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Media, Telecommunications, and Business Strategy

2013-05-17T13:14:44Q

With today’s dynamic and rapidly evolving environment, media managers must have a clear understanding of different delivery platforms, as well as a grasp of critical management, planning, and economic factors in order to stay current and move their organizations forward.

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

2013-05-16T14:39:57Q

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. Presenting information from major cases, rules, regulations, and legal documents in a concise and readable form, this book helps current and prospective media professsionals understand the complex realm of law and regulation. Students will learn how to avoid common legal pitfalls and anticipate situations that may have potential legal consequences.

Theatre of the Oppressed in Actions

2013-05-16T14:26:44Q

An Audio-Visual Introduction to Boal’s Forum Theatre
Brazilian theatre director Augusto Boal’s ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ movement went global many years ago – it is now practiced all over the world by a wide range of different groups from political activists and practitioners of political (or ‘applied’) theatre to students at all levels. This major new DVD contains carefully curated footage from his many documented workshops, masterclasses and lectures.
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Learning Through Theatre, 3rd Edition

2013-05-16T14:18:17Q

In the two decades since the publication of the second edition of Learning Through Theatre, it has further established itself as an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners and educators interested in the complex interrelations between teaching and learning, the performing arts, and society at large. Theatre in Education (TIE) has consistently been at the cutting edge of the ever-growing field of Applied Theatre; this comprehensively revised new edition makes an international case for why, and how, it will continue to define how the participatory arts contribute to the learning of young people (and increasingly, adults) in the 21st century.

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.

Manga’s Cultural Crossroads

2013-05-16T13:41:51Q

'This is a timely collection that explores a burgeoning area of enquiry in an interesting and original manner. The chapters address a range of relevant topics for anyone interested in the study and history of manga, as well as addressing the adaptation of manga in different media.' - Matthew Green, Associate Professor, University of Nottingham

Communication Yearbook 37

2013-05-16T13:31:15Q

Next month we will be attending the ICA conference in London. In advance of this event we are pleased to announce the publication of Communication Yearbook 37 in association with the International Communication Association. This yearbook continues the tradition of publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays. Editor Elisia Cohen presents a volume that is highly international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the International Communication Association.

The Global Journalist in the 21st Century

2013-05-16T13:24:51Q

The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global Journalist (1998) volume with new data, adding more than a dozen countries, and provides material on comparative research about journalists that will be useful to those interested in doing their own studies...

The Life of Voices

2013-05-16T13:09:10Q

The Life of Voices illustrates how human voices have special significance as the place where mind and body collaborate to produce everyday speech. Hannah Rockwell links Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of dialogue with French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s views of the relation between bodies and speech expression to develop a unique theory of communication and bodies.

Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

2013-05-16T12:59:30Q

This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and future research in the area. It emphasizes the postcolonial perspective in order to raise critical consciousness about the complexities of intercultural communication in a globalizing world, situating cosmopolitanism—the notion of global citizenship—as a multilayered lens for research.

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.

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