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The only comprehensive overview of media changes in Latin America, charting the course of the Pink Tide in economic, political, and legal regimes from Mexico and Nicaragua to Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Argentina.

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The contributors show that digital media are disrupting entire media industries, but without erasing the past and insist that one media sector is not the same as the next. As the title signals even in the age of convergence and remix culture, different media continue to display their own distinctive political economies.

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Hearns-Branaman presents a full-scale application of Herman and Chomskys propaganda model to the Peoples Republic of China, examining the effects of concentrated media ownership, profit motive, the influence of advertisers and flak-generating groups, sourcing patterns of media, and dominant ideology.

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Hearns-Branaman presents a full-scale application of Herman and Chomskys propaganda model to the Peoples Republic of China, examining the effects of concentrated media ownership, profit motive, the influence of advertisers and flak-generating groups, sourcing patterns of media, and dominant ideology.

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This examination of key CBS broadcasts and the people behind them that helped to establish the network as the prototype for excellence provides a unique perspective on the early era of broadcasting.

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"How dating apps are empowering women and sexual minorities in China, even as they reveal and reproduce systematic sexism and heteronormativity"--

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Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.

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Untangles the jargon, and provides you with the knowledge to participate in the production of practical media products. This work is a guide to understanding how the media works and how people in the media talk to each other about their industry. It also includes specialist jargon found in a TV studio, and on location.

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The difficulty for students and new entrants to the industry is that the day-to-day working language, the customised roles and the specific deployment of skills and specialist activities can seem at first daunting and inpenetrable. The Practical Media Dictionary' is an essential guide to understanding how the media works and how people in the media talk to each other about their industry.

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In this volume an international array of scholars provides case studies from various countries of social inequalities and how they shape media narratives and experiences. The topics include how social inequalities relate to gender and empowerment, poverty and the media, and discriminatory access to media technologies.

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In this volume an international array of scholars provides case studies from various countries of social inequalities and how they shape media narratives and experiences. The topics include how social inequalities relate to gender and empowerment, poverty and the media, and discriminatory access to media technologies.

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The author discusses the role of economic concentration in limiting public access to information and reducing opportunities for public discourse.

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Perhaps no drama catches the interest of the American public more than a spectacular trial.

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How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books.

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Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.

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American society is often characterized as a guilt culture, as opposed to non-Western shame cultures. But through examples like shaming penalties in criminal law, fat shaming, and cyberbullying on the social media, this book shows how and why shame is increasingly invading our lives, leading to feelings of humiliation and depression.

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Describes and explores the origins, growth, and cultural impact of the true crime genre in American popular culture. This book examines the various genres of true crime using examples. It is suitable for those who read and enjoy true crime, and wish to learn more about it.

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An interdisciplinary collection of essays on telepistemologythe study of knowledge acquired at a distance.

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Offers key historical and interpretative texts on the development and role of "the screen" in communications and the social sphere.

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Offers key historical and interpretative texts on the development and role of "the screen" in communications and the social sphere.

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This concentrated focus upon colonial attitudes and thoughts toward the press covers the period of colonial settlement from the 1500s through 1765.