A Short History of the Modern Media

A Short History of the Modern Media
Author: Jim Cullen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-09-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1118607767

A Short History of the Modern Media presents a concise history of the major media of the last 150 years, including print, stage, film, radio, television, sound recording, and the Internet. Offers a compact, teaching-friendly presentation of the history of mass media Features a discussion of works in popular culture that are well-known and easily available Presents a history of modern media that is strongly interdisciplinary in nature

The New Media Nation

The New Media Nation
Author: Valerie Alia
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857456067

Around the planet, Indigenous people are using old and new technologies to amplify their voices and broadcast information to a global audience. This is the first portrait of a powerful international movement that looks both inward and outward, helping to preserve ancient languages and cultures while communicating across cultural, political, and geographical boundaries. Based on more than twenty years of research, observation, and work experience in Indigenous journalism, film, music, and visual art, this volume includes specialized studies of Inuit in the circumpolar north, and First Nations peoples in the Yukon and southern Canada and the United States.

Modern Media Writing

Modern Media Writing
Author: Rick Wilber
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Feature writing
ISBN: 9780534520472

This new text provides all the basics of media writing for beginning journalism students, from grammar and basic research and writing techniques, to writing for print, broadcast, advertising and public relations. This practical, skills-based book not only instructs, but also provides ample information, professional and student examples, and exercises to better prepare students as they consider a career as a professional media writer.

Communicating Unreality

Communicating Unreality
Author: Gabriel Weimann
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 458
Release: 2000
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0761919864

This study reviews the images and meanings which play a vital role in our mass-mediated world. The author demonstrates that there is often a large gap between reality and the reconstruction of realities as communicated by the mass media.

Media Nation

Media Nation
Author: Bruce J. Schulman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-02-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812248880

Media Nation brings together some of the most exciting voices in media and political history to present fresh perspectives on the role of mass media in the evolution of modern American politics. Together, these contributors offer a field-shaping work that aims to bring the media back to the center of scholarship modern American history.

Applying Critical Thinking to Modern Media

Applying Critical Thinking to Modern Media
Author: Lewis Vaughn
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780190063450

"This is the only book that teaches critical thinking skills by applying them to the consumption of modern media. The active involvement with this vitally important area enhances student engagement and learning and prepares students to be independent and intelligent consumers of information that they encounter in their daily lives"--

The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships

The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships
Author: Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2017-04-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1498544495

The Impact of Social Media in Modern Romantic Relationships is the communication field’s most major, comprehensive volume of the study of social media and romantic relationship development. It is the first volume in the discipline of communication studies intended to provide an overview of romantic development that includes all types of social media, such as Tinder and Facebook. The volume contains several major communication and media scholars who have researched social media and romantic relationship development.

Media and Everyday Life in Modern Society

Media and Everyday Life in Modern Society
Author: Shaun Moores
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

What position have television, radio and other electronic media come to occupy in people's day-to-day lives and social relationships? Shaun Moores offers answers to this and other questions, drawing on a range of his investigations and reflections on media and everyday life in modern society.