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Television is often cited as a cause of violent crime or behaviour. Usually, this connection is made in the context of the behaviour of young people - as another way of blaming them for the broader ills of society. It is rare, however, for even a single reference to television to be included in the index of reports on juvenile crime.

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Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance, and Paradox is a contribution to the debate on Chinese media expansion into Africa. Interviews bring to light the paradoxical nature of Chinese media organizations that both preach equality with Africa and simultaneously promote Chinese hegemony in the media.

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At the time of Marshall McLuhan's death in 1980, his was a major voice in our understanding on media and society. While the author dismisses McLuhan's basic theory that the medium is the message, he points to McLuhan's importance, and argues for a re-examination of McLuhan as an artist and a poet.

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Despite the growth of digital media, traditional FM radio airplay still remains the essential way for musicians to achieve commercial success. Climbing the Charts examines how songs rise, or fail to rise, up the radio airplay charts. Looking at the relationships between record labels, tastemakers, and the public, Gabriel Rossman develops a clear pi

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How is the relationship between the Japanese state and Japanese society mediated by the press Does the pervasive system of press clubs, and the regulations underlying them, alter or even censor the way news is reported in Japan This book presents an overview of the relationship between the press, politics, and the public.

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This book draws from, and is supported by, a decade of ethnographic research undertaken with videogames development companies located in Australia and the USA. It explores key contemporary issues in participatory media culture, including questions of technology, labour and professional expertise.

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This edited collection analyzes how communication and gender influence work-life balance decisions for men and women in todays culture. Touching on key topics in work-life balance research, contributors explore case studies that expose the challenges and progress influencing families today.

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This edited collection analyzes how communication and gender influence work-life balance decisions for men and women in todays culture. Touching on key topics in work-life balance research, contributors explore case studies that expose the challenges and progress influencing families today.

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This edited collection focuses on varying communication perspectives in the Fifty Shades of Grey series including rhetoric, consent, romance, news coverage, and sexual education.

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Investigates the modern history of communication in relation to the thinking of the political community in the United States.

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This book considers the importance of communication technology that allows users to become socially competent in ways that transcend digital and physical modes of communication.

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"This book makes concepts from other languages and cultures available and fruitful for (media) philosophical issues by presenting concepts drawn from the cultures of 4 continents and 26 different languages"--

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Using a format closely resembling a legislative history, Ronald Garay traces the progress of congressional television from its inception in 1922, when the first resolution seeking approval to broadcast House floor proceedings was introduced, to 1979, when legislation allowing that coverage was finally passed.

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This book examines how Twitter is used to create shared understandings of race and gender. An in-depth, qualitative investigation of discussions about popular culture, social justice, politics, and advertising campaigns provides insight to the nature of Twitters digital culture and its potential to serve as a virtual public sphere.

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This book examines how Twitter is used to create shared understandings of race and gender. An in-depth, qualitative investigation of discussions about popular culture, social justice, politics, and advertising campaigns provides insight to the nature of Twitters digital culture and its potential to serve as a virtual public sphere.

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The book concludes that historical concepts of the child television viewer are products of discourse and cannot be taken to reflect objective, scientific truths about the child viewer. Widely disseminated constructs of the passive viewer, the active viewer, the interactive viewer, and the media literate viewer are seen as problematic.

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