In this book, all the key issues and debates in media studies are covered in a lively and accessible style, including the main features of global media corporations and approaches to the study of media effects, consumer power, celebrity, ...
Author: Dan Laughey
Publisher: Oldacastle Books
ISBN: 9781842434062
Category: Social Science
Page: 160
View: 522
With TV, internet, phone, radio, movies, music, magazines, and newspapers—just to name a few—how does one begin to understand today’s all-embracing media culture? In this book, all the key issues and debates in media studies are covered in a lively and accessible style, including the main features of global media corporations and approaches to the study of media effects, consumer power, celebrity, journalism, and new media. From surveillance to simulation, genre to gender, political economy to the postmodern, the reader will be guided through a matrix of intellectual endeavor on all media matters. Whether for a student, researcher, or practitioner, this handy reference guide offers a journey through a complex but fascinating subject.
This is a manageable introduction to all the theories and approaches that make up media studies. The book is accompanied by extensive textual and online resources to give readers guidance at every step.
Author: Mark Balnaves
Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education
ISBN: 9781137094926
Category: Social Science
Page: 400
View: 828
This is a manageable introduction to all the theories and approaches that make up media studies. The book is accompanied by extensive textual and online resources to give readers guidance at every step. Offering a truly global approach, this is a cutting edge text for today's students seeking to understand worldwide media, past and present.
With this guide media students learn the history of the media and learn how to keep up with the latest trends and developments in broadcasting, printed press, and film.
Author: Pieter Jacobus Fourie
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN: 0702156558
Category: Social Science
Page: 638
View: 680
This outcomes-based textbook provides comprehensive information on the makeup of media institutions, theories in media studies, and critical issues that face the media today. With this guide media students learn the history of the media and learn how to keep up with the latest trends and developments in broadcasting, printed press, and film. Outlined is how to develop an internal media policy with company mission statements, news, and programming policies. The relationship of the media to the economy, politics, and society and how the media represents race, gender, violence, and terrorism are also discussed.
It is the sheer familiarity of media that can make them so challenging to study. Media Studies demands that you adopt new ways of looking at the familiar. The theories, methods and approaches that you will encounter in this book will help
you ...
Author: Joanne Hollows
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 9781473618992
Category: Social Science
Page: 336
View: 648
Written by an academic and researcher with over twenty years' experience in teaching and convening Media Studies courses, Media Studies: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added-value features like case studies, and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam. The book uses a structure that mirrors the way Media Studies is taught on many university courses. Chapters include essential coverage of the history, organization and production of the media industries, and regulation of the media. The analysis of media texts is covered in detail, as are the issues of identity and gender, the idea of globalization and the shifting face of social media in its many contexts.
"Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches provides an introduction in key concepts and theories in the study of media, culture and communication from a decolonial perspective.
Author: Sarah Chiumbu
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190443537
Category: Mass media
Page: 340
View: 379
"Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches provides an introduction in key concepts and theories in the study of media, culture and communication from a decolonial perspective. It challenges the key theories and concepts that have shaped and defined the fields of media, communications and cultural studies globally. It also introduces canonical approaches to the study of media, communication and culture while simultaneously presenting post-colonial, de-colonial and global south approaches to those canons."--Provided by Publisher.
The lively articles show that media/cultural studies is an exciting and relevant arena, and this text should enable students and citizens to become informed readers and critics of their culture and society.
Author: Rhonda Hammer
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 0820495263
Category: Social Science
Page: 644
View: 986
This anthology is designed to assist teachers and students in learning how to better understand and interpret our common culture and everyday life. With a focus on contemporary media, consumer, and digital culture, this book combines classic and original writings by both leading and rising scholars in the field. The chapters present key theories, concepts, and methodologies of critical cultural and media studies, as well as cutting-edge research into new media. Sections on teaching media/cultural studies and concrete case studies provide practical examples that illuminate contemporary culture, ranging from new forms of digital media and consumer culture to artifacts from TV and film, including Barbie and Big Macs, soap operas, Talk TV, Facebook, and YouTube. The lively articles show that media/cultural studies is an exciting and relevant arena, and this text should enable students and citizens to become informed readers and critics of their culture and society.
Approaches to mediated teaching and learning are then investigated by
considering different learning theories and approaches . A development
perspective of teaching / learning follows , which deals with suggested goals or
aims ; learners ...
Author: Pieter Jacobus Fourie
Publisher: Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN: 0702156566
Category: Social Science
Page: 588
View: 677
The second volume of a two-part, outcomes-based series in media studies. It includes theoretical approaches as well as a production section that focuses on basic techniques.
This groundbreaking volume – part reader, part textbook - helps you to engage thoroughly with some of the major voices that have come to define the landscape of theory in media studies, from the public sphere to postmodernism, from mass ...
Author: Brett Mills
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317860488
Category: Social Science
Page: 704
View: 725
What does the Frankfurt School have to say about the creative industries? Does the spread of Google prove we now live in an information society? How is Madonna an example of postmodernism? How new is new media? Does the power of Facebook mean we're all media makers now? This groundbreaking volume – part reader, part textbook - helps you to engage thoroughly with some of the major voices that have come to define the landscape of theory in media studies, from the public sphere to postmodernism, from mass communication theory to media effects, from production to reception and beyond. But much more than this, by providing assistance and questions directly alongside the readings, it crucially helps you develop the skills necessary to become a critical, informed and analytical reader. Each reading is supported on the facing page by author annotations which provide comments, dissect the arguments, explain key ideas and terminology, make references to other relevant material, and pose questions that emerge from the text. Key features: Opening chapters: ‘What is theory?’ and ‘What is reading?’ bring alive the importance of both as key parts of media scholarship Pre-reading: substantial Introductory sections set each text and its author in context and show the relevance of the reading to contemporary culture Post-reading: Reflection sections summarise each reading’s key points and suggests further areas to explore and think about 4 types of annotations help you engage with the reading – context, content, structure, and writing style .... as well as questions to provoke further thought Split into 4 sections – Reading theory, Key thinkers and schools, Approaches and Media Theory in context New to the second edition: New chapters on New Media, and Audiences as Producers Reading Media Theory will assist you in developing close-reading and analytic skills. It will also increase your ability to outline key theories and debates, assess different case studies critically, link theoretical approaches to a particular historical context, and to structure and present an argument. As such, it will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, cultural studies, communication studies, the sociology of the media, popular culture and other related subjects.
Maybe you have picked up this book because you're starting a course in Media Studies (given the title, it's a fair guess). ... But the critical media student brings to
this everyday engagement a range of academic theories and approaches.
Author: Julian McDougall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415681261
Category: Social Science
Page: 211
View: 334
There have been seismic shifts in what constitutes (the) media in recent years with technological advances ushering in whole new categories of producers, consumers and modes of delivery. This has been reflected in the way media is studied with new theories, concepts and practices coming to the fore. Media Studies: The Basics is the ideal guide to this changing landscape and addresses core questions including: Who, or what, is the media? What are the key terms and concepts used in analysing media? Where have been the impacts of the globalization of media? How, and by whom, is media made in the 21st century? Featuring contemporary case studies from around the world, a glossary and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal introduction to media studies today.
The Essential Introduction for WJEC Antony Bateman, Sarah Casey Benyahia,
Claire Mortimer, Peter Wall. THEORIES AND APPROACHES TEXTUAL
ANALYSIS: VISUAL, TECHNICAL AND AUDIO CODES 1 In this. Part 1: Theories
and ...
Author: Antony Bateman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136706448
Category: Social Science
Page: 320
View: 148
This full colour, highly illustrated textbook is designed to support students through their WJEC AS in Media Studies. Individual chapters cover the following key areas: Textual Analysis: Visual, Technical and Audio codes Textual Analysis: Narrative and Genre Codes Approaches to Representation Approaches to Audience Response Case Studies on Representation and Audience: Gender, Age, Ethnicity, Identity, Events and Issues Passing MS1: Media Representations and Receptions Production Work, Evaluation and report Specially designed to be user-friendly, AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for WJEC includes activities, key terms, case studies and sample exam questions. It introduces the course, tackles useful approaches to study, key content covered in the specification, and guides the student in approaching and planning the exam and production work through analysis, prompts and activities.
Media Studies is here to stay and scholars in the discipline have a vital contribution to make. The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies surveys and evaluates the theories, practices, and future of the field.
Author: John D. H. Downing
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 9781452206646
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 640
View: 784
The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies examines the theories, practices, and future of this fast-growing field. Editor John Downing and associate editors Denis McQuail, Philip Schlesinger, and Ellen Wartella have brought together a team of international contributors to provide a varied critical analysis of this intensely interesting field of study. The Handbook offers a comprehensive review within five interconnected areas: humanistic and social scientific approaches; global and comparative perspectives; the relation of media to economy and power; media users; and elements in the media mosaic ranging from popular music to digital technologies, from media ethics to advertising, and from Hollywood and Bollywood to alternative media.
Many scholars have outlined and elucidated on the plurality and heterogeneity of
disciplines, studies and theories (cf. Prommer 2012: 24). When recapitulating approaches of media reception and media communication in the following, ...
Author: Susanne Eichner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783658046736
Category: Social Science
Page: 250
View: 752
What happens to our sense of agency, our general ability to perform actions in our life worlds, in the course of media reception and appropriation? Whilst considering media communication as a special form of social action, this work reconsiders the key concepts of social action theory, pragmatism, communication theory as well as film, game and television theory. It thus integrates agency as the key to understanding ‘doing media’ and at the same time conceptualizes agency as a specific mode of involvement across media boundaries. This approach amalgamates miscellaneous ideas and conceptions such as interactivity, participation, cognitive control, play or empowerment and applies the theoretical considerations on the basis of textual analyses of the films Inception and The Proposal, the TV shows Lost and I’m a Celebrity and the video games Grand Theft Auto IV and The Walking Dead.
The fields of human-computer interaction (HCI), communication studies, and media studies each have their own, fully ... theories, but rather to be inspired by
and draw on the theoretical approaches. traditional mass media communication,
and ...
Author: Kelsey, Sigrid
Publisher: IGI Global
ISBN: 9781599048642
Category: Education
Page: 1130
View: 771
Technology has changed communication drastically in recent years, facilitating the speed and ease of communicating, and also redefining and shaping linguistics, etiquette, and social communication norms. The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication provides academics and practitioners with an authoritative collection of research on the implications and social effects computers have had on communication. With 69 chapters of innovative research contributed by over 90 of the world's leading experts in computer mediated communication, the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication is a must-have addition to every library collection.
The book summarizes clearly and methodically the range of existing theories; explains how and why the diverse currents and schools of thought emerged; and contextualizes all the major approaches, including those of cultural studies and ...
Author: Armand Mattelart
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446232441
Category: Communication
Page: 192
View: 980
This textbook provides students with a concise introduction to the development of communication theory. Written in an engaging style, it offers an account of the development of all the major theoretical approaches in communication and media studies. The book summarizes clearly and methodically the range of existing theories; explains how and why the diverse currents and schools of thought emerged; and contextualizes all the major approaches, including those of cultural studies and political economy, in their historical, social and intellectual setting. Theories of Communication is an essential text for all students of media, communication and cultural studies. It will also be welcomed by anyone seeking to understand the changes that have accompanied the rise of the so-called information society'.
Author: Angharad N. ValdiviaPublish On: 2008-04-15
Sex & Money (Meehan and Riordan, 2002) makes a forceful argument that
political–economic studies can also be infused by a feminist analysis. ...
concludes with an impassioned reminder that the uses of and the theories about
the new technologies remain in human hands. ... Political–economic approaches
to the study of media focus on the concentration of ownership and control over
the production of ...
Author: Angharad N. Valdivia
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781405171953
Category: Social Science
Page: 608
View: 386
A Companion to Media Studies is a comprehensive collectionthat brings together new writings by an international team toprovide an overview of the theories and methodologies that haveproduced this most interdisciplinary of fields. Tackles a variety of central concepts and controversies,organized into six areas of study: foundations, production, mediacontent, media audiences, effects, and futures Provides an accessible point of entry into this expansive andinterdisciplinary field Includes the writings of renowned media scholars, includingMcQuail, Schiller, Gallagher, Wartella, and Bryant Now available in paperback for the course market.
Approaches to the Study of Religion in the Media by ALF G. LINDERMAN It
seems appropriate to say that a new field of ... Likewise , what the audience does
with the flow of media messages and how meaning is developed has come into
focus in media studies . As Stewart Hoover and Knut Lundby put it , this nexus
involves a triangulation of theories of religion , theories of culture and theories of
media .
Author: Peter Antes
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110181754
Category: Religion
Page: 497
View: 660
Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Iwrote theories/methods, rather than choosing one or other of the words, because
most of the approaches discussed here ... The first part of the chapter deals with
what might be understood as the 'standard' approaches media studies uses for ...
Author: Rosalind Gill
Publisher: Polity
ISBN: 9780745612737
Category: Philosophy
Page: 296
View: 806
Written in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates. Eschewing a straightforwardly positive or negative assessment the book explores the contradictory character of contemporary gender representations, where confident expressions of girl power sit alongside reports of epidemic levels of anorexia among young women, moral panics about the impact on men of idealized representations of the 'six-pack', but near silence about the pervasive re-sexualization of women's bodies, along with a growing use of irony and playfulness that render critique extremely difficult. The book looks in depth at five areas of media - talk shows, magazines, news, advertising, and contemporary screen and paperback romances - to examine how representations of women and men are changing in the twenty-first century, partly in response to feminist, queer and anti-racist critique. Gender and the Media is also concerned with the theoretical tools available for analysing representations. A range of approaches from semiotics to postcolonial theory are discussed, and Gill asks how useful notions such as objectification, backlash, and positive images are for making sense of gender in today's Western media. Finally, Gender and the Media also raises questions about cultural politics - namely, what forms of critique and intervention are effective at a moment when ironic quotation marks seem to protect much media content from criticism and when much media content - from Sex and the City to revenge adverts - can be labelled postfeminist. This is a book that will be of particular interest to students and scholars in gender and media studies, as well as those in sociology and cultural studies more generally.
Likewise, what the audience does with the flow of media messages and how
meaning is developed has come into focus in media studies. As Stewart Hoover
and Knut Lundby put it, this nexus involves a triangulation of theories of religion,
...
Author: Peter Antes
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110211719
Category: Religion
Page: 503
View: 872
Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Overall, the book illustrates how the politics of gender operate within the current media landscapes and how feminist theorizing shapes academic inquiry of these landscapes.
Author: Dustin Harp
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319908380
Category: Social Science
Page: 276
View: 731
Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research tackles the breadth and depth of feminist perspectives in the field of media studies through essays and research that reflect on the present and future of feminist research and theory at the intersections of women, gender, media, activism, and academia. The volume includes original chapters on diverse topics illustrating where theorization and research currently stand with regard to the politics of gender and media, what work is being done in feminist theory, and how feminist scholarship can contribute to our understanding of gender as a mediated experience with implications for our contemporary global society. It opens for discussion how the research, theory, and interventions challenge concepts of gender in mediated discourses and practices and how these fit into the evolving state of contemporary feminisms. Contributors engage with discussions about contemporary feminisms as they are understood in media theory and research, particularly in a field that has changed rapidly in the last decades with digital communication tools and through cross-disciplinary work. Overall, the book illustrates how the politics of gender operate within the current media landscapes and how feminist theorizing shapes academic inquiry of these landscapes.
The text initially outlines some major themes in feminist media studies and the ways in which they offer specific models for understanding the media.
Author: Liesbet van Zoonen
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446240002
Category: Feminist criticism
Page: 208
View: 583
Feminists have long recognized the significance of the media as a site for the expression of - or challenges to - existing constructions of gender. In this broad-ranging analysis, Liesbet van Zoonen explores the ways in which feminist theory and research contribute to the fuller understanding of the multiple roles of the media in the construction of gender in contemporary societies. The text initially outlines some major themes in feminist media studies and the ways in which they offer specific models for understanding the media. The author goes on to examine the key questions posed by a gendered approach within communication and cultural studies. Issues explored include: theories of transmission, representation, construction and discourse; the structures of media organization and production; the analysis of media representations through content analysis and semiotics; the contradictions of the gendered image as spectacle; new approaches to understanding the audience and the politics of media reception; and the potential of feminist and interpretive research strategies.
