Media & Communications

This book offers readers insights into the transformations taking place in the presentation of gender portrayals in television productions aimed at younger audiences...

Serious Games provides a thorough exploration of the claim that playing games can provide learning that is deep, sustained and transferable to the real world. With this volume, the editors address the gap in exisiting scholarship on gaming, providing an academic overview on the mechanisms and effect..

This book draws on agenda setting theory to examine how cultural organizations relate to media in order to increase their visibility, valence, and eventually build their public image. Most organizations have a keen interest in their symbolic presence, as their media visibility influences public know..

Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender is understood within the contemporary British Army. Drawing on original research, this book argues that dominant ideas about gender, evident in areas as diverse as policy documents and cultural practices, potentially limit rather than enhance op..

Lipschultz focuses on key concepts, best practices, data analyses, law and ethics—all promoting the critical thinking professionals and students need to use new networking tools effectively and to navigate social and mobile media spaces...

Tabloid Britain examines four popular tabloid newspapers and uncovers the variety of linguistic strategies they use to depict contemporary Britain.  Martin Conboy considers how this imaginary community of the British nation is drawn through themes such as 'outsiders' and 'insiders', women, celebrity..

Designed for communication/media educators and graduate students, Teaching Communication and Media Studies is a practical and conceptual guide to teaching university courses in communication and media studies. Relying on her extensive experience instructing graduate students on the ins and outs of t..

Technical Communication and the World Wide Web is a collective of sixteen chapters designed to help technical communication teachers prepare their students for twenty-first century writing for the World Wide Web by providing advice and examples in..

_x000D_ Television Studies after TV leads the way in developing new ways of understanding television in the post-broadcast era. With contributions from leading international scholars, it considers the full range of convergent media now implicated in understanding television, and also focuses on larg..

This volume presents an analysis of the children's television community--the organizations, major players, and approaches to programming--and offers an overview of the history, current state, and future of children's TV.  The Children’s Television Community is highly informative for educators, indus..

Exploring the discourse of broadcast news, with a particular focus on TV and radio, this book examines the constraints under which the news is produced. Topical examples, such as the Andrew Gilligan case illustrate the text...

Exploring the discourse of broadcast news, with a particular focus on TV and radio, this book examines the constraints under which the news is produced. Topical examples, such as the Andrew Gilligan case illustrate the text...