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Essays examine how the mass media represents sexuality, gender, and identity and how it intervenes in our perception of popular culture.

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This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence.

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A study of Australian cinema exploring the relationship between a series of films produced in different periods of Australian history that are linked by a common thread - the repeated image of sheep. It focuses on two key 'sheep films': ""The Squatter's Daughter"" (Hall, 1933) and ""Bitter Springs"" (Smart, 1950).

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Based on an analysis of Irish republican media outlets and interviews with the key activists that produced them, this book provides a snap shot of a political ideology in transition as it is moulded by the forces of the peace process and often violent internal ideological schism that threatened a return to the 'bad old days' of the troubles.

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This book provides a compelling picture of Irish republican activist media outlets like newspapers, magazines and Internet journals and the role that they played ideologically during the tumultuous years that followed the end of the 30-year civil war that was the Troubles and signing of the Good Friday Agreement. -- .

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What does money really stand for How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in Britain and the United States. It tells the story of how artists have grappled with the increasing

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Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America is the first book-length study of one of the most unique communications enterprises in U.S. history.

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Demonstrates how social media is transforming political engagement in Africa using unique case studies from across the region.

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The first collection dedicated to analysing the casual, social, and mobile gaming movements that are changing games the world over.

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"A philosophical analysis of sonically charged concepts to map a theory of "sound affects.""--

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Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, and focusing on Iraq, offers detailed insights into the impact of different media forms.

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Fusing perspectives from politics, media studies and cultural studies, and focusing on Iraq, offers detailed insights into the impact of different media forms.

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This study, written by a Russian expert on the media, analyzes the unique role of the mass media--television and the press--in the social, political, and economic changes that began in the Soviet Union in 1985 under the name of perestroika and culminated recently in the country's dissolution.

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The media star has become a powerful, almost unparalleled, cultural sign, even as the star system has undergone radical transformation since the era of the Hollywood studio system.

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This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.

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This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.