The Practical Media Dictionary by Jeremy Orlebar
Book Description
This is an essential guide to understanding
how the media works and how people in the media talk to each other
about their industry. It makes the media accessible, untangling the
jargon and providing readers with the knowledge to participate in the
production of practical media products. Designed for those studying or
starting work in the media, it contains definitions that are clear,
uncomplicated, and easy to understand even without previous media
knowledge. Areas covered include specialist jargon found in a TV
studio, vocabulary of radio production, terms used in multimedia,
specialist language of film production, job and skills definitions, and
organizations associated with practical media production.(Amazon.Ca)
Comprehensive Glossary of Telecom Abbreviations and Acronyms
Featuring over 16,000 abbreviation entries, the Comprehensive Glossary of Telecom Abbreviations and Acronyms covers various fields including telecommunications, satellite communications, remote sensing, marine communications, radar and military communications, cellular networks, specialized mobile radio, avionics, electronics, radio and television broadcasting, information and communications technology, fiber optics communications and much more. This reference also includes abbreviations used in standardization organizations (such as ITU, ISO, IEEE, and ETSI) as well as abbreviations of new technologies. For each entry, all possible relevant phrases which stand for that entry are provided and the related branches of science are specified.
Ten years have elapsed since the first edition of this Dictionary. The vocabulary of economics in the broadest sense has considerably grown. Many neologisms have sprung from continued changes in national economies, not least the innovations in financial markets and growing concerns about the environment. Institutional changes, for example, the coming of the World Trade Organisation, and new interests in economic thought, not least through the further awards of Nobel Prizes for Economics, have inspired new entries. Inevitably some terms in the first edition have not been as durable as others and recommended reading needed revision. Extensive reading of economics journals and monographs, as well as newspapers, has produced over a thousand new entries. The organisation of the Dictionary has also been changed. The newer version of the subject classification employed by the Journal of Economic Literature and The Economic Journal has been applied to previous and new entries.
This up-to-date dictionary presents you with 2,100 entries including colorful words and phrases from television and movies, as well as the streets and campuses.
Words of Intelligence: A Dictionary by Jan Goldman As noted in the foreword, with the creation of Homeland Security, the
need for a standard vocabulary for the intelligence community became a
priority. This concise dictionary is an attempt to document the
operational and evolving intelligence vocabulary.
More than 600 entries range in length from one or two sentences to a paragraph, with the occasional page-long entry (derogatory information,
for example). Librarians and information professionals will find the
five pages of definitions for terms beginning with information as defined in the intelligence context to be of special interest. Starting with analysis and finishing with information warriors, the way the intelligence community perceives informationand
its use is unique. Mixed in with the entries for intelligence terms are
brief definitions of key events that were either missed, affected, or
successfully noted through the use of intelligence, including Iran, fall of the shah; Korean War;and Yom-Kippur War.
The dictionary concludes with 20 pages of notes along with an appendix
of what author Goldman considers essential Web sites of intelligence
agencies in the U.S. as well as selected international agencies. Before
the dictionary proper are 20 pages of acronyms used in the U.S.
government and military. (Amazon.com).
