Rethinking Media Change

Rethinking Media Change

Author: David Thorburn

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2004-09-17

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780262264945

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The essays in Rethinking Media Change center on a variety of media forms at moments of disruption and cultural transformation. The editors' introduction sketches an aesthetics of media transition—patterns of development and social dispersion that operate across eras, media forms, and cultures. The book includes case studies of such earlier media as the book, the phonograph, early cinema, and television. It also examines contemporary digital forms, exploring their promise and strangeness. A final section probes aspects of visual culture in such environments as the evolving museum, movie spectaculars, and "the virtual window." The contributors reject apocalyptic scenarios of media revolution, demonstrating instead that media transition is always a mix of tradition and innovation, an accretive process in which emerging and established systems interact, shift, and collude with one another.


Rethinking Media Studies

Rethinking Media Studies

Author: Ananta Kumar Giri

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-05-13

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1040021557

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This book reconsiders media studies from different philosophical and theoretical perspectives from around the world. It brings together diverse views and visions from thinkers such as Sr Aubrobindo, Jurgen Habermas, Paul Ricoeur, Pope Francis, and Satyajit Ray, among others. The authors focus on the issues of ethics, aesthetics, meditation, and communication in relation to media studies and explore the links between media and mindfulness. The volume includes case studies from India, United States, Switzerland, and Denmark and presents empirical works on new horizons of critical media studies in different fields such as American news media and creative media lab. A unique contribution, this book will be indispensable for students and researchers of journalism, communication studies, social media, behavioural sciences, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, and development studies.


Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture

Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture

Author: Stewart M. Hoover

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1997-01-31

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780761901716

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This book links the growing connections between media, culture and religion into a coherent theoretical whole. It examines, amongst others, the effect on cultural practices and the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion.


Rethinking Media Studies and the Digital Revolution

Rethinking Media Studies and the Digital Revolution

Author: Liam French

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2023-12-19

Total Pages: 119

ISBN-13: 152756388X

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This book offers an important reconsideration of teaching, learning and research in media studies, and provides an overview of some of the key issues, controversies and debates in the field. It argues that, in spite of critical interventions from scholars working both within and outside of media studies, many academics have been slow to respond to the ongoing shifts and transformations in digital media in terms of curriculum design and course content. The book critically engages with and reassesses issues and debates in teaching and learning in the field of media studies in light of wide-scale shifts incurred by digital media, and asks “is media studies still relevant as a subject in its current form?” This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of media studies, media education, cultural studies and popular culture.


Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Author: Elizabeth Marshall

Publisher: Rethinking Schools

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 094296148X

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A provocative collection of articles that begins with the idea that the "popular" in classrooms and in the everyday lives of teachers and students is fundamentally political. This anthology includes articles by elementary and secondary public school teachers, scholars and activists who examine how and what popular toys, books, films, music and other media "teach." The essays offer strong critiques and practical pedagogical strategies for educators at every level to engage with the popular.


Rethinking Journalism

Rethinking Journalism

Author: Chris Peters

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0415697018

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There is no doubt, journalism faces challenging times. This book argues that we have to rethink journalism fundamentally. Rather than just focus on the symptoms of the 'crisis of journalism', this collection tries to understand the structural transformation journalism is undergoing.


Rethinking Media Pluralism

Rethinking Media Pluralism

Author: Kari Karppinen

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0823245128

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Contends that the notions of media pluralism and diversity have been reduced to empty catchphrases or conflated with consumer choice and market competition.


Rethinking Third Cinema

Rethinking Third Cinema

Author: Wimal Dissanayake

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-06-02

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1134613237

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This important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations. The 'Third Cinema' movement called for a politicised film-making practice in Africa, Asia and Latin America, one which would take on board issues of race, class, religion, and national integrity. The films which resulted from the movement, from directors such as Ousmane Sembene, Satyajit Ray and Nelson Pereira dos Santos, are among the most culturally signficant, politically sophisticated and frequently studied films of the 1960s and 1970s. However, despite the contemporary popularity and critical attention enjoyed by films from Asia and Latin America in particular, Third Cinema and Third Cinema theory appears to have lost its momentum. Rethinking Third Cinema seeks to bring Third Cinema and Third Cinema theory back into the critical spotlight. The contributors address the most difficult and challenging questions Third Cinema poses, suggesting new methodologies and redirections of existing ones. Crucially, they also re-examine the entire phenomenon of film-making in a fast-vanishing 'Third World', with case studies of the cinemas of India, Iran and Hong Kong, among others.


Rethinking the Media Audience

Rethinking the Media Audience

Author: Pertti Alasuutari

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1999-08-31

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1849206732

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Pertti Alasuutari provides a state-of-the-art summary of the field of audience research. With contributions from Ann Gray, Joke Hermes, John Tulloch and David Morley, a case is presented for a new agenda to account for the role of the media in everyday life.