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Understanding The Local Media
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 203.00How will local media deal with the challenge of the Internet? This work explains how regional newspapers and broadcast news are owned, regulated and organized; how these factors produce the outputs we see and hear; what we know of audiences' attitude to them; and discusses local media as places of work. more...
Battleground: The Media [Two Volumes]
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 175.00There are many controversial aspects of today's media system, and this captivating encyclopedia examines the most significant of the topics currently being debated. Arranged alphabetically, approximately 100 entries cover background, definitions, notable programs, significant media events and their historical significance, and important future trends.... more...
Media, Institutions and Audiences
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 125.00This title delivers a range of theories and contemporary case studies in its coverage of media business and the influence of regulation and censorship. The major approaches to understanding audiences are also investigated. more...
Key Themes in Interpersonal Communication
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 140.00What are the main influences on the formation of self-identity? What role do language and non-verbal communication play in the construction and display of identity? This work explores the socio-cultural surrounding in which interpersonal communication takes place, and considers the interface between interpersonal and mass communication. more...
The Boy Who Cried Freebird
HarperCollins 2008; US$ 12.99Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism, Mitch Myers' The Boy Who Cried Freebird is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant, insightful, and wonderfully strange, this literary mix-tape is authentic music history . . . except when it isn't. Myers outrageously blends short... more...
Planet Google
Free Press 2008; US$ 15.00Based on unprecedented access he received to the highly secretive "Googleplex," acclaimed New York Times columnist Randall Stross takes readers deep inside Google, the most important, most innovative, and most ambitious company of the Internet Age. His revelations demystify the strategy behind the company's recent flurry of bold moves, all driven... more...
Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood: Mapping the World in Household Words
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 44.95Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood examines Charles Dickens? weekly family magazine Household Words in order to develop a detailed picture of how the journal negotiated, asserted and simultaneously deconstructed Englishness as a unified (and sometimes unifying) mode of expression. It offers close readings of a wide range of materials that self-consciously... more...
Everybody Hurts
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99What is emo? For starters it's a form of melodic, confessional, or EMOtional punk rock. But emo is more than a genre of music?it's the defining counterculture movement of the '00s. EVERYBODY HURTS is a reference book for emo, tracing its angsty roots all the way from Shakespeare to Holden Caufield to today's most popular bands. There's nothing... more...
Living Oprah
Center Street 2010; US$ 11.99eBook Bonus:New Photos plus Video, Blog and Interview links. What happens when a thirty-five-year-old average American woman spends one year following every piece of Oprah Winfrey's advice on how to "live your best life"? Robyn Okrant devoted 2008 to adhering to all of Oprah's suggestions and guidance delivered via her television show, her Web... more...
Reality Hunger
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00With this landmark book, David Shields fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time. Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete? Exploring these and related questions, Shields orchestrates a chorus of voices, past... more...









