Entertaining the Citizen

Liesbet Van Zoonen

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Can politics be combined with entertainment? Can political involvement and participation be fun? Politics and popular culture are converging all the t... Lees meer

Tabloid Tales

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• The increasing interest in private lives and the falling off of coverage of serious news is often described as 'tabloidization.' The essays in this bo... Lees meer

Recovering a Public Vision for Public Television

Glenda R Balas

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• In 1995 public television faced possible elimination of federal funding, potentially commercializing this unique type of broadcasting. Recovering a Pu... Lees meer

Herbert Schiller

Richard Maxwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Hailed as America's most original and influential media analyst of the left, Herbert I. Schiller (1919-2000) was a pioneer of critical communication s... Lees meer

Internet Governance in Transition

Daniel J Paré

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Who controls the Internet and on what basis does that authority rest? While this network of information seems to be the world's property, a multitude ... Lees meer

From the Labyrinth of the World to the Paradise of the Heart

Vincenzo Pavone

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Science and Humanism in UNESCO's Approach to Globalization studies the influence of scientific humanism on the emergence and development of UNESCO's o... Lees meer

Deregulating Telecommunications

Kevin G Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Deregulating Telecommunications critically examines the transition from monopoly to competition in the U.S. and Canadian telecommunications industries... Lees meer

Contracting Out Hollywood

• Hardcover | Engels | 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 ... Lees meer

Principles of Publicity and Press Freedom

Slavko Splichal

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• This insightful book examines freedom of the press, the social functions of the press, and how the original concept of publicity--as the 'public use o... Lees meer

Toward a Political Economy of Culture

• Hardcover | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• This work explores a mix of topics and issues that link to the heritage of political economy work, policy studies, and research and theory about the p... Lees meer

Netporn

Katrien Jacobs

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Netporn delves into the aesthetics and politics of sexuality in the era of do-it-yourself (DIY) Internet pornography. Katrien Jacobs, drawing on digit... Lees meer

Culture Conglomerates

William M Kunz

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• This succinct overview explains conglomeration and regulation in the film and television industries, covering its history as well as the contemporary ... Lees meer

Culture Conglomerates

William M Kunz

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• This succinct overview explains conglomeration and regulation in the film and television industries, covering its history as well as the contemporary ... Lees meer

Contesting Media Power

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Contesting Media Power is the most ambitious international collection to date on the worldwide growth of alternative media that are challenging the po... Lees meer

Interactions

Hanno Hardt

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Enriched by critical theory and the insights of cultural studies, and rooted in the power of historical explanation, this collection of classic and ne... Lees meer

Internet Governance in Transition

Daniel J Paré

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Who controls the Internet and on what basis does that authority rest? While this network of information seems to be the world's property, a multitude ... Lees meer

Community Media

Ellie Rennie

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• This concise text will help readers understand the ongoing fascination with do-it-yourself media around the world. Ellie Rennie explains how community... Lees meer

A Fatal Attraction

Cinzia Padovani

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Cinzia Padovani takes an in-depth look at Italian public service broadcasting, covering its history, its role in Italian society, its relationship to ... Lees meer

Principles of Publicity and Press Freedom

Slavko Splichal

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• This insightful book examines freedom of the press, the social functions of the press, and how the original concept of publicity--as the 'public use o... Lees meer

Critical Communication Theory

Sue Curry Jansen

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Critical theorist, feminist, and censorship expert Sue Curry Jansen brings a fresh perspective to contemporary communication inquiry. Jansen engages t... Lees meer

Global Communications

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• This provocative book takes a new approach toward understanding the uneven flows of global communications, focusing on areas of the state, the market,... Lees meer

Feminist Interventions in International Communication

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• This cutting-edge work critiques today's global mediascape through feminist perspectives, highlighting concerns of policy, power, labor, and technolog... Lees meer

Global Media Governance

Seán Ó Siochrú, Bruce Girard, Amy Mahan

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• This book is a primer on media governance at a global level and the key influencing forces and organizations, such as ITU, WTO, UNESCO, WIPO, and ICAN... Lees meer

Communication, Citizenship, and Social Policy

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• What roles can and should governments play in communication policymaking? How are communication policies related to welfare politics? With the rapid g... Lees meer