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31. Journalism Studies

    A Critical Introduction

    By Andrew Calcutt, Philip Hammond

    As the world of politics and public affairs has gradually changed beyond recognition over the past two decades, journalism too has been transformed... yet the study of news and journalism often seems stuck with ideas and debates which have lost much of their critical purchase. Journalism is at a...

    Published January 26th 2011 by Routledge
32. Internet and Society

    Social Theory in the Information Age

    By Christian Fuchs

    Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

    In this exceptional study, Christian Fuchs discusses how the internet has transformed the lives of human beings and social relationships in contemporary society. By outlining a social theory of the internet and the information society, he demonstrates how the ecological, economic, political, and...

    Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge
33. Journalism Education, Training and Employment

    Edited by Bob Franklin, Donica Mensing

    Series: Routledge Research in Journalism

    During this period of rapid and significant change in journalistic practices, journalism educators are re-examining their own profession and contributing to the invention of new models and practices. This edited volume of studies by respected international scholars describes the diverse issues...

    Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
34. Paranormal Media

    Audiences, Spirits and Magic in Popular Culture

    By Annette Hill

    The paranormal has gone mainstream.Beliefs are on the rise, with almost half of the British population, and two thirds of Americans, claiming to believe in extra sensory perceptions and hauntings. Psychic magazines like Spirit and Destiny, television shows such as Fringe, Ghost Whisperer and Most...

    Published November 2nd 2010 by Routledge
35. Global Mobile Media

    By Gerard Goggin

    Gerard Goggin has produced an incisive and penetrating overview of the world according to mobiles. Covering sight, sound and status, plus a host of other issues, he provides a provocative analysis of how mobile communication gadgets come to play such a prominent role in our lives. Any scholar of...

    Published October 14th 2010 by Routledge
36. Television Personalities

    Stardom and the Small Screen

    By James Bennett

    Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture. It is an original, indispensable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media, television and celebrity studies,...

    Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
37. Entertainment and Society

    Influences, Impacts, and Innovations

    By Shay Sayre, Cynthia King

    The second edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the ways that society shapes our many forms of entertainment and in turn, how entertainment shapes society. Entertainment and Society examines a broad range of types of entertainment that we enjoy in our daily lives –...

    Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge
38. Internationalizing Internet Studies

    Beyond Anglophone Paradigms

    Edited by Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland

    Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

    This timely book offers a mapping of the Internet as it has developed and is used internationally, providing a lively and challenging examination of the Internet and Internet studies. There is much interest among scholars and researchers in understanding the place of the Internet in cultural,...

    Published January 25th 2010 by Routledge
39. Media Convergence

    The Three Degrees of Network, Mass and Interpersonal Communication

    By Klaus Bruhn Jensen

    The development of digital media presents a unique opportunity to reconsider what communication is, and what individuals, groups, and societies might hope to accomplish through new as well as old media. At a time when digital media still provoke both utopian and dystopian views of their likely...

    Published January 11th 2010 by Routledge
40. Public Journalism 2.0

    The Promise and Reality of a Citizen Engaged Press

    Edited by Jack Rosenberry, Burton St John

    Where does journalism fit in the media landscape of blogs, tweets, Facebook postings, YouTube videos, and literally billions of Web pages? Public Journalism 2.0 examines the ways that civic or public journalism is evolving, especially as audience-created content—sometimes referred to as citizen...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge