Media & Communication
Matthew Arnold's The Church of Brou
Citizen Voices
The Social Use of Media
This collection of essays provides an overview of research on the social uses of media. Drawing on long traditions in both cultural studies and the social sciences it brings together competing research approaches usually discussed separately. The topics include up-to-date research on activity and interactivity media use as a social and cultural practice and participation in a cultural political and technological sense. This book explores three general areas of current scholarly study of the social aspects of media use. First the introduction of interactive and so-called social media has had repercussions for the definition of media use reception and even our perception of media effects. Second the recognition that media constitute social practice which utilizes media for its own goals has been highly influential in communication research. Third media provide many opportunities for participation in cultural and political issues. Yet media also shape participation in certain – and sometimes constraining – ways.
European Media Governance
Media Governance today is shifting media rules and regulations from national government policies to local regional national multinational and international ones and away from exclusively governmental domains to others such as market professional and public interest/pressure groups. Many media-related civil society organisations are based in Brussels operate at a European level and influence exactly the part of Media Governance that has escaped the national shackles of the member states. But which are those organizations and who do they represent? Which are the relevant EU regulations for the different media industries that they try to influence? How do they participate in the media related debates in the different EU institutions? What are their major position papers? What is the current state of affairs in the European Media Governance relevant to their industry and what are the future issues that they are trying to tackle early enough at a European level? Finally how are their lobbying efforts coordinated with other political professional and public interest groups?
This book presents the work of ten of these European organizations from a variety of media sectors as well as the relevant work of the European Commission the European Parliament and the European Consumers Association.
Television Courtroom Broadcasting
Signifying Europe
This book systematically and consistently analyses a wide range of symbols for Europe critically interpreting their often contradictory or ambiguous dimensions of meaning and uncovering several astonishing aspects of how Europe is currently identified – from above by the political elites as well as from below in critical arts or everyday life; from the inside by European actors but also from the outside by its surrounding others. The focus is on the European Union's main symbols but they are interpreted in relation to a diverse range of other alternatives so as to uncover the main facets of Europe as it is currently symbolised.
An ePDF version of this book is available for free download from the OAPEN platform: Signifying Europe.
Touring the Screen
Following the success of prominent feature films shot on location including Tolkien’s wildly popular The Lord of the Rings New Zealand boasts an impressive film tourism industry. This book examines the relationship between New Zealand’s cinematic representation—as both a vast expanse of natural beauty and a magical world of fantasy on screen—and its tourism imagery including the ways in which savvy local tourism boards have in recent decades used the country’s film representations to sell New Zealand as a premiere travel destination. Focusing on the films that have had a strong impact on marketing strategies by local tourist boards Touring the Screen will be of interest to all those working and studying in the fields of cinema postcolonial history and tourism studies.
Italian TV Drama and Beyond
Since its inception in the mid-1950s the television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society with a steadily increasing supply of locally produced domestic dramas offering up competing versions of Italian identity. Informed by the nation's rich historical and cultural heritage—as well as a string of notable foreign imports—the narratives discussed here offer much insight into Italian society and highlight the wide array of television programming available outside of Britain and the United States.
Trends in Communication Policy Research
Signifying Europe
This book systematically and consistently analyses a wide range of symbols for Europe critically interpreting their often contradictory or ambiguous dimensions of meaning and uncovering several astonishing aspects of how Europe is currently identified – from above by the political elites as well as from below in critical arts or everyday life; from the inside by European actors but also from the outside by its surrounding others. The focus is on the European Union's main symbols but they are interpreted in relation to a diverse range of other alternatives so as to uncover the main facets of Europe as it is currently symbolised.
An ePDF version of this book is available for free download from the OAPEN platform: Signifying Europe.
China's Environment and China's Environment Journalists
Environmental issues are of growing concern in China with numerous initiatives aimed at encouraging dialogue and increasing awareness. And key to these initiatives is the environmental journalist. The first English-language study of this burgeoning field this book investigates Chinese environmental journalists – their methodologies their attitudes toward the environment and their views on the significance of their work – and concludes that most respond enthusiastically to government promptings to report on the environment and climate change. Additional chapters demonstrate journalists’ impact in helping to shape governmental decision-making.
People's Pornography
Since its establishment in 1949 the People's Republic of China has upheld a nationwide ban on pornography imposing harsh punishments on those caught purchasing producing or distributing materials deemed a violation of public morality. A provocative contribution to Chinese media studies by a well-known international media researcher People’s Pornography offers a wide-ranging overview of the political controversies surrounding the ban as well as a fascinating glimpse into the many distinct media subcultures that have gained widespread popularity on the Chinese Internet as a result. Rounding out this exploration of the many new tendencies in digital citizenship pornography and activist media cultures in the greater China region are thought-provoking interviews with individuals involved.
A timely contribution to the existing literature on sexuality Chinese media and Internet culture People’s Pornography provides a unique angle on the robust voices involved in the debate over about pornography’s globalization.Radio Content in the Digital Age
The traditional radio medium has seen significant changes in recent years as part of the current global shift toward multimedia content with both digital and FM making significant use of new technologies including mobile communications and the Internet. This book focuses on the important role these new technologies play—and will play as radio continues to evolve. This series of essays by top academics in the field examines new options for radio technology as well as a summary of the opportunities and challenges that characterize academic and professional debates around radio today.
New Zealand Film and Television
Despite challenges arising from a limited population and the difficulty of obtaining adequate funding both the film and television industries of New Zealand have been the source of significant achievements and profound cultural influence. Charting their emergence and subsequent development through five decades New Zealand Film and Television looks at these two increasingly vibrant cultural and creative industries. While there is a growing body of academic work on film and television in New Zealand relatively little exists that examines the specific cultural concerns local industries institutions and policies involved which this book addresses in full.
Urban Cinematics
Urban Cinematics surveys the mechanisms by which cinema contributes to our understanding of cities to address two key issues: How do filmmakers make use of urban spaces and how do urban spaces make use of cinema? Merging the disciplines of architecture landscape design and urban planning with film studies this book explores the potential of cinema as a tool to investigate the communal narratives of cities. A series of dialogues with filmmakers rounds out this insightful and methodologically innovative volume.
Media and Participation
Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy arts development spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies also show participation’s close connection to power identity organization technology and quality.
Open Access version of this book is available at this link: Media and Participation
Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics
In recent years celebrities from George Clooney to Bono to Angelina Jolie have attempted to play an increasingly important role in global politics. Celebrity activism is an ever-growing internationally visible phenomenon—yet the impact of these high-profile humanitarians on public awareness government support and mobilization of resources remains under-researched. Bringing together a diverse group of contributors from media studies and public diplomacy Transnational Celebrity Activism in Global Politics aims to fill that void with a new interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of celebrity activism in international relations.
The Mobile Nation
The Mobile Nation
New Zealand Cinema
New Zealand has produced one of the world’s most vibrant film cultures a reflection of the country’s evolving history and the energy and resourcefulness of its people. From early silent features like The Te Kooti Trail to recent films such as River Queen this book examines the role of the cinema of New Zealand in building a shared sense of national identity. The works of key directors including Peter Jackson Jane Campion and Vincent Ward are here introduced in a new light and select films are given in-depth coverage. Among the most informative accounts of New Zealand’s fascinating national cinema this will be a must for film scholars around the globe.
'I am an American'
Far more than a mere remembrance book about September 11 ‘I am an American’ offers precisely the kind of ground-level empathy needed to reignite a meaningful national debate about who we are and who we might become as a people and a nation.
Europe in Black and White
The essays in Europe in Black and White offer new critical perspectives on race immigration and identity on the Old Continent. In reconsidering the various forms of encounters with difference such as multiculturalism and hybridity the contributors address a number of issues including the cartography of postcolonial Europe its relation to the production of "difference" and "race" and national and identity politics and their dependence on linguistic practices inherited from imperial times. Featuring scholars from a wide variety of nationalities and disciplinary areas this collection will speak to an equally wide readership.
Media in Europe Today
Media in Europe Today provides a comprehensive overview of European media in its current state of transformation. Through a focus on specific European media sectors it assesses the impact of new technologies across industries and addresses a wide range of practices strategies and challenges facing European media today. The Euromedia Research Group has more than twenty years of experience in the observation of trends affecting media today and this book marks the strong continuation of that long tradition.
Global Technological Change
This updated second edition of Global Technological Change reconsiders how we make and use technology in the twenty-first century. With human-centered "soft technology" driving machine-based "hard technology" in ever more complex ways Zhouying Jin provides an understanding of the human dimension of technological advancement. Through a theoretical framework that incorporates elements of both Eastern and Western philosophy she offers insight into the dynamic between the two as it relates to a variety of technological innovation. More relevant than ever Global Technological Change continues to challenge assumptions about technology and the gap between the developed and developing countries in the twenty-first century.
Unmapping the City
Unmapping the City the first title in the new Intellect series Critical Photography features photographs shot between 2004 and 2008 in different cities around the world. The images are linked by their shared attempts to define a two-dimensional approach to a three-dimensional built reality and to address spatial representation ritual and urbanity through art. In representing the cityscape through a flat texture of lines and bold colors the reader is drawn into a conversation about the interplay between reality and its representation. This volume significantly challenges and expands the critical discourse on photography and text and will be of interest to artists curators photographers architects and critical theorists.
The Propaganda of Peace
When political opponents Ian Paisley and Martin McGuiness were confirmed as First Minister and Deputy First Minister of a new Northern Ireland executive in May 2007 a chapter was closed on Northern Ireland’s troubled past. A dramatic realignment of politics had brought these irreconcilable enemies together – and the media played a significant role in persuading the public to accept this startling change. The Propaganda of Peace places their role in a wider cultural context and examines a broad range of factual and fictional representations from journalism and public museum exhibitions to film television drama and situation comedy. The authors propose a radically different theoretical and methodological approach to the media’s role in reporting and representing. They ask whether the ‘propaganda of peace’ actually promotes the abandonment of a politically engaged public sphere at the very moment when public debate about neo-liberalism financial meltdown and social and economic inequality make it most necessary.
Reinventing Public Service Television for the Digital Future
Once regarded as a system in decline public service broadcasters have acquired renewed legitimacy in the digital environment as drivers of digital take-up innovators and trusted brands. Exploring this remarkable transformation Reinventing Public Service Television for the Digital Future engages with the new opportunities and challenges facing public service media outlining the ways in which interactive technologies are now expanding the delivery of diverse goals and enhancing public accountability. Drawing on 50 interviews with media industry and academic specialists from four countries this seminal work explores the constraints and possibilities of the public service system and its prospects for continued survival in the age of on-demand media.
Searching for Art's New Publics
Drawing on contributions from practicing artists writers curators and academics Searching for Art’s New Publics explores the ways in which artists seek to involve create and engage with new and diverse audiences—from passers-by encountering and participating in the work unexpectedly to professionals from other disciplines and members of particular communities who bring their own agendas to the work. Bridging the gap between practice and theory this exciting book touches on issues of relational aesthetics but also offers an illustrated artist-based approach. Searching for Art’s New Publics will appeal to students studying fine art (especially those with an interest in cross-disciplinary work and public art) and those studying curating.
Digital Radio in Europe
Radio the oldest form of electronic broadcasting has thus far lagged behind TV in the push to go digital but efforts have been underway for over twenty years in Europe to create digital platforms for radio. Drawing on extensive cross-national research this volume offers the first comprehensive review of European digital radio with details on the technologies policies and strategies to bring radio into the digital era—and highlights the successes and failures in implementation. An accessible introduction for students and professionals this volume presents digital radio broadcasting in both a European and global context.
Confronting Theory
Confronting Theory presents a critique of what has come to be known as theory in cross-disciplinary humanities education. Rather than dismissing theory writing as pretentious and abstract Confronting Theory examines its principal concepts from the perspective of academic psychology and shows that although many of these analyses sound like revolutionary psychological theory few if any have empirical implications that students can evaluate. By considering the educational implications of cultural theory Confronting Theory will empower students with arguments not just opinions about the increasingly idealist and irrelevant anti-realist curricula they confront in their humanities education in today’s universities.
Developing Dialogues
The audience-producer boundary has collapsed in indigenous and ethnic community broadcasting and this is the first comprehensive study globally to chart the rise of its new relationship. Based on studies of radio and television audiences in Australia the authors argue that community radio and television worldwide represents an essential service for indigenous and ethnic audiences empowering them at various levels fostering ‘active citizenry’ and enhancing the processes of democracy. The authors former journalists spent months on the road travelling tens of thousands of kilometers from urban centres to the most remote regions of the Central Desert to ask why they engage with and adapt local broadcast media. They draw on two decades of primary research material taken from face-to-face interviews and focus-group discussions with audiences. Consequently Developing Dialogues offers international researchers a new social cultural and historical perspective on the emergence of the unique Australian community broadcasting sector within the context of other global trends. It will appeal to scholars of media and cultural studies as well as to industry practitioners and policy makers.
TV Formats Worldwide
Beginning around 2003 the growth of interest in the genre of reality shows has dominated the field of television studies. However concentrating on this genre has tended to sideline the even more significant emergence of the program format as a central mode of business and culture in the new television landscape. TV Formats Worldwide redresses this balance and heralds the emergence of an important exciting and challenging area of television studies. Topics explored include reality TV makeover programs sitcoms talent shows and fiction serials as well as broadcaster management policies production decision chains and audience participation processes. This seminal work will be of considerable interest to media scholars worldwide.
Media, Markets and Public Spheres
Using a sample of European newspapers and their TV listings as a stepping stone Media Markets and Public Spheres presents an overview of changes in European public spheres over the last fifty years. With in-depth analyses of structural changes in press and broadcasting changing relations between media and changes in media policies this book explores how and why the media decisively influence most aspects of society. Media Markets and Public Spheres will be useful to students in media and communication studies and European studies as well as for those studying sociology and political science.
New Irish Storytellers
With the success of such films as the Oscar winner Once Irish film has been getting well-deserved international attention recently. New Irish Storytellers examines storytelling techniques and narrative strategies in contemporary Irish film. Revealing defining patterns within recent Irish cinema this book explores connections between Irish cinematic storytellers and their British and American colleagues. Díóg O’Connell traces the creative output of Irish filmmakers today back to 1993 the year the Irish Film Board was reactivated reinvigorating film production after a hiatus of seven years. Reflecting on this key and distinctive era in Irish cinema this book explores how film gave expression to tensions and fissures in the new Ireland.
Three Myths of Internet Governance
The Internet is a global medium that defies and sometimes even replaces established media yet ideas about it are largely biased by a U.S. perspective. This book draws on European and African examples to challenge three established myths about the Internet: that the market can decide its future path; that the Internet is different from “legacy” media; and that national governance is unimportant. Based on extensive empirical research (including interviews and participant observation in international governance at a United Nations World Summit) Three Myths of Internet Governance will appeal to media studies scholars and students policy makers and regulators.
European Journalism Education
This book is the first comprehensive directory of the journalism education and training offered in thirty-three European countries. The volume organized by country discusses the history of journalism education and includes an analysis of all the current university programs and training provided by private media and professional organizations in each location. In addition each section includes a thorough examination of the historical political economic and social framework of journalism in each country that looks towards the future of journalism education and media in Europe. European Journalism Education will be an asset to scholars of international communication studies and to media policy makers around the world.
New Flows in Global TV
Harm and Offence in Media Content
Children and teenagers are often the first to adopt new media technologies and parents and policy makers continue to be concerned about the widespread use of diverse media and its potential effects on young people. Harm and Offence in Media Content presents a significant and comprehensive analysis of the benefits and dangers posed by both established and emergent technologies. Newly updated this balanced critical account examines all media including interactive games social networking and mobile phones. Many examples specifically focus on the United States noting the ways in which young people are using new technologies and the partnerships this has given rise to between state governments media regulators and Internet service providers. This informative guide to a controversial field of study will be a useful resource for scholars in media communication psychology sociology and education.
Press Freedom and Pluralism in Europe
Media in the Enlarged Europe
The EU is in a constant state of flux: its constitution its institutions and especially its political economic and regulatory borders. Media in the Enlarged Europe deals with the complexity and instability of the European Union and its relationship with the mass media looking beyond national and cultural boundaries. This compilation also views the mass media not only in its more traditional senses but looks at newer media technologies and their applications.The recurring theme that binds the diverse papers in this collection is the relationship between European media industries and their social political economic and legislative contexts. The first part of the collection offers a snapshot of media politics policies industries and cultures in the European Union as a whole; the second part presents comprehensive case studies of the history and current state of the mass media in specific European nations making Media in the Enlarged Europe an essential resource for media academics and students.
Media, Democracy and European Culture
Media Democracy and European Culture presents some of the most recent cutting edge research on Europe from social political and cultural perspectives equally focusing on each dimension of democracy in Europe. The role of the media communication policy and the question of how the media report on Europe runs as a thread through all contributions. The book is interdisciplinary and international. It brings together researchers from many countries and from humanities social sciences and law. The articles combine the discussion of central theories and theoretical concepts for the understanding of media democracy and European culture with empirical data and comparative analytical studies of media culture and democracy across Europe. The book is written by some of the most prominent European Scholars in media political science sociology and cultural studies.
Public Spheres After Socialism
The concept of a public sphere has traditionally been associated with urban spaces. Public Spheres After Socialism contests this in light of shifts of perspective in the East and West after the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union.Public Spheres After Socialism draws together contemporary experiences from Armenia - an interesting site of cultural and political cross-currents - Germany Austria France and the United Kingdom. It reconsiders the concept of a public sphere as a figurative or mythical location in which the members of a society shape and determine its values and ask to what extent this public sphere exists or is viable today. Among the ideas presented in this groundbreaking volume are the cultures of public time everyday memorials urban reconstruction film as a dialogic site and the mapping of a post-socialist city in youth culture.Esteemed academics cover a wide range of issues including public spaces and monuments urban reconstruction film new media and communication. They explore the major shifts in theory and consider how the dualism of the Cold War has been replaced by the single ideological position of globalized consumerism.
European Media Governance
Media Governance today is shifting media rules and regulations from national government policies to local regional national multinational and international ones and away from exclusively governmental domains to others such as market professional and public interest/pressure groups. Many media-related civil society organisations are based in Brussels operate at a European level and influence exactly the part of Media Governance that has escaped the national shackles of the member states. But which are those organizations and who do they represent? Which are the relevant EU regulations for the different media industries that they try to influence? How do they participate in the media related debates in the different EU institutions? What are their major position papers? What is the current state of affairs in the European Media Governance relevant to their industry and what are the future issues that they are trying to tackle early enough at a European level? Finally how are their lobbying efforts coordinated with other political professional and public interest groups?
This book presents the work of ten of these European organizations from a variety of media sectors as well as the relevant work of the European Commission the European Parliament and the European Consumers Association.
Media and Values
European Media Governance
A multitude of factors affect how the European media industry is governed including commercialisation concentration convergence and globalisation. George Terzis’ collection European Media Governance is the first volume to concentrate on analysing and explaining how European countries are slowly conceding control of the media from the government to the market professional and public forces.
This impressive volume provides a detailed examination of all aspects of media governance including media ownership structures government policies citizen’s organisations and union’s accountability systems for 32 European countries. European Media Governance includes recent research into technological developments and provides sources for more information in each country. In addition to this incredibly diverse scale of research and analysis the book provides a companion website with regular updates. Terzis’ European Media Governance addresses all aspects of media governance in Europe reflecting contemporary developments in both the countries analysed and their media creating a comprehensive and reliable source.
Truth or Dare
Convergence and Fragmentation
Switching to Digital Television
Media Between Culture and Commerce
In the face of declining newspaper sales challenges from online competitors and flagging ratings for broadcast news programs media companies have struggled to maintain their relevance. Media between Culture and Commerce brings together a group of European media experts to address the consequences of a system that is increasingly powered by global media conglomerates that set the pace of news and information. As national borders blur and the corporations behind journalism and broadcasting continue to merge this timely volume will prove a necessary resource to those interested in European media studies and globalization.
Broadcasters and Citizens in Europe
European media is experiencing a paradoxical form of growth: as media outlets surge and new technologies develop major broadcasting companies are consolidating like never before. In Broadcasters and Citizens in Europe an esteemed group of contributors look at what this paradox might mean for the European community. Are broadcasting audiences better informed than they were twenty years ago? And how has the advent of the European Union changed media practices? This essential volume explores a new media world in the context of a continent in flux.
“The book is a good source of information about institutional arrangements developed in European countries in the field of audio-visual policy. It gives an interesting and well-written account of how particular European countries and the European Union try to deal with different problems deriving from the ethical dilemma inscribed in the construction of media systems.”—Magdalena Rek Journal of Contemporary European Studies “Communication scholars will benefit from the focus on research from across Europe along with the theoretical implications. For media policy-makers and members of civic organisations the taxonomy of instruments will provide an overview for possible policy development. Finally the clarity with which this book is written will help college students understand the field of media and social responsibility.”— Jarim Kim Media International Australia