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Author: D. Hook
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0230297617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive text on social psychological approaches to communication, providing an excellent introduction to theoretical perspectives, special topics, and applied areas and practice in communication. Bringing together scholars of international reputation, this book provides a unique contribution to the field.
Author: Endong, Floribert Patrick C.
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2019-06-28
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1522593144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch of what the world knows about the United States of America is constructed and spread through global media. One can hardly find a country where news events involving the U.S.A. do not attract media attention, controversy, or at least invoke some level of critical thought. Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media provides emerging research exploring how non-American media covers and represents the U.S.A. through a critical review that demonstrates how foreign media representations of the country have varied according to periods in history, political leadership, and current ideological and socio-cultural affinities. The publication also conversely examines Americans perceptions of foreign media representations of their country. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as neocolonialism, political science, and popular culture, this book is ideally designed for students, scholars, media specialists, policymakers, international relation experts, politicians, and other professionals seeking current research on different perspectives on non-American medias representation of the U.S.A. and Americans.
Author: Anastacia Kurylo
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2012-07-23
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1452289492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday, students are more familiar with other cultures than ever before because of the media, Internet, local diversity, and their own travels abroad. Using a social constructionist framework, Inter/Cultural Communication provides today's students with a rich understanding of how culture and communication affect and effect each other. Weaving multiple approaches together to provide a comprehensive understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of cultural and intercultural communication, this text helps students become more aware of their own identities and how powerful their identities can be in facilitating change—both in their own lives and in the lives of others.
Author: Stuart Hall
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1997-04-08
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 9780761954323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as `systems of representation'. Individual chapters explore: representation as a signifying practice in a rich diversity of social contexts and institutional sites; the use of photography in the construction of national identity and culture; other cultures in ethnographic museums; fantasies of the racialized `Other' in popular media, film and image; the construction of masculine identities in discourses of consumer culture and advertising; and the gendering of narratives in television soap operas.
Author: Shani Orgad
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-03-03
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 0745680852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration and celebration. The book explores how images, stories and voices, on television, the Internet, and in advertisements and newspapers, invite us to relocate to distant contexts, and to relate to people who are remote from our daily lives, by developing ‘mediated intimacy’ and focusing on the self. It also explores how these representations shape our self-narratives. Orgad examines five sites of media representation – the other, the nation, possible lives, the world and the self. She argues that representations can and should contribute to fostering more ambivalence and complexity in how we think and feel about the world, our place in it and our relation to far-away others. Media Representations and the Global Imagination will be of particular interest to students and scholars of media and cultural studies, as well as sociology, politics, international relations, development studies and migration studies.
Author: Gunther R. Kress
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0415320607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGunther Kress, a pioneer in the field of multimodality and the co-author of the bestselling Reading Images, produces a comprehensive theoretical framework for the study of the topic providing sample analyses and suggestions for further reading.
Author: Sally Johnson
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2007-09-19
Total Pages: 511
ISBN-13: 1441151257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like. The chapters examine issues of identity, gender, youth, citizenship, politics and ideology across a range of media, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the internet. The result is a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and by the media that will be essential reading for students and researchers of sociolinguistics or language and communication.
Author: Ya-Qin Zhang
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 1999-05-25
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9780824719289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses recent advances in the related technologies of multimedia computers, videophones, video-over-Internet, HDTV, digital satellite TV and interactive computer games. The text analyzes ways of achieving more effective navigation techniques, data management functions, and higher throughout networking. It synthesizes data on visual information venues, tracking the enormous commercial potential for new components and compatible systems.
Author: Briankle G. Chang
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780816626458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough a detailed examination of the basis of the idea of communication - with its semantic core of "commonality" or the transcendence of difference - Chang argues against the tendency of theorists to value understanding over misunderstanding, clarity over ambiguity, order over disorder. To this end the author revisits the thought of Derrida and considers deconstruction in general. Specifically, he uses the critique of the phenomenological tradition emerging from poststructuralism to clarify the commitments and assumptions inherent in models of communication. A seminal work, Deconstructing Communication will serve as the guiding framework for a constructive debate about the future direction of communication theory. Situated at the intersection of current debates regarding meaning and representation, Deconstructing Communication casts doubt on the seeming innocence of the activity of communication. Using poststructuralist literary theory and philosophy, Briankle G. Chang argues that modern theories fail to provide an adequate explanation for how communication is possible.
Author: Deirdre Kevin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-12
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1135704996
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bk is an attempt to address th subject of "Europe" as a concept whch has arisen in th wake of th formation of th European Union. Covers"Europeanization" by reference to th way this concept appears in th media all th participatg countries, & compares
