This Handbook encapsulates the intellectual history of mass media ethics over the past twenty-five years. Chapters will serve as a summary of existing research and thinking in the field, as well as setting agenda items for future research. Key features include: up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of media ethics, one of the hottest topics in the media community 'one-stop shopping' for historical and current research in media ethics experienced, top-tier editors, advisory board, and contributors.
In this 'New Media Age' the screen has replaced the book as the
dominant medium of communication. This dramatic change has made image,
rather than writing, the center of communication. In this
groundbreaking new book, Gunther Kress considers the effects of a
revolution that has radically altered the relation between writing and
the book. Taking into account social, economic, communicational and
technological factors, Kress explores how these changes will affect the
future of literacy.
This collection explores the sexual content of U.S. mass media and its influence in the lives of adolescents. Contributors address the topic of sexuality broadly, including evidence not only about physical sex acts, but also about the role the media play in the development of gender roles, standards of beauty, courtship, and relationship norms.
The goal of this volume is to examine the phenomenon of media communication from a cross-cultural perspective. The focus in the contributions is on the analysis of political discourse in the media which, in mediatized mass democracies, is for most people the only way in which they ever encounter politics. The cross-cultural perspective adopted in this collection of papers involves two basic approaches: on the one hand, culture-specific discourse practices of journalists and politicians are described and compared.
This book provides an indispensable basic introduction to textual analysis. McKee starts from the most basic philosophical foundations that underlie the practice and explains why texts are important and what they tell us about the world they represent. Textual Analysis guides students away from finding the `correct' interpretation of a text and explains why we can't simply ask audiences about the interpretations they make of texts.
Textual Analysis:
- points to the importance of context, genre and modality
- uses excellent examples drawn from popular culture
- provides students with a solid grounding on many of the important concepts underlying media and cultural studies
Written in an accessible and straightforward style Textual Analysis: A Beginners Guide will be essential reading for all students of media, cultural and communication studies.
