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: Pieter J. Fourie
Publisher: Juta Academic
Keywords: media, society, studies, history
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2010-06-01
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0702176753
ISBN-13: 9780702176753

Exploring the media as an institution, this volume also introduces the topics of media regulation and content. The nature of communications policy is explained, following overviews of internal and external media regulation. Strategic ways of managing the media are discussed in addition to the guide’s analysis of the ways that media presents issues of identity, race, gender, sexual orientation, the environment, AIDS, and terrorism.

Author: Pieter J. Fourie
Publisher: Juta Academic
Keywords: media, society, studies, history
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0702176923
ISBN-13: 9780702176920

Author: Valerie Feldma
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
Keywords: media, mobile, communication, information, economy, policy, strategy, cross, leveraging, innovation
Number of Pages: 269
Published: 2005-04-19
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 3790815756
ISBN-13: 9783790815757

Mobile communications and next generation wireless networks emerge as new distribution channels for the media. This development offers exciting new opportunities for media companies: the mobile communication system creates new usage contexts for media content and services; the social use of mobile communications suggests that identity representation in social networks, impulsive access to trusted media brands, and micro-coordination emerge as new sources of value creation in the media industries. In the light of this background, this book takes two different viewpoints on the development of mo

Authors:John Footen, Joey Faust,
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: media, professional, systems, focal, press, technology, services, web, oriented, enterprise, soa, bpm, service
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2008-03-14
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0240809777
ISBN-13: 9780240809779

Companies worldwide are rapidly adopting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a design methodology used to connect systems as services, and Business Process Management (BPM), the art of orchestrating these services. Media organizations from news organizations to music and media download services to movie studios are adapting to SOA-style architectures, but have run into roadblocks unique to the media and entertainment industry. These challenges include incorporating real-time data, moving large amounts of data at one time, non-linearity and flexibility for workflow, and unique metrics and data

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

Authors:Michael Ross, Joseph Garncarz, Manfred Grauer, Bernd
Publisher: Transcript Verlag
Keywords: media, upheavals, overview, research, medienumbruche, analysis, tools, studies, digital
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2009-02-28
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 3837610233
ISBN-13: 9783837610239

Digital tools are increasingly used in media studies, opening up new perspectives for research and analysis, while creating new problems at the same time. In this volume, international media scholars and computer scientists present their projects, varying from powerful film-historical databases to automatic video analysis software, discussing their application of digital tools and reporting on their results. This book is the first publication of its kind and a helpful guide to both media scholars and computer scientists who intend to use digital tools in their research, providing info