Product Description: When David Byfield sees Isobel for the first time at a party, he decides that he has fallen in love with her. An attractive and successful layer, David is being groomed for a political career; his experience with love and intimacy, however, is limited...read more

Living in disguise blocks from her home, Francesca Woodbridge, supposedly in Greece, spies on her husband, a lawyer recovering from a gunshot wound inflicted by an intruder; her teenage son; and her lover, a Russian gardener.

Traces the life and career of the country singer who has become America's most successful solo musical artist, recounts the stories behind some of his most popular songs, and reveals how he has coped with success

This text encourages students to take more active roles as media consumers and gives them a deeper understanding of the role that the media play in both shaping and reflecting culture. Through this cultural perspective, students learn that audience members are as much a part of the mass communication process as are the media producers, technologies, and industries. This was the first university-level text to make media literacy central to its approach. Building on this tested emphasis, the fifth edition features a newly merged chapter on Cable and Television, a new chapter on The Evolving Mass Communication Process, updates on recent technologies and government rulings, including the Patriot Act, the Supreme Court ruling on Peer-2-Peer file-sharing on Grokster, "net neutrality," municipal WiFi, new advertising industry metrics such as ROI, BitTorrent, video news releases, and much more!

Does a new media culture truly exist? This book explores the newness of new media, looking critically at key concepts and theory to show how it digitality affects our lives. Filled with visual examples that explore ideas of interactivity, surveillance and power, it is key reading for students of media and cultural studies.

Product Description: IIn „Cultural Studies und Medienanalyse“ wird der medienanalytische Ansatz der Cultural Studies umfassend vorgestellt. Bezogen auf den Gegenstand„Medien“ werden einerseits die Theorieansätze der Cultural Studies diskutiert und ihre forschungsgeschichtliche Entwicklung bis heute dargelegt...read more

Product Description: The "demotic turn" is a term coined by Graeme Turner to describe the increasing visibility of the "ordinary person" in the media today. In this dynamic and insightful book he explores the "whys" and "hows" of the "everyday" individual's willingness to turn themselves into media content through celebrity culture, reality TV, DIY websites, talk radio, and user-generated materials online...read more

Product Description: Comics emerged parallel to, and in several ways intertwined with, the development of modern urban mass societies at the turn of the 20th century. On the one hand, urban topoi, self-portrayals, forms of urban cultural memories, and variant readings of the city (strolling, advertising, architecture, detective stories, mass phenomena, street life, etc...read more

Product Description: An anonymous musician plays Pachelbel's Canon on the electric guitar in a clip that has been viewed over sixty million times. The Dramatic Gopher is viewed over sixteen million times, as is a severely inebriated David Hasselhoff attempting to eat a hamburger...read more

Product Description: For current coverage of controversial and important issues centering on media, look to the balanced reporting, complete overviews and engaging writing that Cq Researcher has consistently provided for more than eighty years. This brief reader allows studen

Product Description: Crisis in the Global Mediasphere examines the evolution of contemporary global crises as an effect of mediation and cultural change. The book argues that a crisis consciousness has emerged through the interaction of crisis conditions and a more expansive human desire for pleasure...read more

Product Description: How Daniel Lerner's seminal work contributed to the overall professionalization of communication theory and sociology

Media Nations: Communicating Belonging and Exclusion in the Modern World provides an original interdisciplinary introduction to the study of the media and nationalism in the modern world. Building on a range of international case studies and taking into account recent debates about globalization, cosmopolitanism and alternative modernities, Sabina Mihelj offers aninsightful analysis that:   * Argues for the continuing relevance of concepts such as nationalism and national identity in understanding the global patterns of mediated communication and identification* Bridges the gap between text-based analysis of national imagination and the more sociological concerns with the impact of media institutions and the broader political and economic context* Challenges the tacit ethnocentrism of existing debates, and opens up the study of nationalism and mass communication to the multiple trajectories of modernity around the globe Media Nations is an important and timely contribution to debates on the media, nationalism and modernity.