Author: Professor John D. H. Downing
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: culture, media, amp, series, society, power, theory, transition, internationalizing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1996-12-23
List price: $47.95
ISBN-10: 0803987110
ISBN-13: 9780803987111

DO NOT USE SUBTITLE IN BROCHURES!In this provocative book John Downing explores the many roles of the media within the fundamental political, economic and cultural changes that took place during the turbulence in Eastern Europe between 1980 and 1995. He examines the central elements underlying these changes: power, the state, societal change, the economy, institutionalized racism, ethnic insurgency, secrecy and surveillance.Internationalizing Media Theory critically evaluates media theories in relation to political and economic transitions, and challenges political science approaches for their

Authors:Gorham Kindem PhD, Robert B. Musburger PhD,
Publisher: Focal Press
Keywords: media, production, digital, path, fourth, introduction
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2009-02-04
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0240810821
ISBN-13: 9780240810829

Introduction to Media Production began years ago as an alternative text that would cover ALL aspects of media production, not just film or just tv or just radio. Kindem and Musburger needed a book that would show students how every form of media intersects with one another, and about how one needs to know the background history of how film affects video, and how video affects working in a studio, and ultimately, how one needs to know how to put it all together. Introduction to Media Production is the book that shows this intersection among the many forms of media, and how students can use this

Authors:Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: politics, media, communication, society, three, systems, comparing, models
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2004-04-12
List price: $33.99
ISBN-10: 0521543088
ISBN-13: 9780521543088

Proposing a framework for comparative analysis of the relationship between the media and the political system, this book surveys media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies. It identifies the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. It then pinpoints three major models of media systems development (the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist and Liberal models) and explains why the media play a different role in politics in each of these systems.

Authors:Kartic C. Khilar, H. Scott Fogler,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: porous, media, transport, applications, theory, migration, fines
Number of Pages: 186
Published: 1998-10-31
List price: $98.00
ISBN-10: 079235284X
ISBN-13: 9780792352846

This monograph presents a concise and thorough treatment of release, migration and entrapment of fine particles in natural porous media. The first chapter treats the practical consequences of release and migration of fine particles in porous media. This is followed by a discussion of the basic mechanisms of release, transport and entrapment of fines. Mathematical and network models for prediction of permeability reduction are subsequently discussed. The last two chapters cover methods to prevent the release of fines and address the consequences for soil pollution. This comprehensiv

Authors:David Thorburn, Henry Jenkins,
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: transition, media, aesthetics, change, rethinking
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-10-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0262701073
ISBN-13: 9780262701075

The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors’ introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition—patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms, and cultures. The book includes case studies of such earlier media as the book, the phonograph, early cinema, and television. It also examines contemporary digital forms, exploring their promise and strangeness. A final section probes aspects of visual culture in such environments as the evolving museum, movie

Authors:Robert Wollan, Nick Smith, Catherine Zhou,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: social, media, working, business, need, handbook, management, everything
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2011-01-04
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0470651245
ISBN-13: 9780470651247

How do organizations manage social media effectively? Every organization wants to implement social media, but it is difficult to create processes and mange employees to make this happen. Most social media books focus on strategies for communicating with customers, but they fail to address the internal process that takes place within a business before those strategies can be implemented. This book is geared toward helping you manage every step of the process required to use social media for business. The Social Media Management Handbook provides a complete toolbox for defining and

Authors:Dr. Colin Hoskins, Dr. Stuart M. McFadyen, Dr. Ada
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: media, economics, traditional, applying, new
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-06-16
List price: $67.95
ISBN-10: 0761930965
ISBN-13: 9780761930969

How does the Internet affect the supply of information-based entertainment and cultural goods? Why do telephone companies have peak and off-peak prices for long-distance calls? Why is broadcasting-but not newspaper publishing-usually regulated and sometimes subsidized? Media Economics: Application of Economics to New and Traditional Media provides a thorough foundation of the microeconomic principles and concepts needed to understand media industries and issues in the converging media environment. Media Economics differs from ordinary media economic texts by taking a conceptual approach to ec