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41. 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
42. 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
43. 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
44. 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
45. 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
46. 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
47. Watching TV Is Not Required

    Thinking About Media and Thinking About Thinking

    By Bernard McGrane, John Gunderson

    Series: Contemporary Sociological Perspectives

    This book uses a social world–today's undergraduate students' ubiquitous everyday experience of television–as a vehicle for helping awaken students to the true possibilities for learning and their responsibilities inherent in achieving those goals. The book also introduces students to the social...

    Published October 20th 2009 by Routledge
48. Communicating Science

    New Agendas in Communication

    Edited by LeeAnn Kahlor, Patricia Stout

    Series: New Agendas in Communication Series

    This volume explores the evolution of science communication, addressing key issues and offering substance for future study. Harnessing the energies of junior scholars on the forefront of science communication, this work pushes the boundaries of research forward, allowing scholars to sample...

    Published September 14th 2009 by Routledge
49. Production Studies

    Cultural Studies of Media Industries

    Edited by Vicki Mayer, Miranda J. Banks, John T Caldwell

    "Behind-the-scenes" stories of ranting directors, stingy producers, temperamental actors, and the like have fascinated us since the beginnings of film and television. Today, magazines, websites, television programs, and DVDs are devoted to telling tales of trade lore—from on-set antics to labor...

    Published May 26th 2009 by Routledge
50. The Changing Faces of Journalism

    Tabloidization, Technology and Truthiness

    By Barbie Zelizer

    Series: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies

    The collection is introduced with an essay by Barbie Zelizer and organized into three sections: how tabloidization affects the journalistic landscape; how technology changes what we think we know about journalism; and how ‘truthiness’ tweaks our understanding of the journalistic tradition. Short...

    Published April 30th 2009 by Routledge