'This comprehensive, easily accessible book will be a helpful companion to students and researchers alike... [a] superb guide to "The Media in Europe".' - Journal of European Affairs Completely rewritten, the Third Edition of this successful guide to European media systems has also been expanded to include Central and Eastern Europe as well ......
Media's reach penetrates nearly every corner of the world. But it has also been a contested realm, embodying class politics and the interests of monopoly capital. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the economic and political powers that seek to consolidate private control of media with increasing profit - all at the expense of democracy.
This collection of dialogues is the only textbook of its kind. Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method takes students into the minds of top internet researchers as they discuss how they have worked through critical challenges as they research online social environments. Editors Annette N. Markham and Nancy K. Baym illustrate that good research choices are not random but are deliberate, studied, and internally consistent. Rather than providing single "how to" answers, this book presents distinctive and divergent viewpoints on how to think about and conduct qualitative internet studies. Key Features and Benefits Presents each chapter in the form of a question in order to provoke explicit consideration of key issues Illustrates choices made within larger disciplinary contexts to help students blend approaches, think broadly, and conduct internet research with the benefit of multiplicity Offers a range of perspectives in each chapter to vividly demonstrate that there are many ways to answer methodological challenges well Includes contributors from multiple disciplines and across the globe Provides a highly reflexive writing style that allows readers to see processes that are rarely visible in finished research reports Intended Audience This edited volume is an excellent supplementary text for a variety of advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Internet Research, Research Methods, Qualitative Research Methods, and Computer-Mediated Communication in the departments of communication, media studies, sociology, and anthropology. It will assist new scholars as well as seasoned practitioners in this arena make informed choices in how they conduct inquiry.
The Economics and Politics of Convergence and Concentration in the UK and European Media
This book offers an up-to-date and timely critical overview of the contemporary media environment. The author: - examines the socio-political and cultural implications of media concentration - analyses how policy makers have responded - investigates the commercial and strategic advantages of consolidation - assesses the relationship between media ......
In this book, Chris Atton offers an introduction to alternative media: one which is not limited to 'radical' media, but can also account for newer cultural forms such as zines, fanzines, and personal web- sites. Alternative Media: * examines how and why people produce and use alternative media - to make meaning, to interpret, and to change the ......
This book examines the complex and dynamic relationship between the popular press and popular culture. Martin Conboy rejects approaches to popular culture which restrict themselves to the contemporary, arguing for the importance of an historical perspective in understanding the contemporary relationship between the popular and the press. ......
Media Strategies, Representation and Audience Reception in the AIDS Crisis
This work examines the process of interaction between the media and the social world. Using detailed analysis of the struggle over representation during the AIDS crisis, the four authors reveal the power of the media to influence public opinion, and the complex interaction between coverage and audience responses. They examine: the promotional strategies of interest groups; the production of media coverage; the meanings promoted by the media; and the impact on policy, culture and society.
This insightful book is the first to critically examine the ideas of some of the key thinkers of simulation. It addresses the work of Baudrillard, Debord, Virilio and Eco, clarifying their arguments by referring to the intellectual and social worlds each emerged from distilling what is important from their discussions. The book argues for a ......
"These editors have the respect, visibility, and track-record to make this volume a contribution to the field of Internet studies. It will be adopted as an upper-division text and can also serve as a valuable reference work for doctoral students. Given its broad mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches, this work should have wide appeal ......
