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1) From NWICO to WSIS: 30 Years of Communication Geopolitics: Actors and Flows, Structures and Divides
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Two major regulatory activities have framed global media policies since World War II: the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO) and the more recent World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Through extensive research and testimonies from those involved, this book presents an in-depth account from the 1970s to today of the major issues concerning information flow in international geopolitics, including a look at the negotiations...
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Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic clichés and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical impact of these traumatic events& mdash;and what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo's Falling Man, Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers, Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely...
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With contributions from leading international experts from within both the communications industry and academia, Trends in Communication Policy Research comprises the very latest developments in the theories, methods and practical applications of this dynamic field. Topical and politically relevant, this authoritative volume will prove an invaluable reference for students and scholars seeking to understand communication policy issues.
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Using a sample of European newspapers and their TV listings as a stepping stone, Media, Markets and Public Spheres presents an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. With in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting, changing relations between media, and changes in media policies, this book explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society. Media, Markets and Public...
5) James Bond
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The mere hint recently that British actor Idris Elba might take up the mantle of James Bond in future instalments of the film franchise was a major international news story—a testament to the enduring interest and appeal of Bond, a figure who has become a true global icon.
“Fan Phenomena: James Bond” explores the devoted fanbase that has helped make Bond what he is, offering a serious but wholly accessible take on the many different ways that...
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Los autores de este libro creen que la superstición llamada realidad, construida por hechos noticiosos como las guerras, las catástrofes o las peroratas de los políticos, no estará completa sin la opinión de los personajes que nos llevan a otros mundos a través de sus visiones.
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Más allá de la pantalla: Música, sonido, imagen es un volumen colectivo que estudia la música como cultura audiovisual en nuestros días. Dividido en cuatro grandes bloques (Nuestro cine, Lenguajes cinematográficos y musicales, Otras pantallas, otras audiencias, Educación músico-audiovisual), en este libro los autores estudian fenómenos que van desde la cinematografía de Pedro Almodóvar hasta los films de Pixar, pasando por fenómenos como...
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Parenting/Internet/Kids, with three key terms slashed together, conveys the idea that the practice of parenting may extend both to the Internet and to our children-to the extent that both require attention, care, and forms of regulation, and, in turn, provide support and enjoyment. While the triadic title is somewhat playful, it also strikes a serious note and introduces layered possibilities: we are not simply raising children who have grown up in...
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From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans broadens the base of research on Indigenous media in Latin America through thirteen chapters that explore groups such as the Kayapó of Brazil, the Mapuche of Chile, the Kichwa of Ecuador, and the Ayuuk of Mexico, among others, as they engage video, DVDs, photography, television, radio, and the internet.
The authors cover a range of topics such as the prospects of collaborative film production, the complications...
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This timely book examines the power and role of the image in modern Middle Eastern societies. The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images "speak" and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East addresses aspects of the visual in the Islamic world, including...
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Media, Crime and Racism draws together contributions from scholars at the leading edge of their field across three continents to present contemporary and longstanding debates exploring the roles played by media and the state in racialising crime and criminalising racialised minorities. Comprised of empirically rich accounts and theoretically informed analysis, this dynamic text offers readers a critical and in-depth examination of contemporary social...
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First comprehensive account of how the Internet has impacted life in Iran.
Social Media in Iran is the first book to tell the complex story of how and why the Iranian people-including women, homosexuals, dissidents, artists, and even state actors-use social media technology, and in doing so create a contentious environment wherein new identities and realities are constructed. Drawing together emerging and established scholars in communication, culture,...
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Increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the context of media culture, in the realm of the so-called secular. Focusing on this intersection of the sacred and the secular, this volume gathers together the work of media experts, religious historians, sociologists of religion, and authorities on American studies and art history. Topics range from Islam on the Internet...
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This anthology examines how activists have used media technology to effect social and political change from the 1940s to today.
In the 1940s, it was 16 mm film. In the 1980s, it was handheld video cameras. Today, it is cell phones and social media. Activists have always found ways to use the media du jour for quick and widespread distribution. InsUrgent Media from the Front looks at activist media practices in the twenty-first century and sheds light...
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TFP brings together international researchers, students and industry professionals dedicated to promoting new research directions and to investigating the relationship between functional programming and other branches of Computer Science. This TFP volume includes some of the latest trends of functional programming, and it is an essential part of any modern programming languages library.
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La serie Battlestar Galactica (2003-2009), reimaginada a partir de la original de los años setenta, constituye un hito en la industria del entretenimiento no sólo por su factura audiovisual y narrativa, sino también porque desarrolla tramas complejas profundamente imbricadas en la sociedad de nuestro tiempo. La democracia y las tensiones entre los poderes, la equidad, los avances científicos y tecnológicos, la identidad, el terrorismo y la espiritualidad,...
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This is the first title in a new series of volumes examining different dimensions of the media and culture in small nations. Whether at a local, national or international level, radio has played and continues to play a key role in nurturing or denying—even destroying—people's sense of 'belonging' to a particular community, whether it be defined in terms of place, ethnicity, language or patterns of consumption. Typically, the radio has been used...
20) Communications Research in Action: Scholar-Activist Collaborations for a Democratic Public Sphere
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A synergy between academia and activism has long been a goal of both scholars and advocacy organizations in communications research. The essays in Communications Research in Action demonstrate, for the first time in one volume, how an effective partnership between the two can contribute to a more democratic public sphere by helping to break down the digital divide to allow greater access to critical technologies, democratizing the corporate ownership...
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