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Communication. Mass media

  • 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...

  • Digital McLuhanby Paul Levinson

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 35.95

    Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and... 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...

  • Media, Communication, Cultureby James Lull

    Wiley 2013; US$ 26.95

    Media, 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...

  • 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...

  • European Mediaby Stylianos Papathanassopoulos; Ralph M. Negrine

    Wiley 2013; US$ 69.95

    European Media provides a clear, concise account of the structures, dynamics and realities of the changing face of media in Europe. It offers a timely and illuminating appraisal of the issues surrounding the development of new media in Europe and explores debates about the role of the media in the formation of a European public sphere and a European... 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...