Specific topics highlighted:- the history of media industries and production studies;- production studies as a field and a research method;- changing media business models, economics, and management;- global concentration and convergence of media industries and professions;- the rise and role of startups and entrepreneurship;- freelancing in the digital age and the role of creativity and innovation.
The author draws together two narrative strands: one analysing contemporary news and journalism, featuring interviews with journalists and news commentators, and the other re-appraising the discipline of Media Studies itself.
This book brings together a list of researchers in international communication and global media studies to revisit, renew and advance the concept of media imperialism for 21st century research.
Drawing on case histories and academic research, Film argues that on-screen storytelling is the most ubiquitous form for art to intersect with health and well-being. The book shows how film can be utilized and enjoyed by clinicians, individuals and carers and by societies themselves.
Call Number: Central : PN1995.9.C56 R44 2018 (Book)
ISBN: 9780857856661
Publication Date: 2018
Fashion Film also includes a parallel focus on factual representations of fashion through the recent rise of documentary fashion film that goes behind the scenes to follow the processes and personalities involved in making fashion.
Call Number: Central : PN1995.9.I49 R48 2015 (Book)
ISBN: 9781554583355
Publication Date: 2015
Chapters focus primarily on Canada, Australia, and New Zealand and cover areas as diverse as the use of digital technology in the creation of Aboriginal art, the healing effects of Native humour in First Nations documentaries, and the representation of the pre-colonial in films from Australia, Canada, and Norway.
Providing a holistic picture of communication that features the crux of the matterhow to reach and capture the heart and soul of people without any attempt to manipulate their minds, it is more humanistic than many other books on communication studies.
Based on vigorous empirical research in both established and transitional democracies, it develops a theoretical framework of populist communication in the new media environment.
This book is ideal for anyone participating in social change movements or studying how they navigate communication and media inequalities.
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This edition integrates social and cultural diversity, emphasizes public speaking, expands coverage of mass and social media, and includes a new focus on health communication.
This book documents how changes in our daily behaviour caused by the proliferation of social media are reshaping individuals' personalities and causing an evolution of the character of our society as a whole.
The volume is a theoretical exploration of the classical, structuralist, culturalist, postmodernist, and postcolonial theoretical approaches to inequality and how these theoretical discourses provide a critical understanding of social inequalities in relation to narratives shaped by media and communication experiences.
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A former journalist and media worker Olivier's work has been concerned with the emergence of right-wing populism in and through affective forms of media.
Sabrina is a feminist researcher whose teaching and research interrogates the fraught visibility of sexual violence and feminism in contemporary popular culture.
My basic position is that contemporary social and political life is shaped by technological forms that attempt to hide the processes of mediation. As a consequence, media and social life become inseparable.
Contemporary popular culture, gender and media (femininity and masculinity), popular culture in Asia, political economy of media, intercultural communication, and the use of technology in instruction.
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