Media Studies & Journalism News & Updates – Page 2

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    Journalism Studies Series - New Titles

    The Journalism Studies book series draws on a wide range of themed issues from the Journalism Studies and Journalism Practice journals and thereby extends the critical and public forum provided by them. The Editor of the journals, Bob Franklin, works closely with guest editors to ensure that the books achieve relevance for readers and the highest standards of research rigour and academic excellence.

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    Journalism of Ideas

    Brainstorming, Developing, and Selling Stories in the Digital Age
    By Daniel Reimold
    
    Journalism of Ideas is a comprehensive field guide for brainstorming, discovering, reporting, digitizing, and pitching news, opinion, and feature stories within journalism 2.0.

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    Confronting The Digital Elephant in the Room

    Consumer research is only just beginning to emerge on how digital consumption affects basic human and consumer behaviours.
    
    "In a few short decades digital consumption has colonized more and more of our lives from entertainment to communication to shopping to learning about the world," say Russell Belk and Rosa Llamas, editors of The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption,  "issues of what digital consumption do to our notions of self, trust, friendship, and consumer activism have been less appreciated until recently, even though they likely have a more profound on our well being."

    Read more about the topics explored in The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption in this fascinating interview with the editors.
     

14. International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design

    This year the International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design will be held from 1-3 May in Famagusta, Cyprus. The scope of the conference includes Communication Technologies, Social Media, Visual Communication and Design, Integrated Marketing Communication, Communication Education, Communication Barriers, Media Management and Economics, Political Communication.

    Routledge are offering all delegates a 20% discount on our communication and media books.

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    Have you seen our online Publishing catalog?

    Our new catalog dedicated to our publishing titles is now available online.
    
    The catalog showcases favourites such as Inside Book Publishing, Publishing Law and Selling Rights, plus recently published and upcoming titles such as Book Production, An Introduction to Book History, The Book Publishing Industry and Inside Journals Publishing.

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    And the Award Goes to: Critical Approaches to Comics

    Congratulations to Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods edited by Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan. WINNER of the 2013 Peter C. Rollins Book Award in Sequential Art/Comics and Animation Studies, sponsored by the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association.

    Read more about this award winning book here.

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    Global Entertainment Media

    Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization
    By Tanner Mirrlees
    
    A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media.

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    Have you missed our latest Research titles?

    Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    Cultural and media studies are now well-established as important academic disciplines and are inspiring new research into a wide range of pertinent issues. This series presents outstanding research in international communication, cultural, and media studies.
     

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    The Olympics, Media and Society

    Edited by Kim Bissell, Stephen Perry

    When the general public follow the Olympic Games on television, on the internet, even in the newspapers, they feel like they have themselves experienced the performances of the athletes. This book explores whether it is ever possible to experience the Olympic Games as an athletic event without considering the effect of the media.

20. 

    Enter The Prop Building Guidebook Contest

    Theatre and movie frequently require replicas of three-dimensional objects built for actors to use.

    We are hosting a contest to celebrate the skill of prop builders everywhere and the release of Eric Hart's new book, The Prop Building Guidebook: For Theatre, Film, and TV!
    
    Enter the contest to win a prize worth $500!