Product Description: The Guardian is the liberal newspaper of choice for many on the left in Britain, but it is a forced choice. Those many readers more radical than the paper's editorial line have nowhere else to go: they are prisoners of the Guardian...read more

The author's interviews with artists, critics, and theorists--including Jonathan Peizer, Frank Hartmann, Paulina Borsook, Susan George, and many others--reveal new insights into the political, aesthetic, and cultural issues surrounding new media. (Social Science)

Shining light into the darkest corners of New York's 'Silicon Alley, the authors expose the high-living, highball guzzling, high-flying internet entrepreneurs who made the NASDAQ tremble while building their own shaky financial empires. Reprint.

Product Description: The Twelfth Edition examines the legal implications of changes in media systems and services wherever they occur. It both traces communications law issues to their sources and considers their future directions. The text reviews the historical and constitutional foundations of free expression, and the implications of mass communications law for the citizen...read more

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Product Description: What does the media coverage of a crisis situation reveal about the nature of dominant-minority relations locally, regionally, and nationally? Sandra Lambertus asks this question of the media coverage of the largest RCMP operation in Canadian history - the 1995 Gustafsen Lake Native Indian standoff...read more

Product Description: Towering over the skyline of the greatest city on earth, the World Trade Center stood as twin pillars of international commerce and prosperity. From investment bankers to portfolio traders, the leaders of the business world made deals that touched the lives of all the other nations and peoples of the world...read more

A lively, humorous social history of the 'single life' for American women uses journals, newspaper articles, interviews, advertisements, and other popular media to paint a vivid portrait of life outside the sanction of marriage. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Book by Trimble, Patrick A.

Product Description: This second edition of a widely acclaimed collection of essays reports on how new media--fax machines, satellite television, and the Internet--and the new uses of older media--cassettes, pulp fiction, the cinema, the telephone, and the press--shape belief, authority, and community in the Muslim world...read more

Argues that journalists, because of their liberal ideolgies and their fear of offending minority groups, get stories wrong or ignore stories worthy of coverage.

The mass media in different countries reflects dominant concerns of contemporary societies. Ideas of `environmentalism' are often broad and imprecise, holding neither meaning nor currency. Environmentalism and Mass Media sheds new light on the diverse ideas of `environmentalism', the way environmental ideas circulate, and public reaction to environmental concerns conveyed by the media. Drawing on unique interviews with journalists, media pictures, and public opinion surveys in both UK and India, the authors outline the differing cultural, religious and political contexts against which `world views' form present a fascinating picture between North and South. Mass media and communication technology is in danger of locking Northern countries into a ghetto of environmental self-deception, thereby perpetuating poverty in the South. The South's goal remains the attainment of development; the North sees `environmental' problems occuring `elsewhere' - in Eastern Europe and developing countries. Whether or not `environmentalism' becomes a universal cause depends on how and to what extent such sharply contrasting world views can converge.

Outlines alternative media resources, aside from the conventional newspapers and television programs, listing everything from independent to activist sources and providing descriptions, web sites, and subscription information.

Product Description: Understanding Women's Magazines investigates the changing landscape of women's magazines. Anna Gough-Yates focuses on the successes, failures and shifting fortunes of a number of magazines including Elle, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Frank, New Woman and Red and considers the dramatic developments that have taken place in women's magazine publishing in the last two decades...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A social and intellectual assessment of the Web and its impact on business, government, and culture introduces readers to the contributions of Zannah, Tim Bray, Danny Yee, and Claudiu Popa, contending that Web technology is unexpectedly reflective of human nature. Reprint.

Furnishing an incisive analysis of American cultural politics since the 1960s, especially from the perspective of censorship, the music insider and CEO of Artemis Records defends pop culture against those who would use entertainment as a scapegoat for social problems. 25,000 first printing.

Latrell Sprewell. Allen Iverson. John McEnroe. Even Mohammed Ali and Mike Schmidt and Michael Jordan. These are characters of our national imagination, athletes who stand as symbols of our complex relationship with professional sport. In this erudite and captivating book, bestselling author Larry Platt takes us on a tour through American sports. Offering profiles of the athletes we love (and love to hate), Platt shows that sport, more than any other nationwide pastime, is the way we come to understandOCoand alterOCorace relations, gender, and, most profoundly, how we communicate with each other in ways that are often given too little credit in the minds of intellectuals. Thought-provoking and richly written, "New Jack Jocks" offers a textured picture of how athletes live their lives and how we live out and define American culture by the way we come to understand their lives in and out of the halls of play." (view table of contents)

Stanley Cohen's study of Mods and Rockers in the 1960s was a foundational text both in terms of investigating the workings of subcultural groups and identifying the concept of a 'moral panic' generated by the media, which leads to groups being vilified in the popular imagination, and inhibits rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent. The insights Cohen provides into subculture and mass morality are as relevant today as they were when the book was originally published in 1972, as illustrated by the author's introduction for this new edition, in which he tracks moral panics over the last thirty years, commenting on the demonization of young offenders and asylum seekers and on the News of the World's 'name and shame' campaign against paedophiles.Revisiting the theory of moral panic and exploring the way in which the concept has been used, this new edition features a select bibliography of key texts for further reading. The third edition of Folk Devils and Moral Panics makes available a valuable and widely recommended text.

Two former investigative journalists journey inside the world of contemporary new media to explain why we receive the frequently unsatisfactory news we do, why news reporting is deteriorating, the values that dominate the news business, and how to restore the serious, incorruptible, and revelatory journalism that is crucial to American society. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: Fans of popular music tend to agree on one thing: popular music is a bellweather of an individual's political and cultural values. In the USA, for example, one cannot think of the counterculture apart from its music. For that reason, in virtually every country in the world, some group identifies popular music as a source of potential danger and wants to regulate it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Seeks to identify the most effective practices of counter-terrorism through a better understanding of the September 11 attacks, drawing on the findings of eight top historians and policymakers to define the objectives of policy decisions in post-September 11 America. Reprint. 40,000 first printing. (view table of contents)