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  • Youth and Media

    by Andy Ruddock ...
    When societies worry about media effects, why do they focus so much on young people? Is advertising to blame for binge drinking? Do films and video games inspire school shootings? Tackling these kinds of questions, Youth and Media explains why young people are at the centre of how we understand the media.Exploring key issues in politics, technology, celebrity, advertising, gender and globalization ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • History, Politics and the Evolution of Cultivation Theory

    Beyond Violence?

    by Andy Ruddock ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a cultural history of cultivation theory, a North American mass communication paradigm best known for arguing that television violence was a potent agent of political socialisation. Decades after its inception, cultivation theory remains an evocative force in imagining twenty-first-century media power. This book reveals how many factors shaped the theory: the spectre of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Exploring Media Research

    Theories, Practice, and Purpose

    by Andy Ruddock ...
    From Donald Trump’s use of Twitter, to social media mourning, to cyber-bullying: the evidence of media influence today is all around us. As such, good media research is more important than ever, and crucially, is something all students can and should do.Exploring Media Researchis an eye-opening exploration of what it means to understand and do media research today.Carefully balancing theory and ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Digital Media Influence

    A Cultivation Approach

    by Andy Ruddock ...
    Series series SAGE Swifts
    Populism, misogyny, rampage murders. Digital media seem to lie at the heart of sinister, intractable social challenges. Curiously, the very societies who fear such things are often dismissive of media research. Addressing key issues affecting global media industries, this book explains how to solve the present conundrum by appreciating the historical development of cultivation theory.Digital Media ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Understanding Audiences

    Theory and Method

    by Andy Ruddock ...
    The history of audience research tells us that the relationship between the media and viewers, readers and listeners is complex and requires multiple methods of analysis. In Understanding Audiences, Andy Ruddock introduces students to the range of quantitative and qualitative methods and invites his readers to consider the merits of both.Understanding Audiences: demonstrates how - practically - to ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

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  • Politics, Society, and the Media, Second Edition

    by Paul Nesbitt-Larking ...
    Politics, Society, and the Media is the first comprehensive political sociology of the media to be published in Canada. Paul Nesbitt-Larking draws upon a range of disciplines, including cultural and media studies, political economy, social theory, and political science to provide an analysis of the relationship between power and representation in Canada.The framework for the book presents a model ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Media, Politics and Democracy

    by John Street ...
    The third edition of Media, Politics and Democracy examines the fraught debate over media influence, who wields it and what effect social and traditional media has on what we think, how we behave, and how we vote. Charting the media conglomerates of old, the alarming rise of the Tech Giants in recent decades, concerns over 'fake news', and the use of social media by political candidates, this book ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Persona Non Grata

    The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age

    by Tom Flanagan ...
    From an acclaimed professor and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a passionate and edgy defense of free speech in Canada, and the role the internet plays in the issue.In February 2013, Tom Flanagan, acclaimed academic, University of Calgary professor, and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, made comments surrounding the issue of viewing child pornography that were ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The End of Race Politics

    Arguments for a Colorblind America

    by Coleman Hughes ...
    An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called ‘anti-racist’ movement is driving us—ironically—toward a new kind of racism.As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Diversify

    An award-winning guide to why inclusion is better for everyone

    by June Sarpong ...
    ‘A handbook for these troubled times’ Psychologies Magazine’Engaging and informative … highlights our common humanity’ Kofi Annan‘A passionately written polemic’ You MagazineThe truth is, INCLUSION is better for EVERYONE.In this empowering call to arms, June Sarpong MBE proves why.Putting the spotlight on groups who are often marginalised in our society, incl... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Understanding Media

    Communication, Power and Social Change

    by James Curran, Joanna Redden ...
    Series series Pelican Books
    An authoritative and accessible guide to the world’s most influential force – the contemporary mediaOur lives are more mediated than ever before. Adults in economically advanced countries spend, on average, over eight hours per day interacting with the media. The news and entertainment industries are being transformed by the shift to digital platforms. But how much is really changing in terms of ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Post-Truth

    The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back

    by Matthew d'Ancona ...
    Welcome to the Post-Truth era— a time in which the art of the lie is shaking the very foundations of democracy and the world as we know it. The Brexit vote; Donald Trump’s victory; the rejection of climate change science; the vilification of immigrants; all have been based on the power to evoke feelings and not facts. So what does it all mean and how can we champion truth in in a time of lies and ... Read more

    $22.09 USD