This concise survey investigates the television general managers’ and news directors’ attitudes towards the elderly in the United States. Originally published in 1997, it raises important issues of ageing in relation to the media with specific focus on the older viewer’s status as a viewing audience of the news and how they are presented in the news. This is still useful food for thought for gerontologists, mass communication researchers, social psychologists and media studies researchers.

Product Description: This book examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements. The contributors analyze “social media revolutions” such as the Arab Spring, the 15-M movement in Spain, the Occupy Nigeria movement, and the Occupy Gezi movement in Turkey...read more

Product Description: [Read by Jorjeana Marie] Amy Purdy's powerful memoir urges us to live life to the fullest, because we are all a lot more capable than we could ever imagine.Amy Purdy, who inspired a nation on Dancing with the Stars and has been called a hero by Oprah Winfrey, reveals the intimate details of her triumphant comeback from the brink of death to making history as a Paralympic snowboarder...read more

Product Description: We offer these texts bundled together at a discount for your students. Ralph E. Hanson, Mass Communication Fifth Edition Skills to Succeed in Today’s Media World   Designed to give students the media literacy principles and critical thinking skills they need to become smart consumers of the media, Mass Communication: Living in the Media World provides comprehensive yet concise coverage of all aspects of mass media, along with insightful analysis and fun, conversational writing...read more

Mediated sex is everywhere. In popular cinema and television, the press, pop music and advertising, images of sexuality abound. Pornography has spread, not only in its mainstream, heterosexist forms, but in gay communities and in "porn for women". Cable and satellite television and the coming of the Internet have intensified the trend. It is about the proliferation of sexual discourse in all these variants, from pornography as narrowly defined to the "s/m chic" of advertising and the art of Jeff Koons and Madonna. This work examines the place of these representations in late 20th-century, post-HIV and AIDS culture, and in the context of the history of sexual representation from Greek antiquity onwards. With reference to examples from the USA and the UK, the book aims to assess the many contradictory and conflicting claims made about the impact of sexual representation on individuals and societies.

Product Description: Today, it has been said, the world is "flat," as online media allow information to move easily from point to point across the earth. International legal differences, however, are increasingly affecting the ease with which data and ideas can be shared across nations...read more

Argues that violence in media and games conditions children to take it for granted as an acceptable part of life, and trains them to be successful instigators of violence