Media Theory

This volume presents original, ‘big picture’ perspectives on news framing. Each chapter in this volume will feature an individual or team of framing analysts who take a reflective look at their own empirical work. The editors' goals are to identify the influences that determine the use of different ..

This book provides a cutting-edge theoretical and methodological framework for understanding media reception from a feminist communication and media studies perspective. This book was first published as a special issue of Feminist Media Studies...

Broadcasting courses (undergrad); also may appeal to professionals (programmers, station managers, on-air people)..

This study highlights dramatic changes in worldwide media production, detailing how collaborations—in the form of co-productions, format franchising and audience interactivity—define the new media economy, and affect a shift across the entire field of cultural production. These developments also ref..

This study highlights dramatic changes in worldwide media production, detailing how collaborations—in the form of co-productions, format franchising and audience interactivity—define the new media economy, and affect a shift across the entire field of cultural production. These developments also ref..

This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation — the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action. Authors from across th..

This book teaches students how to make the difficult ethical decisions that journalists routinely face. By taking a case-based approach, the authors argue that the best way to make an ethical decision is to look closely at a particular situation, rather than looking first to an abstract set of ethic..

This book teaches students how to make the difficult ethical decisions that journalists routinely face. By taking a case-based approach, the authors argue that the best way to make an ethical decision is to look closely at a particular situation, rather than looking first to an abstract set of ethic..

This book is among the first systematically to explore the impact of community inequality on reporting political and social change. It was originally published as a special issue of Mass Communication and Society...

Media Criticism in a Digital Age introduces readers to a variety of critical approaches in analyzing audio and video discourse on radio, television and the Internet. It applies key aesthetic, sociological, philosophical, psychological, structural and economic principles to arrive at a comprehensive ..

This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how people interact with public screens in their daily lives...

This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how people interact with public screens in their daily lives...