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Crossover Cinema

2013-05-20T16:09:35Q

Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic forms that do not bear allegiance to a single nation in terms of conceptualization, content, finance and/or viewership, this volume contends that "crossover cinema" is the most apt contemporary description for those aspects of contemporary cinema on which it focuses. This contention is provoked by an appreciation of the cross-cultural reality of our post-globalization twenty-first century world.

Writing for the Web

2013-05-16T14:44:59Q

Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web Sites
Writing for the Web unites theory, technology, and practice to explore writing and hypertext for website creation. It integrates such key topics as XHTML/CSS coding, writing (prose) for the Web, the rhetorical needs of the audience, theories of hypertext, usability and architecture, and the basics of web site design and technology. Presenting information in digestible parts, this text enables students to write and construct realistic and manageable Web sites with a strong theoretical understanding of how online texts communicate to audiences.

Electronic Media Law and Regulation, 6th Edition

2013-05-16T14:39:02Q

Electronic Media Law and Regulation is a case-based law text that provides students with direct access to case law as well as the context in which to understand its meaning and impact. The text overviews the major legal and regulatory issues facing broadcasting, cable, and developing media in today's industry...

Latest Routledge Research Titles

2013-05-16T14:09:16Q

We have two new titles to highlight this month: A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media, part of the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies Series edited by Jesse Drew, and The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates, part of the Journalism Studies Series edited by Bob Franklin.

Digital Media and Reporting Conflict

2013-05-16T14:02:20Q

Digital Media and Reporting Conflict explores the impact of new forms of online reporting on the BBC’s coverage of war and terrorism. Informed by the views of over 100 BBC staff at all levels of the corporation, Bennett captures journalists’ shifting attitudes towards blogs and internet sources used to cover wars and other conflicts. He argues that the BBC’s practices and values are fundamentally evolving in response to the challenges of immediate digital publication.

The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media

2013-05-16T13:55:13Q

The roles that media play in the lives of children and adolescents, as well as their potential implications for their cognitive, emotional, social and behavioral development, have attracted growing research attention in a variety of disciplines. The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media analyses a broad range of complementary areas of study, including children as media consumers, children as active participants in media making, and representations of children in the media.

Promotional Culture and Convergence

2013-05-16T13:48:52Q

The rapid growth of promotional material through the internet, social media, and entertainment culture has created consumers who are seeking out their own information to guide their purchasing decisions. Promotional Culture and Convergence analyses the environments necessary for creating a culture of collaboration with consumers, and critically engages with key areas of contemporary promotional development.

Audioboo Interview on Alternative Journalism with Tony Harcup

2013-05-07T12:47:25Q

This fascinating interview with author Tony Harcup provides a snapshot of the history of alternative journalism, through discussing his book Alternative Journalism, Alternative Voices. Intrictately linked in with the politics of the 1970's and 1980's, it provided a voice for the everyday, 'ordinary people' which could often be lost between the Unions and the politicians.

Listen to the Audioboo interview here.

Click here for more information on the book.

Book of the Month - Strategic Planning for Public Relations

2013-04-30T09:31:57Q

4th Edition

By Ronald D. Smith

Named as one of Routledge's Books of the Month, as an example of an innovative revision of a popular text.

My New Gender Workbook - Best Summer Books 2013

2013-04-30T09:10:59Q

A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity, 2nd Edition

By Kate Bornstein

My New Gender Workbook has been named by Publishers Weekly as one of the ‘Best Summer Books 2013’.

Read the review...

Journalism Studies Series - Online Reporting of Elections

2013-04-23T08:47:20Q

The latest title in our Journalism Studies series, edited by Bob Franklin, contributes to debates concerning online reporting of elections and the challenges facing journalism in the context of democratic change. It covers comparative, research-based studies across a range of national contexts and electoral systems, including Australia, ten African countries, the European Union, Greece, the Netherlands, India, Iran, Sweden, the UK and the USA.

Journalism Studies Series - New Titles

2013-04-18T08:34:56Q

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.

Journalism of Ideas

2013-04-15T10:41:51Q

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.

Confronting The Digital Elephant in the Room

2013-04-10T09:02:54Q

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.

International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design

2013-04-09T09:48:29Q

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.