media’s powerful influence early in the last century with his phrase, “the world outside and the pictures... more...