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  • The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media

    A Global Perspective

    by Mike Gasher, John Pollock, Toks Oyedemi, Stephanie Agrestie, Roberta Bracciale, Francisco Sierra Caballero, Martin Caraher, James Gibbons, Tommaso Gravante, Steven Harkins0, Gyuri Kepes1, Archna Kumar2, Lauren Longo3, Isabella Mingo4, Aparna Moitra5, Greg M. Nielsen6, Louise North7, Lucy Obozintsev8, Fay Patel9, Alice Poma0, Hannah Salamone1, Amanda Weightman2, Rebecca Wells3, Jairo Lugo-Ocando4, Kaan Tasbasi5, Jan Servaes6 ...
    Series series Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
    The Praxis of Social Inequality in Media: A Global Perspective provides a global analysis of the intersection of social inequalities, media, and communication. This volume contains chapters by an international array of scholars and provides case studies from various countries with critical empirical analysis of social inequalities and how they shape media narratives and experiences. The topics ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Journalism in Crisis

    Bridging Theory and Practice for Democratic Media Strategies in Canada

    Edited by Colette Brin, Christine Crowther, Gretchen KIng, Errol Salamon, Simon Thibault, Mike Gasher ...
    Journalism in Crisis addresses the concerns of scholars, activists, and journalists committed to Canadian journalism as a democratic institution and as a set of democratic practices. The authors look within Canada and abroad for solutions for balancing the Canadian media ecology.Public policies have been central to the creation and shaping of Canada’s media system and, rather than wait for new ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Bring 'Em On

    Media and Politics in the Iraq War

    by Douglas Kellner, Heinz Brandenburg, Lisa Brooten, Elisia L. Cohen, Timothy M. Cole, Prof. Christian Fuchs, Mike Gasher, William B. Hart0, Fran Hassencahl1, Adel Iskandar2, Liz Jacka3, Andrew Jakubowicz4, Sue Curry Jansen5, Robert Jensen6, Matthew A. Killmeier7, Debra Merskin8, Tanja Thomas9, Fabian Virchow0 ...
    Series series Communication, Media, and Politics
    How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the first preventive war of the modern age? Bring 'Em On highlights the complex links between media and politics, analyzing how communication practices are modified in times of crisis to protect political interests or implement political goals. ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Contracting Out Hollywood

    Runaway Productions and Foreign Location Shooting

    by Greg Elmer, Marcus Breen, Susan Christopherson, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Ben Goldsmith, Nitan Govil, Sara Matheson, Tom O'Regan, Barbara Selznick0 ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    In Hollywood's search for cheap, distinctive, and authentic locations, producers and directors are taking their business to foreign soil. Only one of the five 2002 Best Picture nominees was shot in the United States_The Hours, filmed in Hollywood, Florida. Contracting Out Hollywood addresses the American trend of 'runaway productions'_the growing practice of producing American films and television ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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    A Citizen Perspective

    by Thomas Tufte ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change?In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • News Writing and Reporting

    An Introduction to Skills and Theory

    by Bruce Gillespie ...
    News Writing and Reporting: An Introduction to Skills and Theory is a concise, friendly guide to mastering the fundamentals of journalism practice in Canada. Award-winning Canadian writer and editor Bruce Gillespie demonstrates essential skills - such as conducting interviews, evaluating newsworthiness, developing story ideas, and recognizing legal and ethical issues - which are followed by a ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Global Security Cultures

    by Mary Kaldor ...
    Why do politicians think that war is the answer to terror when military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Mali, Somalia and elsewhere has made things worse? Why do some conflicts never end? And how is it that practices like beheadings, extra-judicial killings, the bombing of hospitals and schools and sexual slavery are becoming increasingly common?In this book, renowned scholar ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Global Citizenship Education: A Critical Introduction to Key Concepts and Debates

    by Edda Sant, Lynette Shultz, Dr Ian Davies, Dr Karen Pashby ...
    Global Citizenship Education explores key ideas and issues within local, national and global dimensions. Including examples and case studies from across the world, the authors draw on ideas, experiences and histories within and beyond 'the West' to contribute to multifaceted perspectives on global citizenship education.In concise chapters, the authors set out the key concepts and debates within ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Faces of Terrorism

    Social and Psychological Dimensions

    by Neil J. Smelser ...
    Series series Science Essentials
    Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorly understood by policymakers, the media, and the general public. The Faces of Terrorism is the first serious interdisciplinary examination of terrorism in all its facets. What gives rise to it, who are its proponents and how do they think, and how--and why--does it work?Neil Smelser begins by tackling ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Mediated Society

    by John D. Jackson, Greg M. Nielsen, Yon Hsu ...
    Taking a sociological approach to the study of mass media, Mediated Society explores how the media affects individuals and society. Within this unique framework, the authors analyze media and mass communication as a social rather than as a technological construct while addressing issues such as democracy, citizenship, class, gender, and cultural diversity. Drawing attention to the way in which ... Read more

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  • Mediation and Protest Movements

    Edited by Bart Cammaerts, Alice Mattoni, Patrick McCurdy ...
    Over the past year, international and national media have been full of stories about protest movements and tumultuous social upheaval from Tunisia to California. But scholars have not yet fully addressed the connection between these movements and the media and communication channels through which their messages spread. Correcting that imbalance, Mediation and Protest Movements explores the nature ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD