Category: Media Studies

By Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

ISBN-10: 0203456513

ISBN-13: 9780203456514

ISBN-10: 0415198283

ISBN-13: 9780415198288

Amassing jointly a bunch of gifted writers, Museum, Media, Message considers, intensive, the main updated techniques to museum verbal exchange together with: museums as media; museums and viewers; and the review of museums. Addressing the necessity for museums to boost larger wisdom of customer event, this quantity introduces a vast variety of concerns, and offers the final word how, why and who of museum communique. Museum, Media, Message combines philosophical dialogue, sensible examples and case reviews and examines museum verbal exchange in 3 sections: studying how museums and galleries build and transmit complicated structures of price via techniques of assortment and exhibition elevating philosophical and administration concerns and exploration of labor with particular audiences introducing equipment for learning the audiences’ reviews of conversation occasions in museums. excellent for those who are looking to improve a extra serious and proficient expert museum perform, and for college students seeking to increase their talents of study and mirrored image, this e-book is of worth to an individual attracted to the present debates and problems with this new and growing to be box.

By Russell Cobb (eds.)

ISBN-10: 113735383X

ISBN-13: 9781137353832

ISBN-10: 1349469785

ISBN-13: 9781349469789

By Frances Robertson

ISBN-10: 0415574161

ISBN-13: 9780415574167

With the appearance of recent electronic conversation applied sciences, the tip of print tradition once more seems to be as inevitable to a few fresh commentators because it did to Marshall McLuhan. And simply as print tradition has so frequently been associated with the increase of contemporary commercial society, so the alleged loss of life of print lower than the onslaught of recent media is frequently additionally correlated with the loss of life of modernity.

This e-book charts the weather curious about such claims―print, tradition, expertise, history―through a mode that examines the iconography of fabrics, marks and strategies of print, and during this feel recognizes McLuhan’s concept of the medium because the bearer of which means. Even within the electronic age, many various sorts of print proceed to move and achieve which means from their fabric expression and their background. although, Frances Robertson argues that print tradition can in simple terms be understood as a constellation of various practices and for this reason discusses quite a number print cultures from 1800 the current ‘post-print’ culture.

The ebook should be of curiosity to undergraduate and postgraduate scholars in the parts of cultural heritage, paintings and layout historical past, booklet and print historical past, media reports, literary reviews, and the heritage of know-how.

By Wendy Hui Kyong Chun

ISBN-10: 0262033321

ISBN-13: 9780262033329

How has the net, a medium that prospers on keep an eye on, been authorized as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom more and more indistinguishable from paranoid keep watch over? up to speed and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the present political and technological coupling of freedom with keep an eye on via tracing the emergence of the web as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the net as overall freedom/total regulate, she says, stem from our aid of political difficulties into technological ones.Drawing at the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and interpreting such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition know-how, Chun argues that the connection among keep watch over and freedom in networked touch is skilled and negotiated via sexuality and race. She lines the need for our on-line world to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. reading "pornocracy," she contends that it was once via cyberporn and the government's makes an attempt to manage it that the net turned a industry of principles and commodities. Chun describes the way in which net promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, via shut examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost within the Shell, she analyzes the administration of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace.The Internet's power for democracy stems now not from illusory offers of person empowerment, Chun argues, yet really from the ways that it exposes us to others (and to different machines) in methods we can't regulate. utilizing fiber optic networks -- gentle coursing via glass tubes -- as metaphor and fact, regulate and Freedom engages the wealthy philosophical culture of sunshine as a determine for wisdom, explanation, surveillance, and self-discipline, for you to argue that fiber-optic networks bodily instantiate, and hence shatter, enlightenment.

By Justin B. Hollander, Erin Graves, Henry Renski, Cara Foster-Karim, Andrew Wiley, Dibyendu Das

ISBN-10: 113759490X

ISBN-13: 9781137594907

ISBN-10: 1137594918

ISBN-13: 9781137594914

This booklet analyses new software program instruments and social media info that may be used to discover the attitudes of individuals in city areas. It reviews at the findings of a number of learn initiatives that experience have experimented with utilizing microblogging info at the side of different quantitative and qualitative tools, together with content material research and complex multivariate statistics.
Applied researchers, planners and coverage makers have just recently began to discover the possibility of great info to aid comprehend social attitudes and to in all likelihood tell neighborhood coverage and improvement judgements. This e-book offers an unique research into how Twitter can be utilized to explain the city adventure and people's notion of position, in addition to delivering major implications for public coverage. it will likely be of serious curiosity to researchers in human geography, social media, cultural experiences and public policy.

By Gillian Williamson

ISBN-10: 1137542330

ISBN-13: 9781137542335

ISBN-10: 1349555126

ISBN-13: 9781349555123

The Gentleman's journal used to be the best eighteenth-century periodical. via integrating the magazine's historical past, readers and contents this research exhibits how 'gentlemanliness' was once reshaped to deal with their social and political pursuits.

By Melanie Selfe, Ealasaid Munro, Philip Schlesinger

ISBN-10: 1137478888

ISBN-13: 9781137478887

ISBN-10: 1349557811

ISBN-13: 9781349557813

This examine relies at the authors' fieldwork inside of Cultural firm place of work, a small Scottish organisation that helps inventive companies. It discusses united kingdom coverage at the inventive economic climate, the increase of intermediaries among policy-making and undefined, and the enjoying out within the supply of industrial recommendation companies to artistic microbusinesses.

By Aaron Tucker (auth.)

ISBN-10: 113738669X

ISBN-13: 9781137386694

ISBN-10: 1349481726

ISBN-13: 9781349481729

By J. Dan Rothwell

ISBN-10: 0495567671

ISBN-13: 9780495567677

IN combined corporation: speaking IN SMALL teams AND groups was once written for the small team verbal exchange direction provided at - and four-year faculties and universities. The small crew conversation direction often covers the underlying rules and abilities priceless for team participation and verbal exchange. subject matters coated contain conception, workforce improvement, weather, roles, management, dialogue, determination making, teamwork, clash administration, crew shows, and results overview. The aim of small staff verbal exchange is to coach scholars to turn into better workforce individuals and leaders through giving them research-based instruments and functional functions to take part effectively in groups. The path has a tendency to learn by way of an identical teachers each year or time period, and the ebook is frequently selected by way of that particular instead of via committee. The layout of the direction will not fluctuate greatly from college to varsity, so tables of contents within the small staff communique books are not notably diverse from each other. a few teachers are looking to use extra case experiences and experiential workouts for starting scholars or provide extra present learn conception for upper-division scholars of verbal exchange.

By Brett Christophers

ISBN-10: 0739123440

ISBN-13: 9780739123447

Envisioning Media energy develops an unique geographical viewpoint at the nature and workout of strength within the overseas tv financial system, targeting the united kingdom and New Zealand markets, and on their respective relationships with the U.S. industry and its globally-influential media firms. In illuminating the material of television's overseas house economic climate, the booklet argues that energy, wisdom and geography are inseparable not just from each other, yet from the method of accumulation of media capital.