Download or read book Meaning in the Media written by Alan Durant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the issue of what we should make of competing claims about meaning when debated in highly charged circumstances.
Download or read book Meaning in the Age of Social Media written by G. Langlois and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for meaning is an essential human activity. It is not just about agreeing on some definitions about the world, objects, and people; it is an ethical process of opening up to find new possibilities. Langlois uses case studies of social media platforms (including Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon) to revisit traditional conceptions of meaning.
Download or read book Dictionary of Media and Communications written by Marcel Danesi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible to wide range of readers from student to lay people, this authoritative reference provides a complete listing of media concepts, figures, and techniques with illustrations and historical commentaries. Written by distinguished scholar and author Marcel Danesi, and with an Introduction by Arthur Asa Berger, a leading figure in the world of media and communications, the dictionary also includes terms related to psychology, linguistics, aesthetics, computer science, semiotics, culture theory, anthropology, and more that have relevance in media studies. Each entry includes a definition in simple, clear language; an illustration where applicable; and, historical commentary (who coined a term for example, why, who uses it, etc.). A bibliography, a directory of online resources, and a time-line of media genres add to the dictionary's usefulness and appeal.
Download or read book Spreadable Media written by Henry Jenkins and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spreadable Media" maps fundamental changes taking place in the contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution. This book challenges some of the prevailing frameworks used to describe contemporary media.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Media and Communication written by Daniel Chandler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most accessible and up-to-date dictionary of its kind, this wide-ranging A-Z covers both interpersonal and mass communication, in all their myriad forms, encompassing advertising, digital culture, journalism, new media, telecommunications, and visual culture, among many other topics. This new edition includes over 200 new complete entries and revises hundreds of others, as well as including hundreds of new cross-references. The biographical appendix has also been fully cross-referenced to the rest of the text. This dictionary is an indispensable guide for undergraduate students on degree courses in media or communication studies, and also for those taking related subjects such as film studies, visual culture, and cultural studies.
Download or read book The Meaning of Media written by Anna Catharina Horn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts represented in different media and in a range of materials are treated. The topics include two chapters on epigraphy, on lead amulets and stone monuments inscribed with runes and Roman letters. In four chapters aspects of the manuscript culture is discussed, the role of authorship and of the dissemination of Christian topics in translations. The appropriation of a Latin book culture in the vernaculars is treated as well as the adminstrative use of writing in charters. In the two final chapters topics related to the emerging print culture in early post-medieval manuscripts and prints are discussed with a focus on reception. The range of topics will make the book relevant for scholars from all fields of medieval research as well as those interested in mediality and materiality in general.
Download or read book Social Meanings of News written by Daniel A. Berkowitz and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-03-05 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader presents classic news studies representing several methodologies and approaches to guide students in their initial exploration into the topics.
Download or read book Media and Meaning written by Colin Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for students and their teachers, this text can be used as an aid to class study and for independent student learning. With a strong emphasis on context and concepts, it offers an introduction to contemporary media.
Download or read book Media and Meaning An Introduction written by Colin Stewart and published by British Film Institute. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for students and their teachers, this text can be used as an aid to class study and for independent student learning. With a strong emphasis on context and concepts, it offers an introduction to contemporary media.
Download or read book Meaning in the Media written by Alan Durant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meaning in the Media addresses the issue of how we should respond to competing claims about meaning put forward in confrontations between people or organisations in highly charged circumstances such as bitter public controversies and expensive legal disputes. Alan Durant draws attention to the pervasiveness and significance of such meaning-related disputes in the media, investigating how their 'meaning' dimension is best described and explained. Through his analysis of deception, distortion, bias, false advertising, offensiveness and other kinds of communicative behaviour that trigger interpretive disputes, Durant shows that we can understand both meaning and media better if we focus in new ways on moments in discourse when the apparently continuous flow of understanding and agreement breaks down. This lively and contemporary volume will be invaluable to students and teachers of linguistics, media studies, journalism and law.
Download or read book Cultural Meanings of News written by Daniel A. Berkowitz and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is news? Why does news turn out like it does? What factors influence the creation, production, and dissemination of news? Cultural Meanings of News takes on these deceptively simple questions through an essential collection of seminal and contemporary studies by leaders in the fields of mass communication and media studies. Similar in format and purpose to editor Dan Berkowitz's award-winning Social Meanings of News, this new volume represents a conceptual update, a continuation of the discourse about the nature of news and how it comes to be, moving ideas ahead from the earlier tradition of sociological approaches to the more pervasive cultural perspectives that inform understandings about news. Cultural Meanings of News provides a carefully selected set of readings, organized into thematic areas that each probe a dimension of the literature: from sociological roots to cultural perspectives; news as narrative and cultural text; newswork as cultural ritual; news as cultural myth; news and its interpretive communities; news as a source and reflection of collective memory; toward the future of news research. This text-reader provides students and scholars with first-hand exposure to cultural approaches to the study of news, while also providing an organizing framework for understanding the commonalties and differences between threads in the research. The goals are to engage readers through guided immersion in the material.
Download or read book Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies written by James Watson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-05-26 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No student of media, communication and cultural studies can afford to be without the new edition of Watson and Hill.
Download or read book Theatre Social Media and Meaning Making written by Bree Hadley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first broad-based survey of the way artists, audiences and society at large are making use of social media, and how the emergence of social media platforms that allow two-way interaction between these groups has been held up as a ‘game changer’ by many in the theatre industry. The first book to analyse aesthetic, critical, audience development, marketing and assessment uptake of social media in the theatre industry in an integrated fashion, Theatre, Social Media and Meaning Making examines examples from the USA, UK, Europe and Australasia to provide a snapshot of this emerging niche within networked, telematic, immersive and participatory theatre production and reception practices. A vital new resource for the field, this book will appeal to scholars, students, and industry practitioners alike.
Download or read book Media written by Colin Stewart and published by Jacaranda. This book was released on 2007 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media New Ways and Meanings 3E equips students with the understanding they need to take part in the new media environments of the twenty-first century. Drawing on the main theoretical discourses in media education, Media: New Ways and Meanings 3E, takes an eclectic approach to the study of media genres. Its engagement with all aspects of the media supports student outcomes in a range of English and Media Studies courses around Australia. Abundant activities and assignments allow students to apply the concepts developed in the text, which contains inclusive coverage of: film video games the internet television radio newspapers and magazines Media New Ways and Meanings 3E develops a diversified critical literacy while encouraging students to access, analyse and create media in new and participatory ways, making it an essential and indispensable resource. Media New Ways and Meanings 3E eBookPLUS is an electronic version of the student textbook as well as a complementary set of targeted digital resources. These flexible and engaging ICT activities are available to you online at the JacarandaPLUS website (www.jacplus.com.au). Your eBookPLUS resources include: illustrations and digital samples of aspects of film language powerpoint presentations for in-class use links to relevant online resources Click here to view Media New Ways and Meanings 3E eBookPLUS.
Download or read book Media Minorities and Meaning written by Debra L. Merskin and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2011 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations. Introduction -- Constructing categories of difference -- Minorities, meaning, and mass media -- Articulations of difference -- The articulation of difference. Country music and redneck woman -- The construction of Arabs as enemies -- Perpetuation of the hot Latina stereotype in Desperate housewives -- Commodified racism : brand images of Native Americans -- The pornographic gaze in mainstream American magazine and fashion advertising -- Women, lipstick, and self-presentation -- Sun also rises : Stereotypes of the Asian/American woman on Lost -- Coon songs : the Black male stereotype in popular American sheet music (1850-1920) -- Homosexuality and horror : the lesbian vampire film -- Television news coverage of "Day without an immigrant.
Download or read book Webster s New World Dictionary of Media and Communications written by Richard Weiner and published by MacMillan Reference Library. This book was released on 1990 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only single source for definitions of the terms used in the media and communications field, this unique reference contains 25,000 definitions from broadcasting, advertising, publishing, and more.
Download or read book Media Is Us written by Elizaveta Friesem and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media is usually seen as a feature of the modern world enabled by the latest technologies. Scholars, educators, parents, and politicians often talk about media as something people should be wary of due to its potential negative impact on their lives. But do we really understand what media is? Elizaveta Friesem argues that instead of being worried about media or blaming it for what’s going wrong in society, we should become curious about uniquely human ways we communicate with each other. Media Is Us proposes five key principles of communication that are relevant both for the modern media and for people’s age-old ways of making sense of the world. In order to understand problems of the contemporary society revealed and amplified by the latest technologies, we will have to ask difficult questions about ourselves. Where do our truths and facts come from? How can we know who is to blame for flaws of the social system? What can we change about our own everyday actions to make the world a better place? To answer these questions we will need to rethink not only the term “media” but also the concept of power. The change of perspective proposed by the book is intended to help the reader become more self-aware and also empathic towards those who choose different truths. Concluding with practical steps to build media literacy through the ACE model—from Awareness to Collaboration through Empathy—this timely book is essential for students and scholars, as well as anyone who would use the new understanding of media to decrease the current levels of cultural polarization.
