The Meaning of Media
The Meaning of Media

Author: Anna Catharina Horn

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-05-10

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 3110695367

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The book highlights aspects of mediality and materiality in the dissemination and distribution of texts in the Scandinavian Middle Ages important for achieving a general understanding of the emerging literate culture. In nine chapters various types of texts represented in different media and in a range of materials are treated. The topics include two chapters on epigraphy, on lead amulets and stone monuments inscribed with runes and Roman letters. In four chapters aspects of the manuscript culture is discussed, the role of authorship and of the dissemination of Christian topics in translations. The appropriation of a Latin book culture in the vernaculars is treated as well as the adminstrative use of writing in charters. In the two final chapters topics related to the emerging print culture in early post-medieval manuscripts and prints are discussed with a focus on reception. The range of topics will make the book relevant for scholars from all fields of medieval research as well as those interested in mediality and materiality in general.

Meaning in the Age of Social Media
Meaning in the Age of Social Media

Author: G. Langlois

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-06-05

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1137356618

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The search for meaning is an essential human activity. It is not just about agreeing on some definitions about the world, objects, and people; it is an ethical process of opening up to find new possibilities. Langlois uses case studies of social media platforms (including Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon) to revisit traditional conceptions of meaning.

Media and Meaning: An Introduction
Media and Meaning: An Introduction

Author: Colin Stewart

Publisher: British Film Institute

Published: 2008-01-22

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780851708430

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Suitable for students and their teachers, this text can be used as an aid to class study and for independent student learning. With a strong emphasis on context and concepts, it offers an introduction to contemporary media.

Spreadable Media
Spreadable Media

Author: Henry Jenkins

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1479856053

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"Spreadable Media" maps fundamental changes taking place in the contemporary media environment, a space where corporations no longer tightly control media distribution. This book challenges some of the prevailing frameworks used to describe contemporary media.

Meaning in the Media
Meaning in the Media

Author: Alan Durant

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-03-04

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1139484451

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Meaning in the Media addresses the issue of how we should respond to competing claims about meaning put forward in confrontations between people or organisations in highly charged circumstances such as bitter public controversies and expensive legal disputes. Alan Durant draws attention to the pervasiveness and significance of such meaning-related disputes in the media, investigating how their 'meaning' dimension is best described and explained. Through his analysis of deception, distortion, bias, false advertising, offensiveness and other kinds of communicative behaviour that trigger interpretive disputes, Durant shows that we can understand both meaning and media better if we focus in new ways on moments in discourse when the apparently continuous flow of understanding and agreement breaks down. This lively and contemporary volume will be invaluable to students and teachers of linguistics, media studies, journalism and law.

Theatre, Social Media, and Meaning Making
Theatre, Social Media, and Meaning Making

Author: Bree Hadley

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-30

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 3319548824

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This book offers the first broad-based survey of the way artists, audiences and society at large are making use of social media, and how the emergence of social media platforms that allow two-way interaction between these groups has been held up as a ‘game changer’ by many in the theatre industry. The first book to analyse aesthetic, critical, audience development, marketing and assessment uptake of social media in the theatre industry in an integrated fashion, Theatre, Social Media and Meaning Making examines examples from the USA, UK, Europe and Australasia to provide a snapshot of this emerging niche within networked, telematic, immersive and participatory theatre production and reception practices. A vital new resource for the field, this book will appeal to scholars, students, and industry practitioners alike.

Television and the Meaning of 'Live'
Television and the Meaning of 'Live'

Author: Paddy Scannell

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-01-27

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 0745679641

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This book is about the question of existence, the meaning of ‘life’. It is an enquiry into the contemporary human situation as disclosed by television. The elementary components of any real-world situation are place, people and time. These are first examined as basic existential phenomena drawing on Heidegger’s fundamental enquiry into the human situation in Being and Time. They are then explored through the technological and production care-structures of broadcast television which, routinely and exceptionally, display the situated experience of being alive and living in the world today. It shows routinely in the live self-enactments of persons being themselves and the liveness of their ordinary talk on television. It shows exceptionally in television coverage of great occasions and catastrophes as they unfold live and in real time. Case studies reveal the existential role of television in salvaging the possibility of genuine experience, and in revealing the world-historical character of life today. To explore these questions, the agenda of sociology - its concern with economic, political and cultural life - is set aside. Being in the world is not, in the first (or last) instance, a social but an existential question, as an existential enquiry into television today discovers. Passionate and sweeping in scale, this new book from a leading media scholar is a major contribution to our understanding of the media today.

Dictionary of Media Literacy
Dictionary of Media Literacy

Author: Ellen Eliceiri

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 1997-06-30

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1567509363

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The ^IDictionary of Media Literacy^R is a reference work that contains key concepts, terms, organizations, issues, and individuals of note related to the field of media literacy. Media literacy is an international movement, with many countries developing media literacy programs. This work significantly contributes to the study and understanding of this new and evolving field. In that we all live in a world in which we are inundated by information conveyed through the channels of mass commmunication, this dictionary will be a resource for scholars, students, and individuals seeking to understand information delivered in this context.

Media, Minorities, and Meaning
Media, Minorities, and Meaning

Author: Debra L. Merskin

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9781433111402

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Foundations. Introduction -- Constructing categories of difference -- Minorities, meaning, and mass media -- Articulations of difference -- The articulation of difference. Country music and redneck woman -- The construction of Arabs as enemies -- Perpetuation of the hot Latina stereotype in Desperate housewives -- Commodified racism : brand images of Native Americans -- The pornographic gaze in mainstream American magazine and fashion advertising -- Women, lipstick, and self-presentation -- Sun also rises : Stereotypes of the Asian/American woman on Lost -- Coon songs : the Black male stereotype in popular American sheet music (1850-1920) -- Homosexuality and horror : the lesbian vampire film -- Television news coverage of "Day without an immigrant.

Brands
Brands

Author: Adam Arvidsson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-04-19

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1134277873

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Brands are now a dominant feature of everyday life. Drawing on rich empirical material, this book builds up a critical theory, arguing that brands have become an important tool for transforming everyday life into economic value.