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Cinzia Padovani takes an in-depth look at Italian public service broadcasting, covering its history, its role in Italian society, its relationship to the political party system, and its influence on cultural and linguistic unification in Italy.

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A Violent World analyzes images on global CNN, Israeli IBA, and Palestinian PATV that contribute to how the current violence in the Middle East is framed. Nitzan Ben-Shaul draws from critical media theory and approaches out of cinema studies to examine how dominant ideologies ...

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With the rapid globalisation of commerce and culture and the increasing recognition of information as an economic resource, the grounds for defending the welfare state have shifted. Communication policy is now more widely understood as social policy.

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Helps readers understand the fascination with do-it-yourself media. Useful for students, this guide lays out the difficult theoretical terrain that community media theory and advocacy has located itself in, including the ideals of participation, community, and social change.

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This work covers the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the power concentration in large media corporations. Topics include independent media centres, gay online networks and alternative Web discussion forums, and political journalism and social networks.

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Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of "runaway productions"-the growing practice of producing American films and television programs on foreign shores. Greg Elmer and Mike Gasher have gathered a group of contributors who seek to explain the phenomenon from ...

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Looking at issues of globalization, science, politics, gender, etc. this book advocates a new agenda not only for communication research, but also for the writing that comes out of it.

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Explains conglomeration and regulation in the film and television industries, covering its history as well as the contemporary scene. Useful as a supplement for a variety of media courses, this text includes synopses of key media regulations and policies, discussion questions, a glossary, and entertaining boxed features.

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Democratizing Global Media explores the complex relationship between globalizing media and the spread of democracy around the world. An international, interdisciplinary group of journalists and scholars discusses key_and often contentious_issues such as the power of media, the...

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This analysis offers a global perspective on how people with disabilities are represented as users, consumers, viewers or listeners of new media by policymakers, corporations, programmers and the disabled themselves.

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Has copyright protection gone too far in keeping the music from the masses This book shows how the online music industry establishes the model for digital distribution, cultural access, and consumer privacy. It also explores the implications of downloading music.

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Critiques global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technology. Starting with the state of international communications, this work covers cases on online news, pornography, democracy, policies for women's development, violence against women, information workers, print media and telecentres.

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This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications, focusing on areas of the state, the market, and society. Wielding a political-economic view of communication and culture, this international group of authors follows inte...

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This volume is a primer on media governance at a global level and the key influencing forces and organizations, such as ITU, WTO, UNESCO, WIPO and ICANN. It raises key questions and suggests where more complete answers can be found.

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Revealing aspects of Harold Adam Inniss character that have largely escaped the attention of his biographers, this volume brings together Inniss previously unpublished autobiographical memoir, a selection of his WWI correspondence, and his thesis, The Returned Soldier. Detailed annotations by the volume editors flesh out the original materials.

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Exploring how social order changes as the means of communication change, this volume makes widely accessible, for the first time, three extant chapters from Harold Inniss History of Communicationsa legendary manuscript known of by many media historians, but seen by very few.

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Enriched by critical theory and the insights of cultural studies, and rooted in the power of historical explanation, this collection of classic and new essays contributes to the theory and practice of critical studies in communication, media and journalism.

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This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts co...

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Drawing articles from fields such as political science, media studies, and more, this volume analyzes the issues surrounding media's portrayal of terrorism. Answering the need of media discourse on terrorism, this volume complements readings in upper-level mass communication courses and appeals to scholars of international media and terrorism.

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This book surveys the historical roots, theoretical foundations, and normative claims of 20th-century conceptualisations of public opinion.

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Raymond Williams, a Welsh media critic and a pioneer of cultural studies, believed traditional biographies focus on individuals while isolating them from their communities. The author introduces us to Williams and his time period of social change and crisis.

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Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context.

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To reshape the field of development communication, Redeveloping Communication for Social Change proposes situating theory and practice within contexts of power, recognizing both the ability of dominant groups to control and the potential for marginal communities to resist.

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This text shows how and why US educational reforms must seek to build upon rather than downplay the native culture and language of minority students. The work includes stories from teachers and students that show what works - and what doesn't - in creating effective educational opportunties.