Media and Society: Power, Platforms, and Participation (Carah Nicholas)(Paperback)

The Social Media Age (Sujon Zoetanya)(Paperback)

Exploring power and participation in a connected world. Social media are all around us. For many, they are the first things to look at upon waking and the last thing to do before sleeping. Integrated seamlessly into our private and public lives, they entertain, inform, connect (and sometimes

Media and Society (Curran James)(Paperback)

Media and Society is an established textbook, popular worldwide for its insightful and accessible essays from leading international academics on the most pertinent issues in the media field today. With this updated edition, David Hesmondalgh joins James Curran and a leading team of international

Social Media: Communication, Sharing and Visibility (Meikle Graham)(Paperback)

Social media platforms have captured the attention and imagination of many millions of people, enabling their users to develop and display their creativity, to empathize with others, and to find connection, communication and communion. But they are also surveillance systems through which those

Educating Educators with Social Media (Wankel Charles)(Paperback)

Social media are increasingly popular platforms for collaboration and quick information sharing. This volume is a collection of reports on how these technologies are being used to educate educators with social media in creative and effective ways. Social networking technologies enable the

Goodfellas (Pileggi Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

Presents the story of Henry Hill's life as a gangster and notorious participation in the Witness Protection

Transmedia Directors: Artistry, Industry and New Audiovisual Aesthetics (Vernallis Carol)(Paperback)

Transmedia Directors focuses on artist-practitioners who work across media, platforms and disciplines, including film, television, music video, commercials and the internet. Working in the age of media convergence, today's em/impresarios project a distinctive style that points toward a new

The Language, Society and Power Reader (Mooney Annabelle)(Paperback)

The Language, Society and Power Reader is the definitive reader for students studying introductory modules in language and society. Highly user-friendly, this wide-ranging collection of key readings introduces students to the thoughts and writings of major writers working within the area of

Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media (Woolley Samuel C.)(Paperback)

Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive,

New Media and Society (Rohlinger Deana a.)(Paperback)

A sociological approach to understanding new media's impact on society We use cell phones, computers, and tablets to access the Internet, read the news, watch television, chat with our friends, make our appointments, and post on social networking sites. New media provide the backdrop for most of

Public Relations, Society and the Generative Power of History (Somerville Ian)(Paperback)

Public Relations, Society and the Generative Power of History examines how histories are used to explore how the past is constructed from the present, how the present is always historical, and how both past and present can power imagined futures.Divided into three distinct parts, the book uses

The Media Matrix of Early Jewish and Christian Narrative (Elder Nicholas)(Paperback)

Generically, theologically, and concerning content, Mark and Joseph and Aseneth are quite different. The former is a product of the nascent Jesus movement and influenced by the Greco-Roman Bioi ('Lives'). It details the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of a wandering Galilean. The latter is

Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians, and Power in Society (Arditi David)(Paperback)

Women in Politics and Media (Raicheva-Stover Maria)(Paperback)

Although women constitute half of the world's population, their participation in the political sphere remains problematic. While existing research on women politicians from the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada sheds light on the challenges and opportunities they face, we still have a

Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation - Lessons from Africa (Poole Nigel)(Paperback / softback)

Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation discusses the evolution of policies for smallholder development, including the role of value chains. Newer, innovative financial mechanisms and linked initiatives are outlined, and their potential to improve the availability of financial services and

Cruciform Scripture: Cross, Participation, and Mission (Skinner Christopher W.)(Paperback)

The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power (Chadwick Andrew)(Paperback)

New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new power players? The Hybrid Media System is a sweeping new theory of how political communication now works. Politics is increasingly defined by organizations, groups, and individuals who are best able to blend older

Digital Media and Society: Transforming Economics, Politics and Social Practices (White A.)(Paperback)

Referencing key contemporary debates on issues like surveillance, identity, the global financial crisis, the digital divide and Internet politics, Andrew White provides a critical intervention in discussions on the impact of the proliferation of digital media technologies on politics, the economy

Designing Cloud Data Platforms (Zburivsky Danil)(Paperback)

In Designing Cloud Data Platforms, Danil Zburivsky and Lynda Partner reveal a six-layer approach that increases flexibility and reduces costs. Discover patterns for ingesting data from a variety of sources, then learn to harness pre-built services provided by cloud vendors. Summary Centralized data

Media, Culture and Society: An Introduction (Hodkinson Paul)(Paperback)

′In his beautifully balanced, clear and broad-ranging account of a fast-changing field, Paul Hodkinson has successfully brought together myriad perspectives with which to critically analyse today′s media culture and media society.′- Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Media & Communication, LSE

Brave (Evans Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

Nicholas Evans's most powerful and ambitious novel

The Mediated Construction of Reality: Society, Culture, Mediatization (Couldry Nick)(Paperback)

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their classic text The Social Construction of Reality, two leading sociologists of media, Nick Couldry and Andreas Hepp,

RHS Fruit and Veg Box - Planting and Harvesting to Cooking and Preserving (Royal Horticultural Society (DK Rights) (DK IPL))(Mixed media product)

Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries (Evans David S.)(Paperback)

American Film and Society Since 1945 (Quart Leonard)(Paperback)

One of the few authoritative books about American film and society, American Film and Society since 1945 combines accessible, fun-to-read text with a detailed, insightful, and scholarly political and social analysis that thoroughly explores the relationship of American film to society and provides