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Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age

Simon Cottle

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2009), xiv, 199 pp.

"Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age sets out to better understand the media’s role in the circulation and communication of these global challenges to humanity as well as the conflicts and contentions that surround them. Concerned as we are with crises that transcend national bor ... more

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The Media in Russia

Anna Arutunyan

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2009), viii, 205 pp.

Digital Cultures: Understanding New Media

Glen Creeber, Royston Martin (eds.)

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2009), xii, 205 pp.

"From Facebook to the iPhone, from YouTube to Wikipedia, from Grand Auto Theft to Second Life, this book explores media's important issues and debates. It covers topics such as digital television, digital cinema, game culture, digital democracy, the World Wide Web, digital news, online social networ ... more

Understanding Alternative Media

Olga Guedes Bailey, Bart Cammaerts, Nico Carpentier

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2008), 196 pp.

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The Media in Latin America
Quick Overview

Jairo Lugo-Ocando (ed.)

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2008), xiv, 275 pp.

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The Bollywood Reader

Rajinder Dudrah, Jigna Desai (eds.)

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2008), xi, 301 pp.

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Understanding the Local Media

Meryl Aldridge

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2007), 193 pp.

"Chapter 1 argues that, nevertheless, for most people, most of the time, their immediate locality is very important. Here social change and political decisions become real; it is in actual localities that people function as citizens. A local public sphere is therefore vital to democracy, however far ... short of the conditions for Habermas’s ‘ideal speech’ it falls. From this follows the thread that runs through the rest of the book: to what extent can the local media in the contemporary UK contribute to this ‘space’? Chapter 2 explains the organizational and financial architecture of the regional press. Still profitable, still popular, how is the industry dealing with the proliferation of competing media platforms and convergence of technologies? The editorial strategies developed to accommodate these pressures in the context of wider social and economic change is considered in Chapter 3, which concludes with a case study of Birmingham and its newspapers. Faced with an increasing diversity, what techniques are used to ‘imagine’ the community? Does attempting to address everyone push human interest topics into the foreground at the expense of information and debate? Chapter 4 reviews the rapidly changing regulatory framework for regional broadcasting. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is being cast as the main player, but it is questionable whether it can devote extensive additional resources to news-gathering, given that its status and funding is legitimated by its nationwide responsibilities. Regional news on television is very popular with audiences, but they are not wholly satisfied with it. Chapter 5 argues that current analogue television regions and a ‘family audience’ together produce an interpretive frame in which the affective and subjective is bound to edge out content useful to the public as citizens. Only the BBC provides an adequate local radio news service, but its potential is limited by the target audience. The nations of the UK, the subject of Chapter 6, vividly demonstrate that every aspect of media, ownership, regulation and content is highly politicized. A case study of S4C illustrates both the importance of, and difficulties in sustaining, public service broadcasting. Chapter 7 opens with a review of the vital place that local media still occupy in journalism’s mythology. Many regional journalists take special pride in their work, despite deteriorated conditions, inadequate pay levels, and increasing concerns about whether the work-force, whether in print or broadcast, is properly diverse in all its meanings. Finally, Chapter 8 considers the future of both publicly funded and commercial regional media as new communications technologies drive potentially dramatic changes in audience behaviour and sources of revenue. It concludes that, if inclusive citizenship is to be sustained, blogs, citizen journalism and community media are, as yet, no substitute for conventional media forms." (introduction, page 2-3) more

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Key Themes in Media Theory

Dan Laughey

Maidenhead, Berkshire et al.: Open University Press (2007), vii, 235 pp.

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Evidence-Based Health Communication

Brian Brown, Paul Crawford, Ronald Carter

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2006), 205 pp.

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Mediatized Conflict: Developments in Media and Conflict Studies
Top Insights

Simon Cottle

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2006), x, 217 pp.

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Mobile and Wireless Communications: An Introduction

Gordon A. Gow, Richard K. Smith

Maidenhead, Berkshire: Open University Press (2006), xiii, 170 pp.

"Providing a succinct introduction to the field of mobile and wireless communications, this book: begins with the basics of radio technology and offers an overview of key scientific terms and concepts for the student reader; addresses the social and economic implications of mobile and wireless techn ... more

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Media Audiences

Marie Gillespie (ed.)

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2005), 250 pp.

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Media Discourses: Analysing Media Texts

Donald Matheson

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2005), x, 206 pp.

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Critical Readings: Media and Gender

Cynthia Carter, Linda Steiner (eds.)

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2004), 366 pp.

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Critical Readings: Media and Audiences

Virginia Nightingale, Karen Ross (eds.)

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2003), 301 pp.

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Violence and the Media

Cynthia Carter, C. Kay Weaver

Buckingham (UK); Philadelphia, Pa: Open University Press (2003), xiii, 206 pp.

"Why is there so much violence portrayed in the media? What meanings are attached to representations of violence in the media? Can media violence encourage violent behaviour and desensitize audiences to real violence? Does the ‘everydayness’ of media violence lead to the ‘normalization’ of v ... more

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Ethnic Minorities and the Media

Simon Cottle (ed.)

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2000), 251 pp.