Author: Nick Couldry James Curran
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: media, critical, studies, world, alternative, power, contesting, networked
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-11
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 0742523853
ISBN-13: 9780742523852

Contesting Media Power explores the worldwide growth of alternative media that challenge the power concentration in large media corporations. Media scholars and political scientists analyze alternative media in Australia, Chile, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Sweden, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Topics include independent media centers, gay online networks and alternative web discussion forums; feminist film, political journalism and social networks; indigenous communication and church-sponsored media. This important book will help shape debates on the media

Author: Dr Nick Couldry
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: cultural, studies, method, imagining, culture, inside
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-11-13
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0761963863
ISBN-13: 9780761963868

Inside Culture offers a fresh and stimulating reassessment of the direction of cultural studies. Concisely and in approachable language, it attempts to think beyond what many now see as a `crisis of method’ in the subject. Couldry argues without apology for cultural studies as a discipline centred around the interrelations of culture and power, with a clear focus on accountable empirical research that deals with the real complexities of contemporary lives - `inside’ culture.Individual chapters discuss the broad conceptual issues around `cultures’, `texts’, `the self

Author: Nick Couldry
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: approach, critical, rituals, media
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2003-02-21
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415270154
ISBN-13: 9780415270151

Media Rituals rethinks our accepted concepts of ritual behavior for a media-saturated age. It connects ritual directly with questions of power, government, and surveillance and explores the ritual space which the media construct and where their power is legitimated. Drawing on sociological and anthropological approaches to the study of ritual, Nick Couldry applies the work of theorists such as Durkheim, Bourdieu and Bloch to a number of important media arenas: the public media event; reality TV; Webcam sites; talk shows and docu-soaps; media pilgrimages; and the construction of celebrity.

Authors:Nick Couldry, Andreas Hepp, Friedrich Krotz,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: comedia, global, events, media
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-11-20
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0415477107
ISBN-13: 9780415477109

We live in an age where the media is intensely global and profoundly changed by digitalization. Not only do many media events have audiences who access them online, but additionally digital media flows are generating new ways in which media events can emerge. In times of increasingly differentiated media technologies and fragmented media landscapes, the ‘eventization’ of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and everyday appreciation of popular media texts. The events covered include Celebrity Big Brother, 9/11, the Iraq war and World Youth Day 2005 to give readers an

Author: JAMES CURRAN
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: society, communication, power, media
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2002-10-18
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0415077400
ISBN-13: 9780415077408

What kind of influence do the media have in society? Are they agencies of freedom and control in social welfare democracies? Critical media studies is in a state of ferment. Studies exposing class bias in the media have given way to a stress on the ambivalence and inconsistency of media representations of the world. Above all, the questioning of the totalizing themes of marxism has undermined many of the established terms of reference of critical guide to the debates that are causing researchers to question old models of understanding the media and to seek new ones. Using both case studies and

Author: James Michael Curran
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: forensic, science, investigation, international, scientists, analysis, introduction, data
Number of Pages: 331
Published: 2010-07-30
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1420088262
ISBN-13: 9781420088267

Statistical methods provide a logical, coherent framework in which data from experimental science can be analyzed. However, many researchers lack the statistical skills or resources that would allow them to explore their data to its full potential. Introduction to Data Analysis with R for Forensic Sciences minimizes theory and mathematics and focuses on the application and practice of statistics to provide researchers with the dexterity necessary to systematically analyze data discovered from the fruits of their research. Using traditional techniques and employing examples and tutorials wit

Authors:James Curran, David Morley,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: theory, cultural, media
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-12-21
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 0415317053
ISBN-13: 9780415317054

Containing new thinking and original surveys, Media & Cultural Theory brings together leading international scholars to address key issues and debates within media and cultural studies. Through the use of contemporary media and film texts such as Bridget Jones’ Diary and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and using case studies of the USA and the UK after September 11th, James Curran and David Morley examine central topics including: media representations of the new woman in contemporary society the creation of self in lifestyle media the nature of globalization the rise of digital