Media Effects Books

New and Published Books

1. The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates

   Edited by Bob Franklin

   Series: Journalism Studies

   The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates analyses the radical shifts in journalism which are changing every aspect of the gathering, reporting and reception of news. The drivers of these changes include the rapid innovations in communication technologies, the competitive and fragmenting...

   Published May 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. Media and Social Inequality

   Innovations in Community Structure Research

   Edited by John Pollock

   This book is among the first to systematically explore the impact of community inequality on reporting political and social change. Although most journalism scholars are still fascinated by the impact of media on society, Media and Social Inequality explores the reverse perspective: the impact of...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reinvention

   By Anthony Elliott

   Series: Shortcuts

   Ours is the era of ‘reinvention’. From psychotherapy to life coaching, from self-help manuals to cosmetic surgery, and from corporate rebranding to urban redesign: the art of reinvention is inextricably interwoven with the lure of the next frontier, the breakthrough to the next boundary –...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Media, Animal Conservation and Environmental Education

   Edited by John Blewitt

   Natural History filmmaking has a long history but the generic boundaries between it and environmental and conservation filmmaking are blurred. Nature, environment and animal imagery has been a mainstay of television, campaigning organisations and conservation bodies from Greenpeace to the Sierra...

   Published November 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. Panic

   By Keith Tester

   Series: Shortcuts

   Impending environmental catastrophe, threat of terrorism, viruses both biological and virtual, disease: there seem to be so many reasons to panic today. But what is panic and why does it happen? This book uses a range of literature from sociology, cultural studies and popular psychology to develop...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
6. Political Communication in China

   Convergence or Divergence Between the Media and Political System?

   Edited by Wenfang Tang, Shanto Iyengar

   It is widely recognised that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) uses the media to set the agenda for political discourse, propagate official policies, monitor public opinion, and rally regime support. State agencies in China control the full spectrum of media programming, either through ownership or...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Organizations and Popular Culture

   Information, Representation and Transformation

   Edited by Carl Rhodes, Simon Lilley

   Throughout its history, popular mass-mediated culture has turned its attention to representing and interrogating organizational life. As early as Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic classic Modern Times and as recently as the primetime television hit The Simpsons, we see cultural products that engage...

   Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge
8. Media Accountability

   Who Will Watch the Watchdog in the Twitter Age?

   Edited by William Babcock

   A small collection of well-honed tools has been employed for some time by media practitioners and the public to help maintain and improve the credibility of journalism and the mass media. These media accountability tools have included ethics codes, media critics, news councils, ombudsmen,...

   Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge
9. Psychophysiological Measurement and Meaning

   Cognitive and Emotional Processing of Media

   By Robert F. Potter, Paul Bolls

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   This research volume serves as a comprehensive resource for psychophysiological research on media responses. It addresses the theoretical underpinnings, methodological techniques, and most recent research in this area. It goes beyond current volumes by placing the research techniques within a...

   Published August 28th 2011 by Routledge
10. Entertainment Industries

    Entertainment as a Cultural System

    Edited by Alan McKee, Christy Collis, Ben Hamley

    Entertainment Industries is the first book to map entertainment as a cultural system. Including work from world-renowned analysts such as Henry Jenkins and Jonathan Gray, this innovative collection explains what entertainment is and how it works. Entertainment is audience-centred culture. The...

    Published July 11th 2011 by Routledge