When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values? Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture? Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good? This book asks these questions.

Reveals what actually goes on inside our heads when we see an advertisement, hear a marketing slogan, taste two rival brands of drink, or watch a programme sponsored by a major company. This book shows the extent to which we deceive ourselves when we think we are making considered decisions.

Science communication has become increasingly popular in journalism and mass communication as the media offer more scientific and technological information to the public. This volume explores the evolution of science communication, addressing key issues and offering substance for future study.

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Published as a special issue of Journalism Studies , this collection of essays explores the language of journalism as the outcome of a series of discourse processes.

YouTube, blogging, Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Second Life and other new new media are transforming just about every aspect of our culture from the way we elect Presidents to how we watch television. New New Media details the benefits, opportunities, and dangers of these transformations.

Provides a foundation for students embarking on post-16 Media courses. This book introduces students to various explanations, definitions and demonstrations of key concept areas. It talks about the essential media skills of textual analysis, production and evaluation. It includes case studies, revision tips and glossaries of key terms.

The 'eventization' of the media is important for the marketing and appreciation of popular media texts. This title gives readers an understanding of the major debates in this high-profile area of media and cultural research.

AQA Media Studies for AS is the only set of resources to have been developed with, and exclusively endorsed by, AQA making them the first choice to support the new AQA specification for AS and A2.

Covering topics from women's rights to terrorism, and countries from Israel to Saudi Arabia, these authors explore the global and regional ramifications of the proliferation of communication technologies and the information they disseminate.

Encompasses the traditional forms of media and entertainment and reveals how the rise of the internet, mobile devices, social networking, audience networks, user generated content, ubiquitous networks and the 'adaptive web', amongst other advances, has affected them forever.

Media Lens is a media monitoring outfit. They are believers in Chomsky's Propaganda Model of the media, that the corporate media, as profit-driven institutions, tend to serve and further the agendas of the interests of dominant, elite groups in the society. This book shows how this plays out in practice through their dialogues with individuals.

Offers background knowledge of the various issues and topics relevant to Spanish Language media.

Over the past decade, there has been a huge increase in ordinary people's access to video production technology. These essays explore the theoretical significance of this trend and its impact on society, as well as examining a wide range of case studies, from camcorders and camera phones to YouTube and citizen journalism.

Supports the OCR AS Media Studies specification. Key features of this book include: illustrations in full colour throughout; in-depth case studies and examples; useful tips on how to improve the quality of production work; and an accompanying interactive CD with features such as demonstrations of production techniques and audio .

The study of media effects is one of the most central to the discipline of communication and encompasses a vast array of theoretical perspectives, methodological tools, and application to important social contexts. This book emphasizes the changing nature of media landscape.

Community media represent a rich site of analysis into contemporary media culture. This book examines community media from theoretical, empirical, historical, and practitioner perspectives. It explores the intersection between community media and issues of democratic theory and the public sphere, and cultural politics and social movement theory.

The Internet is an everyday part of our contemporary lives. This book explores how it is shaped and embedded within society, fostering new social worlds and ways of talking. Using a wide range of examples to examine economic, political and cultural issues, this book is crucial reading for all those studying society, media and technology.

The Media: an introduction, 3e, has been fully updated and expanded to include brand new chapters on: Approaches to Media; Media Form; Models of Media Institutions; The Media in Europe; Photography; Newspapers; Magazines; Book Publishing; Radio; Television; The Internet; News Media; Economics; Policy; Public Service Broadcasting in Europe; Censorship; Audience Research; Sexuality; Gender; Social .

Shows how the experience of speed has always been political and how it has affected the modern culture. The author describes how speed changed understandings of space, distance, chance, and violence; how the experience of speed was commodified in the dawning era of mass consumption; and how people were incited to abhor slowness and desire speed.