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The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media
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.
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Promotional Culture and Convergence
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.
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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.
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The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture
Do you need a guide to the methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising?
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The Casting Handbook
Casting is a crucial creative element of any production - and yet the craft and skills needed to put together a successful and exciting cast are oftentimes overlooked. The Casting Handbook explains the casting process from beginning to end and covers everything producers and directors needs to know – as well as proving a fascinating and illuminating read for actors.
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The Mediatization of Culture and Society
Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful for the analysis of how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other social institutions and cultural phenomena like politics, play and religion.
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Specialist Journalism
Edited by Barry Turner and Richard Orange
Combining practical 'how to' skills with reflection on the place of each specialism in the industry, this guide features the skills needed to cover specialist areas, including writing match reports for sport, reviewing the arts, and dealing with complex information for science.
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Locating Television
Zones of Consumption
By Anna Cristina Pertierra and Graeme TurnerLocating Television: Zones of Consumption takes an important next step for television studies: it acknowledges the growing diversity of the international experience of television today in order to address the question of ‘what is television now?’
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Print Culture
From Steam Press to Ebook
By Frances RobertsonWith the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan.
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The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film
Edited by Ian Aitken
The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary movie from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004).Read more...
