Authors:Jostein Gripsrud, Lennart Weibull,
Publisher: Intellect Ltd
Keywords: media, changing, europe, books, intellect, european, markets, public, spheres, crossroads
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 2010-04-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1841503053
ISBN-13: 9781841503059

Using a sample of European newspapers and their TV listings as a stepping stone, Media, Markets and Public Spheres presents an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. With in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relations between media, and changes in media policies, this book explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society. Media, Markets and Public Spheres will be useful to students in media and communication studies and European studies, as well as for those studying sociology and political sci

Author: Jostein Gripstrud
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: comedia, knowledge, common, television
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-06-21
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415189292
ISBN-13: 9780415189293

Television and Common Knowledge considers how television is and can be a vehicle for well-informed citizenship in a fragmented modern society. Contributors first examine how common knowledge is assumed and produced across the huge social, cultural and geographic gulfs that characterize modern society, and investigate the role of television as the primary medium for the production and dissemination of knowledge. Later contributions concentrate on specific TV genres such as news, documentary, political discussions, and popular science programs, considering the changing ways in which they attempt

Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Phoenix
Keywords: maya
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $12.50
ISBN-10: 0753811464
ISBN-13: 9780753811467

Thrown together for three days on the paradise island of Taveuni, a lonely Norwegian biologist, a bereaved English novelist, and a strange and beautiful Spanish couple so much in love they seem to have evolved a private language, fill the long Pacific nights by playing bridge, telling stories, and discussing ideas. This brief encounter is no mere interlude, but the start of an intertwined story, full of illusion and allusion, that will unfold many months later. Part tragedy, part mystery, and, above all, a love story, Maya debates and unravels the questions that give meaning to the lives of it

Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Siruela
Keywords: solitude, spanish, mystery, solitario, del, misterio
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2000-06-30
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 8478445161
ISBN-13: 9788478445165