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A "dirty materialist" ride through the media cultures of pirate radio, photography, the Internet, media art, cultural evolution, and surveillance.

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This book analyzes and critiques media education in the university and offers tools for developing a more critical direction. Sholle and Denski present the premises of critical pedagogical theory as a framework for re-orienting media studies programs and the discussion of the role of the media in forming important social self-images.

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This book analyzes and critiques media education in the university and offers tools for developing a more critical direction. Sholle and Denski present the premises of critical pedagogical theory as a framework for re-orienting media studies programs and the discussion of the role of the media in forming important social self-images.

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Journalists tend to go from one story to the next with little time to think deeply about the impact their work has on the people they cover, or how their professional practices might be refined. But what the public sees is often negative: intrusive cameras, shouted questions, rude and aggressive behaviour.

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Certain films seem to encapsulate perfectly the often abstract ethical situations that confront the media, from truth-telling and sensationalism to corporate control and social responsibility.

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This Reader combines classic work in the field with a series of overview essays written by leading scholars, to offer a comprehensive and illuminating overview of this key area in contemporary media studies.

(Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

This is the instructor's manual to "Media Literacy: Key to Interpreting Media Messages". It includes issues on media communitcation such as violence and the media, as well as chapters on interactive media, advertising and political communication.

(Paperback, 4th edition)

Covering print, photography, film, radio, television, and new media, this textbook instructs readers on how to take a critical approach to media and interpret the information overload that is disseminated via mass communication.

(Hardback, 4th edition)

Covering print, photography, film, radio, television, and new media, this textbook instructs readers on how to take a critical approach to media and interpret the information overload that is disseminated via mass communication.

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(Hardback, 2nd edition)

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While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.

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Leading scholar is the first to take a look at the political events of 2011 and assess through the lens of the media spectacle.

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Leading scholar is the first to take a look at the political events of 2011 and assess through the lens of the media spectacle.

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(Hardback, 2nd edition)

Stripping away the hype, this book describes how, when, and why media violence can influence children of different ages, giving parents and teachers the power to maximize the media's benefits and minimize its harm.

There are many opinions about media violence and children, but not all are supported by science.

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By employing the method of autoethnography to find out what boys and men 'want' and 'say', this book offers a timely contribution to our understanding of contemporary cultural attachments, as well as informative accounts of two instances united by their apparent gender focus and by their interest in ways of imagining high-tech.

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Identifying a distinctive phenomenon in today's media culture, the authors propose a new theoretical framework for understanding mediated masculinities.

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Fox suggests specific strategies for recognizing and understanding these coded messages.

This lively and informative discussion will appeal to anyone who is interested in learning how print and electronic media manipulate both individuals and society as a whole.

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"Examines digital embodiment, digital representations, and visual vernaculars as a mode of identity performance and management online"--