Download or read book Anatomy of Mass Media Second Revised Third Edition written by Dianah Wynter and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthology "Anatomy of Mass Media" offers selections from the most popular textbooks in the field today, written by some of the most respected writers in media studies. It addresses all forms of mass media including traditional print, electronic media such as television, film, and radio, and new forms of digital media. The text centralizes the knowledge bases and theories behind each of these forms. The goal of "Anatomy of Mass Media" is to create media-literate individuals who have the tools they need to access, analyze, interpret, and evaluate the many messages sent via mass media. The book teaches students how to analyze and interpret media messages, prepares them to produce credible and responsible critiques and theories on forms of media and messaging, and inspires them to create powerful and effective media messages of their own. Topics include: Advertising, Sponsorship and Public Relations; A Short History of Films; Media Research; The Role of Ethics in Mass Media; Mass Media Law; and Multimedia Careers. Of special interest are the contributions by a variety of professors and top media professionals who provide guidance on pursuing careers in entertainment, the persuasion industries, and the media at large in career boxes' featured throughout the book. This prepares students to break into the industry of their choice, and decisively choose a career that suits their skills, personality, and professional and lifestyle goals. Dianah Wynter is the holder of two MFA degrees, one from the American Film Institute, and another from the Yale School of Drama. She is an associate professor at California State University, Northridge, where she teaches in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts. Her course offerings include Advanced Television Directing, Introduction to Television Production, Media and Society, and Introduction to Mass Media Film as Literature. Professor Wynter has directed many hours of episodic television, including work on Showtime's hit series "Soul Food, The Secret World of Alex Mack," and "The Parkers." She received an Emmy Nomination as Best Director for her work on "Daddy's Girl," an ABC television movie. Professor Wynter's feature film "HappySad" opened theatrically in 2009."
Download or read book Anatomy of Mass Media Revised Third Edition written by Dianah Wynter and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anatomy of Mass Media written by Dianah Wynter and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anatomy of Mass Media is a new anthology for the undergraduate Introduction to Mass Communication course. The selections included in Anatomy of Mass Media are culled from some of the most popular textbooks in higher education today and written by some of the most respected writers in media studies. The book covers all categories of mass media, from print media (books, magazines, and newspapers), to electronic media (radio, film, and television) and digital media (internet, satellite, and gaming). In addition to the diverse educational writers contributing to this anthology, a number of creative professionals give guidance on pursuing careers in entertainment, the persuasion industries, and media at large. Dianah Wynter is an associate professor at California State University, Northridge where she teaches in the Department of Cinema and Television Arts. Courses she has taught include Advanced Television Directing, Introduction to Television Production, Media and Society, and Introduction to Mass Media Film as Literature. Wynter holds MFAs from the American Film Institute and the Yale School of Drama. She has received an Emmy Nomination for Best Director for Daddys Girl, (an ABC television movie) and has directed many hours of episodic television, including Showtimes hit series Soul Food, The Secret World of Alex Mack, and The Parkers. Her feature film HappySad opens theatrically in 2009 in the Caribbean.
Download or read book Communication and Social Structure written by Emile G. McAnany and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anatomy of Sound written by Jacob Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays examines one of the most important, yet understudied, media authors of all time--Norman Corwin--using him as a critical lens to consider the history of multimedia authorship, particularly in the realm of sound. Known for seven decades as the 'poet laureate' of radio, Corwin is most famous for his radio dramas, which reached tens of millions of listeners around the world and contributed to radio drama's success as a mass media form in the 1930s and 1940s. But Corwin was a pioneer in multiple media, including cinema, theater, TV, public service broadcasting, journalism, and even cantata. In each of these areas, Corwin had a distinctive approach to sonic aesthetics and mastery of multiple aspects of media production, relying in part on his inventive atmospheric effects in the studio both prerecorded, and, more impressively, live in real time. From the front lines of World War II to his role as Chief of Special Projects for United Nations Radio and his influence on media today, the political and social aspect of Corwin's work is woven into these essays. With a foreword by Michele Hilmes and contributions from Thomas Doherty, Mary Ann Watson, Shawn VanCour, David Ossman and others, this volume cements Corwin's reputation as perhaps the greatest writer in the history of radio, while also showing that his long career is a neglected model of multimedia authorship."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Anatomy of Fake News written by Nolan Higdon and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, concerns about fake news have fostered calls for government regulation and industry intervention to mitigate the influence of false content. These proposals are hindered by a lack of consensus concerning the definition of fake news or its origins. Media scholar Nolan Higdon contends that expanded access to critical media literacy education, grounded in a comprehensive history of fake news, is a more promising solution to these issues. The Anatomy of Fake News offers the first historical examination of fake news that takes as its goal the effective teaching of critical news literacy in the United States. Higdon employs a critical-historical media ecosystems approach to identify the producers, themes, purposes, and influences of fake news. The findings are then incorporated into an invaluable fake news detection kit. This much-needed resource provides a rich history and a promising set of pedagogical strategies for mitigating the pernicious influence of fake news.
Download or read book History and Future of Mass Media written by David Demers and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the no-Marxists mostly have it wrong. Although corporate media are structurally organized to maximize profits and produce content that generally helps elites achieve their goals, this does not mean corporate media have less capacity to facilitate social change than entrepreneurial or other forms of media. In fact, historical evidence and comparative critical studies presented in this book show that mass media become more, not less, critical of dominant power groups, institutions and value systems as they become more "corporatized."This proposition is part of a larger theoretical model that integrates the role of both social structure and human agency in explaining the persistence of modern capitalism. The structural part of the theory also enables scholars to make predictions about the future of mass media, including the ideas that the Internet is "stealing" some of the mediating power of traditional mass media, and the market power of global media will grow in absolute terms but will shrink in relative terms because of increasing competition from new and traditional media.
Download or read book The Mass Media written by Peter Golding and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1974 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Who Owns the Media written by Benjamin M. Compaine and published by White Plains, NY : Knowledge Industry Publications. This book was released on 1982 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Reality of the Mass Media written by Niklas Luhmann and published by Cultural Memory in the Present. This book was released on 2000 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Luhmann argues that the system of mass media is a set of recursive, self-referential programs of communication, whose functions are not determined by the external values of truthfulness, objectivity, or knowledge, nor by specific social interests or political directives.
Download or read book Theater of the Mind written by Neil Verma and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-06-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a “theater of the mind.” This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In Theater of the Mind, Neil Verma applies an array of critical methods to more than six thousand recordings to produce a vivid new account of radio drama from the Depression to the Cold War. In this sweeping exploration of dramatic conventions, Verma investigates legendary dramas by the likes of Norman Corwin, Lucille Fletcher, and Wyllis Cooper on key programs ranging from The Columbia Workshop, The Mercury Theater on the Air, and Cavalcade of America to Lights Out!, Suspense, and Dragnet to reveal how these programs promoted and evolved a series of models of the imagination. With close readings of individual sound effects and charts of broad trends among formats, Verma not only gives us a new account of the most flourishing form of genre fiction in the mid-twentieth century but also presents a powerful case for the central place of the aesthetics of sound in the history of modern experience.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Media Effects written by Jennings Bryant and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass medias potential to influence audience beliefs and behavior is a subject that has long fascinated scholars and the general public. The ongoing interest and concern are reflected in the common tendency to blame the media for many of societys problems. This extensively revised and updated edition cuts through popular notions of presumed effects to provide a balanced, informed, up-to-date treatment of the media effects literature. The clear, compelling presentation, illuminated by dozens of new photographs, equips readers with a fundamental understanding of the history, theoretical underpinnings, and current status of media effects researchknowledge that will help them navigate in a media-saturated environment. Several outstanding elements distinguish the Second Edition of Fundamentals of Media Effects. New chapters explore the impact of computer/video games, the effects of the Internet and social networking sites, and the way mobile communication devices have transformed the way we live. An extensive new chapter on childrens educational television describes the considerable body of research that supports positive effects like language development and flexible-thinking skills. Framing studies are covered in a separate chapter where they are distinguished both theoretically and experimentally from agenda setting and priming. Finally, the authors provide overviews of classic and current research studies in an invaluable feature called Research Spotlight, which enable readers to envision how theories translate into research.
Download or read book Media Today written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media Today puts students at the center of profound changes in the twenty-first century media world -from digital convergence to media ownership- and gives them the skills to think critically about what these changes mean for the role of media in their lives.
Download or read book Tilted Mirrors written by John Crothers Pollock and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2007 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Other frame-building patterns - Violated Buffer, Vulnerability, Protection and Stakeholder - also illuminate critical issues (e.g., banning smoking advertising to children, the Supreme Court stopping presidential vote counting in 2000, capital punishment, Patient's Bill of Rights, gun control, Arctic oil drilling, trying juveniles as adults, gays in the Boy Scouts, and those with HIV/AIDS). Positioned at the crossroads of communication/journalism, political science and sociology disciplines, Tilted Mirrors is a supplemental text for courses in mass media, media effects, communication or journalism research methods, political communication or sociology of communication."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Media and Social Inequality written by John Pollock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is among the first to systematically explore the impact of community inequality on reporting political and social change. Although most journalism scholars are still fascinated by the impact of media on society, Media and Social Inequality explores the reverse perspective: the impact of society on media. Using a 'community structure' approach, and rejecting the perspective that studies of media and audiences can be reduced to the individual level of psychological phenomena, all contributions examine connections between community-level 'macro' characteristics and variations in the coverage of critical issues. This innovative book differs from previous community structure volumes in two ways. First, contributions explore a far wider range of community characteristics by employing creative methodologies, modern archives, and databases that facilitate larger, more diverse samples; multilevel and longitudinal analyses; composite measures of both 'content' and editorial judgment; new technologies; and social network analysis. Second, a traditional emphasis on media as instruments of political and social 'control' is replaced by media as potential mirrors of social 'change,' exploring 'bottom-up' measures of 'vulnerability', 'concentrated disadvantage', and 'ethnic diversity/pluralism'. The volume contains two original chapters: one on nationwide US coverage of the "Occupy" movement in the expanded introduction, and another on nationwide US coverage of universal health care. This book was originally published as a special issue of Mass Communication and Society.
Download or read book Mass Communications and Media Studies written by Peyton Paxson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Peyton Paxson succinctly describes the forces deconstructing the establishment media while providing a grounded introduction to mass communication." Bick Treut Communication Studies, Raritan Valley Community College, New Jersey Mass Communications and Media Studies: An Introduction serves as a primary text for media studies courses at two-year colleges. It briefly surveys the history of mass communication media, discusses the current state of each medium, and anticipates the future of mass media. Its focus is a study of the mass media industry and the role it plays in society, which distinguishes it from books that focus solely on communications theory. The book's presentation addresses the needs of both students and faculty members. It includes helpful pedagogical features at the end of each chapter, containing discussion questions and links to additional online resources. The format of the book allows it to be used in courses that analyze the mass media through social and cultural criticism as well as in courses that emphasize the economic structure of the mass media industry. Mass Communications and Media Studies: An Introduction is comprehensive yet concise. Divided into twelve chapters, it can be used in either 16-week semesters or 12-week terms. Focused in its approach and comprehensive in its coverage, this is the textbook of choice for mass communication and media studies students.
Download or read book McQuail s Mass Communication Theory written by Denis McQuail and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-05-20 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated edition provides a comprehensive, non-technical introduction to the range of approaches to understanding mass communication.
