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Broadcast News
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 51.95Jargon buster: convergent journalism : ?Media convergence is the most significant development in the news industry in the last century. The ability to interchange text, audio, and visual communication over the Internet has fundamentally transformed the way news organizations operate. Convergence has enabled media companies to gather, disseminate,... more...
Roll! Shooting TV News
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 51.95Roll! Shells fly overhead as night-scopes capture deadly fire fights with an eerie green hue, a category 5 hurricane devastates the Big Easy, hidden cameras enter a Cambodian village of brothels and a veteran journalist interviews himself throughout his own brain surgery. Part non-fiction drama, part trade publication, part text book, all woven together... more...
Casanova Was A Book Lover
LSU Press 2000; US$ 15.95Everyone knows which books people buy; they can just look at the best-seller lists. But who knows which books people steal? Who, for that matter, knows that authors ruin the book market by writing too much? Or why book critics are not critical? Or why librarians need to throw out more books? Who, indeed, knows the answer to that all-important question... more...
The New Blue Media
New Press, The 2011; US$ 24.95Is a new progressive era in American life in the offing? Only time will tell, but journalist Theodore Hamm?s sharp, acerbic book suggests that a new progressive media has already arrived. Satirical, hard-charging, and unapologetically progressive, this new media movement is both reinvigorating old forms like late-night TV and documentaries and inventing... more...
Political Communication
LSU Press 2011; US$ 19.95A new era of political power has arrived, one in which the social media forces of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter indisputably play a larger role in the political process. In this revised and expanded edition of Political Communication: The Manship School Guide, edited by Robert Mann and David D. Perlmutter, contributors discuss technological changes... more...
Playing Along
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 20.99Why don't Guitar Hero players just pick up real guitars? What happens when millions of people play the role of a young black gang member in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? How are YouTube-based music lessons changing the nature of amateur musicianship? This book is about play, performance, and participatory culture in the digital age. Miller shows... more...
Girl Zines
NYU Press 2009; US$ 75.00With names like The East Village Inky , Mend My Dress , Dear Stepdad , and Im So Fucking Beautiful , zines created by girls and women over the past two decades make feminism’s third wave visible. These messy, photocopied do-it-yourself documents cover every imaginable subject matter and are loaded with handwriting, collage art, stickers,... more...
Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers
NYU Press 2006; US$ 79.00Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video). Henry Jenkins“s pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though marginal and largely invisible to... more...
Media Moguls
Taylor and Francis 1991; US$ 45.95The emergence of a few powerful individuals in control of large sections of mass communication industries has coincided with world-wide media de-regulation. In the first book to take a close look at media moguls as a species, Jeremy Tunstall and Michael Palmer show how a handful of own-and-operate entrepreneurs run their empires with a highly eccentric... more...
Media Culture
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 45.95A major contribution to the growing debate on culture and politics. Assured, fair-minded and constantly stimulating, this book will be widely read by all those interested in the subject of culture. more...









