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This completely revised and timely second edition explores how wars have been reported, interpreted and perpetuated from the dawn of the media age to the present digital era. Spanning a broad geographical and historical canvas, Carruthers analyses the forces that shape the production of news and images of war.

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In a postmodern age where the media's depictions of reality serve as stand-ins for the real thing for so many Americans, how much government policy is being made on the basis of those mediated realities and on the public reaction to them

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The world of communication scholarship can be divided into two main schools, the empirical school and the critical school.

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This book is an introduction to the key debates and dimensions in media studies. Posing questions about the nature of culture in modern society, it looks at the historical development of the various media, their relationship with modernity and the critical commentaries that have evolved as a result of their public and private presence.

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Our media tend to deal in prefabricated versions of reality - false assumptions of habitual values rather than open-minded observation. This work is about the major entities of the Australian media, their roles and influence in our lives, and the issues of journalistic practice that shape their content.

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"Microgenres: A Quick Survey presents a previously untreated point of cultural curiosity, revealing the profound truth that humanity's desire to classify is often only matched by the unsustainability of the obscure and hyper-specific."--

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Through feedback-oriented communication, this book explores advertising from the perspective of information flows, rather than the more common approach of symbolic representation. It explores the relatively recent phenomenon of online behavioural advertising (OBA).

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The Netflix Effect examines the scope and influence of Netflix, a company at the forefront of the changing relationships between media and technology.

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An analysis of divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers and what this means for media and democracy in the digital age.

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A former senior editor at the Gallup Poll exposes how pollsters don't report public opinion, they manufacture it.

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Their story is one of three interacting players: the Croatian government which until recently has sat firmly in control, the compliant press which seemed little motivated to change, and the largely quiescent public which demanded little from its press or its government.

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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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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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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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This collection presents a critical and historicising investigation of contemporary debates on affect, power and agency in queer, feminist and antiracist media cultures. Through a range of in-depth case studies, the book explores the potential as well as the constraints of vulnerability as a new political language. -- .

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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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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.